Rank the candidates performance from best to worst

[Renew Deal]

1. Best
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5. Least best

[Renew Deal]

1. 1a & b: Hillary and Sanders. 3. O'Malley, 4. Chafee, 5. Webb

Chafee could have been 3, but his "I didn't know what it was" answer put him into last place until Webb talked about killing a guy.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. OK - I'll play

1. Sanders
2. Clinton



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3. O'Malley


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4. Chaffee







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5. Webb

[Renew Deal]

3. I more or less agree

The Webb revenge moment is not good.

[Staph]

4. And the whining about time

makes him sound petulant. America tends to dislike whiners!

[SeattleVet]

5. Agree. Clinton and Sanders pretty much tied at the top...

but Bernie gets extra points for his 'enough with the damn email' email comment. Classy.

Chaffee & O'Malley in a close second; Webb pulling tail-end-charlie - a little too whiney about the time issue, especially when he went over time and refused to stop because he had been waiting.

All of the candidates pretty much stayed on topic, and this one didn't degenerate into anything at all like the circus atmosphere that was the standard of the GOP 'debates'. The country has problems, and these fine people were all helping to bring the discussion to the solutions to those problems, and not ragging on each other, women, minorities, etc.