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2016 Postmortem

Barack_America

(28,876 posts) Sun Mar 13, 2016, 09:48 PM Mar 2016

Way to phone it in, CNN townhall moderators.

Good Lord, what a waste.

Did they ask a single worthwhile follow-up question of either candidate? They asked Sanders one or two questions in total, did they ask anything of Clinton at all?

Why were they there, other than to introduce people from the audience.

Shameful, shameful "journalism".

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Way to phone it in, CNN townhall moderators. (Original Post) Barack_America Mar 2016 OP

Roland Martin xloadiex Mar 2016 #1

He was awful. nt woolldog Mar 2016 #4

I didn't get to see most of Bernie. grasswire Mar 2016 #2

I thought it was fine BernieforPres2016 Mar 2016 #3

xloadiex

(628 posts)

1. Roland Martin

Reply to Barack_America (Original post)

Sun Mar 13, 2016, 10:09 PM

Mar 2016

seems more suited as a game show host.

woolldog

(8,791 posts)

4. He was awful. nt

Reply to xloadiex (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 13, 2016, 11:24 PM

Mar 2016

grasswire

(50,130 posts)

2. I didn't get to see most of Bernie.

Reply to Barack_America (Original post)

Sun Mar 13, 2016, 11:15 PM

Mar 2016

I did see Hillary, and it appeared to me that many of the questions conveniently allowed her to put to rest to some degree things that people don't like about her. The death penalty. Use of the military. Etc. She was able to rephrase her position on those stumbling blocks

BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)

3. I thought it was fine

Reply to Barack_America (Original post)

Sun Mar 13, 2016, 11:23 PM

Mar 2016

People got to see candidates talk most of the time, which is how I think it should be. The audience questions were good enough to keep the candidates from reciting their talking points and stump speeches verbatim.

We got to see another couple of patented Hillary ad libbed tap dances on the death penalty and fracking, both of which were horrible.

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