Big props & appreciation to Rachel Maddow for doing such a great job...

[one_voice]

tonight. She was great with our candidates and I couldn't be prouder of them.

Way to go Dems!

[Spazito]

1. She did a very good job...

This format works well for all the candidates, they get to give full answers without interruption from the other candidates.

[RKP5637]

2. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[cilla4progress]

3. Great

Dem candidates

[dreamnightwind]

4. Meh she did ok

Her premise was that she wanted to make more evident the differences between our candidates. I didn't feel like she really accomplished that.

Hillary paid no real price for her involvement in TPP, her support of H1-Bs, her more hawkish and interventionist approach to foreign policy, her support of corporate policies, her attempts to obscure her RW and corporate allegiances by tacking left in the primaries and moving back right in the general.

Plenty of other such issues I am leaving out. IMHO she and Bernie are vastly different candidates, but I wouldn't really get that from either the first debate or from this event.

[Eric J in MN]

5. Rachel Maddow's one mistake tonight was about Amtrak.

She said to Bernie Sanders that if people bring guns in checked bags on an Amtrak train then they have access to the guns on the train.

Actually, passengers don't have access to checked luggage on a train. That's what makes checked luggage different from carry-on.

[edgineered]

8. Bernie, knowing a losing point, simply re-stated that

Amtrak was the same as the airlines. That put it back to Rachel; she too was wise enough to drop it.

[JonLeibowitz]

10. Thank you! I was doubting my own memory of the research I had done on that issue.

Way to go Bernie.

[mcar]

6. She was terrific

Substantive, fair, challenging questions and time for the candidates to answer them. I'd love to see her moderate a Repub debate.

[Chemisse]

7. She did a great job.

I liked the format. It could've been dull, but she did well with it.

[chillfactor]

9. Rachel was a great moderator....

heads above all of the idiot moderators that preceded her. Too bad she cannot moderate a rethug debate....she would slaughter them!

I also liked this format..each candidate could express their points succinctly w/o interruption from Rachel or other candidates.

I am so proud of all of our candidates.....so unlike the clown car candidates.

[Uncle Joe]

11. I thought Rachel did a good job.

Thanks for the thread, one_voice.

[Lifelong Protester]

12. I believe Rachel did a good job.

This format, with candidates able to give full answers, was a good one.

[sorechasm]

13. Great Job Rachel Maddow!

All three candidates were both Personable and Presidential because of Rachel's skill at bringing out the best of each. Plus she did project a series of new and unexpected questions demanding that each think outside the stump and expose what drives them to want such an unforgiving, and unrewarding job.

[DianeK]

14. I agree

Rachel did a great respectful job to all candidates!

[99th_Monkey]

15. I could quibble re sequencing the candidates according to polls, but I won't. K&R

Always giving front-runners in poll the center stage or last word, could be
improved upon by just doing it by lots or coin toss; but hey, I don't feel
like it's that big a deal, so I'm giving a big K&R.

Kudos to Hillary for not exploiting the last-word thing too.

[longship]

16. Yet another positive GD:P thread to support.

A refreshing difference.

Go Democrats!


Note: I did not see the forum, no way to do it. But with all these great threads I wish I had a way to do so.

R&K