Yes, I think Bernie won and yes, I am surprised NBC admits it. It doesn't make up for the other debates he won, at least in my opinion, that they awarded to Hillary, especially the one that featured her bizarre 9/11 defense of her taking huge sums from Wall Street and expected the voters to think it doesn't influence her. That debate (the second, I believe) was Bernie's most dominant performance of all in the the debates, and Mrs. Clinton's worst.
Mrs. Clinton's tried to defend her critique of Bernie's healthcare plan, but now how hard she spun, it came across as a distinction without a difference. The point still goes to Senator Sanders. It was the Clinton campaign that brought it, and after tonight there is no reason to think that Senator Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare the way the Republicans do. He wants to go beyond it. The whole thing was much ado about nothing. So why did the Clinton campaign bring it us?
Another issue where I think Hillary was weak tonight was her defense of President Obama's record on Wall Street. Dodd-Frank may have been the best banking legislation to pass Congress in a long time, but it's no substitute for reinstating Glass-Steagall and wouldn't have been necessary at all if Gramm-Leach-Bliley in 1999. No one can persuade me that President Obama's response to Wall Street fraud can't be characterized as "weak" when his justice department didn't see fit to bring criminal indictments against any Wall Street executive. Mrs. Clinton said nothing tonight to assuage me of my belief that Wall Street contributions to her presidential campaign, donations to the Clinton Foundations and the exorbitant speaking fees paid by Goldman Sachs to Mrs. Clinton have bought undue influence.
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