Coincidence?

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Commenter Mike– who gets the distinguished honor of being the first person to leave a non-spam comment here at TWP– caught a mistake in my Republican Debate Rankings.  I stated: Mike Huckabee – Scored points for honesty by being the only candidate to note that Americans are worse off now than they were eight years ago [...]

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The big winner of tonight’s Los Angeles debate was the Democratic Party.  Overall, a substantive and appropriately cordial debate, which benefited both candidates.  Barack Obama’s graciousness throughout put a damper on ”The Snub” from earlier in the week, and he wisely avoided any “You’re likeable enough” moments as well.  He even went so far as to hold Hillary Clinton’s chair for [...]

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This was the first debate I’ve watched using CNN’s online real-time reaction tracker.  It’s a graph from 1 to 100 that shows you how people are reacting, positively or negatively (100 being absolute positive, 1 being absolute negative), toward what a candidate is saying, and it’s pretty amazing.  The Politico– CNN’s partner in the debate– [...]

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