1. Sanders 2. O'Malley 3. Clinton

[reformist2]

Hillary started out strong, but couldn't withstand the tag-teaming by Sanders and O'Malley on several issues. By the end of the debate, Hillary was "on the ropes." Her worst moment (by far) was when she invoked 9/11! and women! to distract from the idea that she may be compromised by all those Wall Street donations.

[valerief]

1. CBS did a good job. nt

[840high]

2. Agree.

[Fearless]

3. Agreed.

[restorefreedom]

4. yes. nt

[Robbins]

5. I agreed with this

exactly how i would rank them tonight.

[azmom]

6. Agree.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. I thought it was a good debate,

and that they each did well. Of course, we look at these things through the lens of our own particular biases and viewpoints. I won't say anything negative about any of them. Each is infinitely preferable to any of Republican clowns.

[reformist2]

12. I do agree with that. I even warmed to Hillary, just a little.

[malokvale77]

43. Weird...

I became more disgusted with her.

The more I see and or hear Hillary, the more I am repelled.

[Thespian2]

63. Been feeling that way since

Ol' Bill was screwing Americans...

[malokvale77]

66. There with you. nt

[Enthusiast]

80. I know. I feel sad to think that. Can't help it.

[XemaSab]

103. I remember the 90s

and I'm with you 100%.

[bvar22]

95. And THAT is exactly WHY DWS/DNC are limiting the few debates

...to time periods when no one will be watching.
They handlers KNOW that the more people see & hear Hillary talk, the less they like her.
The only way for her to win is to hide her from the people,
or only let her appear at scripted events.

[MissDeeds]

98. Same here

"The more I see and or hear Hillary, the more I am repelled."

This may be why DWS has scheduled so few debates.

[relayerbob]

62. Agreed. All way better than the GOPpers

I can't imagine how insane things would be if one of the clowns was President right now. They'd probably start bombing Iran just because

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. I concur!

That was a fantastic debate! Bernie finally called Hillary out on her IWR vote, her Wall St. Connections and Glass-Steagall. She lost big.

Invoking 911 and the gender card in one sentence when asked about WALL St.! How pathetic and predictable.

[7962]

114. You cant be surprised. The gender card is all HERS; she's gonna play it!!

We knew this from the start when all were warned that using any adjective to describe Her would be called out as sexist

[pa28]

9. Can't decide which of her responses to Wall Street influence peddling was worse.

Was it invoking 911 or playing the gender card?

If anybody wondered what really gets under her skin I think we all know now.

[JimDandy]

10. She lost her composure several times

something unexpected when she was practically handed a foreign policy gift horse for a debate subject.

[passiveporcupine]

30. Boy did she.

At one point I thought she was going to spit she was so mad at Bernie. She got it under control pretty quickly, but it wasn't a pretty sight.

[floriduck]

90. And Bernie mentioned "shouting"

and added a caveat that he was not referring to Hill. Lol, it just made her victim thing deflate.

[askew]

76. She was visibly rolling her eyes and glaring at O'Malley. Bad form.

[JimDandy]

78. Yes, that was the worst incident. Reminiscent of cartoons

where steam shoots out of the character's ears. And you could hear an audible gasp from the audience when she told Sanders that he was trying to impugn her character. I bet former staffers of hers would have tales to tell of her temper.

[askew]

79. That kind of eye rolling, glaring, etc. cost her dearly in debates against Obama.

I think O'Malley came off very presidential tonight. Bernie is Bernie. He's gruff and shouts but is never rude or dismissive. And I thought he got under Hillary's skin a couple of times with being so overly gracious to her in an obvious counter to Hillary's team calling him out for being sexist after the last event.

[7962]

115. That seems to be a habit. She even did that during the hearings

Remember the head bobbing back and forth? Even it the scene is a joke, you're supposed to appear to take it seriously

[askew]

120. Exactly. O'Malley and Sanders need to exploit this weakness. Get her to lose her temper

at the next debate. That is one of Obama's greatest political talents, to get his opponents to get angry enough to do something stupid.

[7962]

122. I agree! But Sanders has been SO reluctant to really press her.

He's mostly been running this campaign like its a friendly card game in the garage. If he really wants to win, he has to showpeople why SHE is NOT the choice to make while he also points out why HE is.

[askew]

123. That's one of the reasons I think Sanders has already reached his peak in polling.

He hasn't been able to grow his support by talking about other issues. His answer on Paris in the debate being the primary example. He spent 10 seconds on Paris and then pivoted to his same stump speech. And he refuses to attack Hillary's positions. Totally frustrating.

[7962]

125. I agree.

[Jarqui]

11. Haven't found many polls

Here's what I've found so far:

TIME
http://time.com/4110860/democratic-debate-poll-who-won/
Sanders 85%
Clinton 11%
O'Malley 4%

CBS Local
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/11/14/poll-who-do-you-think-won-the-second-democratic-presidential-debate/
Sanders 94%
Clinton 3%
O'Malley 3%

http://www.enstarz.com/articles/119894/20151114/who-won-democratic-debate-did-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-or-martin-omalley-impress-you-poll.htm
Sanders 87%
Clinton 8%
O'Malley 4%

Slate
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/11/democratic_presidential_debate_who_won_vote_in_our_poll.html
Sanders 73%
Clinton 19%
O'Malley 4%

Syracuse.com
http://www.syracuse.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/11/poll_who_won_saturdays_democratic_2016_presidential_debate.html
Sanders 85%
Clinton 11%
O'Malley 4%

Clean sweep so far by Bernie - handily. He smoked Hillary if those results hold up. Great place to do it - in Iowa - where he needed it most.

[MannyGoldstein]

16. So what? Sanders won all the polls last debate,

but lost the debate big time.

What do you mean, that doesn't make sense?

[pnwmom]

22. Correction: he won non-scientific focus groups and online surveys.

He didn't win representative polls with a large number of respondents drawn in random samples from registered voters.

[LovingA2andMI]

51. How do we know?

Since these registered voters have not been polled yet, about the debate?

[pnwmom]

55. We were talking about the first debate -- not this one. It's too early to see any polls

about this one yet.

[Quackers]

67. Play nice, Manny.

Lol

[Catherina]

24. Thanks for these and welcome to DU.

And please take my friend MannyGoldstein's comment below with a grain of salt. He's teasing you lol.

[MissDeeds]

38. Go Bernie!!!!

Thanks Jarqui! Welcome to DU!

[dflprincess]

56. I'm surprised O'Malley's number don't look better

Of course, I agree with the way the OP ranked the candidates.

[appalachiablue]

69. Awesome, 'smoked' is right!

[Enthusiast]

81. Far out!

[Duval]

13. Agree.

[SCantiGOP]

14. Last place

The OP

[UglyGreed]

15. I agree

also my wife and I were glad to see someone else get the last word this time. I tip my hat to CBS

[riderinthestorm]

17. Yup. Agreed nt

[spooky3]

18. According to CBS (reported near the end of the debate), she received her HIGHEST spike in approval

for what you are calling her "worst moment."

[Robbins]

23. I can't see how people can defend that

it was terrable.

[reformist2]

28. Yes. It's called geting cheap applause. And it's what those boob-o-meters measure best.

[Catherina]

29. In "approval" or social media mentions?

We were laughing our ass off at her. A ton of the tweets that registered as Hillary were Bernie folks mocking her and also the stunned disbelief that she invoked 9-11 as an excuse for her Wall Street contributions.

[malokvale77]

61. No kidding?

Who doesn't know that Wall Street prompted what happened on September 11, 2001.

I'm glad to see that she owns it.

[LovingA2andMI]

54. Worst Moment....

Have never seen a candidate justify 9/11 for taking Wall Street Donations? --- TWITTER QUESTION posted at Hillary!
She could not answer the question. Period!

[passiveporcupine]

91. It always pisses me off

When a candidate is asked a specific question and doesn't answer it...they circle around it and turn it into a campaign propaganda speech that never even touches the question. It's one of the things I most despise about politicians...the inability to actually be honest in a confrontation.

[Dustlawyer]

58. To be technical, if you are referring to the Twitter spike they talked about,

that would not be "Approval," but tweets. I would assume that not all of those tweets were positive though.

As far as Hillary goes, she is a smart, experienced politician and it does show, she hits her marks. Her problem is that not everyone is buying it now. It's just too hard a sell to explain all of the corporate/banking/M.I.C./oil company money! They have been paying her for so long for what then?

Bernie is Bernie

[2pooped2pop]

105. I think they said those spikes were

not good or bad but activity. It was when they had high internet hits but it did not indicate if it was because people liked it or disliked what was said.

[SmittynMo]

19. By far, the best yet

Of all the debates, this was the best(IMO). Excellent questions, well moderated, and then of course, Bernie kicked ass.

[Jack Rabbit]

20. I tend to agree

I thought all three did well, but Hillary stumbled on being indifferent to Wall Street donations (I don't believe her) and her position to Glass-Steagall (she is wrong and provides a reason for my not believing her about the influence of Wall Street donations on her judgment). So I give Mrr. C a respectable but definite third place.

[kristopher]

52. Her complaint about the insult to her integrity rang more than a bit hollow. nt

[malokvale77]

64. She would have to have integrity...

fore her to complain about an attack upon it.

[ejbr]

21. And yet

democrats will say she won.... Just sayin'

[Cassiopeia]

27. No,

A few at DU and most of the media will say that.

Activism will change after this one.

[ejbr]

31. From your mouth

To Allahs ears

[Cassiopeia]

35. I won't accept any false gods.

The FSM will lead us all to the only true salvation.

[ejbr]

37. ? FSM n/t

[Cassiopeia]

40. Flying spaghetti monster.

[ejbr]

41. Ha!

[redwitch]

42. Flying Spaghetti Monster

God of the Pastafarians. Bless His Noodly Appendage.

[snort]

48. And His spicey meatballs.

Ramen.

[Weidman]

53. R'amen, R'amen.

[daleanime]

44. Flying Spaghetti Monster....

[Enthusiast]

82. Through his noodly appendages, Ramen.

Through his noodley appendages, Ramen.

[Cassiopeia]

25. Supported Wall Street 'cause 9/11.

Seriously. W T F

[LovingA2andMI]

57. Worst Moment....

Have never seen a candidate justify 9/11 for taking Wall Street Donations? --- TWITTER QUESTION posted at Hillary!
She could not answer the question. Period!

[Cassiopeia]

59. No, I think that was a brief moment of truth from her.

She wasn't prepared and the truth just rolled right off her tongue.

[LovingA2andMI]

77. Fair Point!

MTS....

[MrMickeysMom]

26. Fucking A... And, HOW could you tell she was disingenuous at that point?

Her LIPS were moving at that point!

[malokvale77]

32. Hell yes, she is compromised.

She's compromised by more than Wall Street. Shes compromised by the fact that she is all about herself and has no feel of us.

[n8dogg83]

33. This was Hillary at the debate tonight...

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?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[jalan48]

46. This pretty much nails it.

[passiveporcupine]

92. Don't forget women

She was so proud that so many women support her.

[gordyfl]

65. Hillary's Wall Street Response

Your video nailed it perfectly!

[Vattel]

34. She was freaking awful. At times, she seemed lost and kind of pissed off.

Too often her little prefab talking points seemed like little prefab talking points. God-given potential, 911 and Wall Street, trying to scare people by saying that Sanders wants to get rid of Medicare--nobody was buying it.

[passiveporcupine]

93. trying to scare people by saying that Sanders wants to get rid of Medicare

I wondered what the fuck she was on about there too. I mean really?

[Plucketeer]

36. DWS is likely

giving Hillary a post-match rubdown in the locker room - telling her what a champ she was!

[AZ Progressive]

39. She did the old Bush / Republican tactic! Invoke 9/11!

[2pooped2pop]

106. she uses a lot of the republican

marketing 101 techniques. Simple soundbites, fear, saying blm names to try to keep that demographic, controlling debate parameters like number of them and poor time slots, though she getd help with party officials on that one, invoking 9/11 and women support, gearing answers according to polling, etc

[zentrum]

45. Agreed.

[jalan48]

47. The unofficial results are in from my household and Bernie is the clearcut winner!

[billhicks76]

49. Her Behavior Is Pathetic

I expect that crap from republicans not democrats. With her its hard to tell the difference. Very unseemly. Amazing to watch lemmings follow her off a cliff when there is a candidate with refreshing views out there as an alternative.

[bjobotts]

68. Hey I'm for Bernie but Hillary still better than any repub

So stop with the demeaning

[Enthusiast]

83. I really wish I could believe that.

I would like to believe it.

But in my heart I know different. It is clear.

It took me years to accept the truth. Now, looking back I can see the entire ruse of the 1990s and how it unfolded. Trust me on this.

Hillary? No.

[billhicks76]

85. The Question Is The Answer

Not my fault some people dont realize how in bed with each other the Bush and Clinton families are. Stop telling people what they can and cannot say about a candidate because it doesnt fit in with YOUR narrative is what I would say to all the Clinton followers who try to censor any criticism. It just makes us bark louder.

[Enthusiast]

86. You said it!

[2pooped2pop]

108. Hillary: Better than a republican!

Vote for me!

[LovingA2andMI]

50. Affirm!!!

And the best thing is the Sanders get to follow up his STRONG performance again tomorrow on CBS --- Face The Nation!

[gordyfl]

60. Hillary Better - First Time Around

First I'd like to say I thought Hillary did the best in the "first debate". She had been in over 20 national debates, and that experience showed. It helped her poll numbers.
I only saw the second half of this debate. Judging from what I saw, I didn't think she did as well this time around.

Bernie did noticeably better this debate than his first, which was his very first national debate. The biggest thing that's been holding Bernie back in poll numbers is his name recognition, or lack of. This debate will help with his name recognition.

I believe O'Malley's poll numbers will go up now. After this debate, he could take a portion of the Joe Biden voters who shifted to Hillary after Biden announced he would not run. He won't take as many voters from Bernie.

That's my guess. We'll have to wait and see the poll numbers.

[JohnnyRingo]

70. Every candidate has to eventually accept corporate money.

...and gobs of it.

How can any presidential candidate run a campaign on nickels and dimes? The eventual democrat will face a republican contender with a nearly billion dollar war chest.

Hoping to fund such a high level campaign on $50 donations from the working class these days is an express ticket to a second place finish. I wish Sanders the best, but saying he'll always eschew corporate money in a run for the White House is short sighted indeed, and that includes panhandling on Wall Street the best he can.

[fbc]

72. Bernie doesn't need private jet money.

He's pulling in more than he can spend.

[JohnnyRingo]

88. This is only the primary

If he can snag the nomination he obviously can't fly coach with his entourage and SS detail. The days of campaigning whistle stops and giving speeches from the caboose of a train have been gone for decades.

How do you imagine Sanders would pay even the media advertising? If he just relies on Facebook and word of mouth, only the devoted left who attends rallies will know who he is, and that can't win against a republican juggernaut with a national TV budget. Barring finance reform, the days of shoestring campaigns are gone forever.

People who believe Sanders will never accept big corporate cash must think he's not going to be the nominee, because one way or another he'll need a billion dollars, and his grassroots donors can't possibly scare up that much cash from couches and cookie jars. He'll need superpacs and corporate friends or he'll go down big.

[passiveporcupine]

94. Just wait

I believe the people will step up for him.

[JohnnyRingo]

97. Well, if you say so

I don't know about you, but I've never been able to send the max donation ($2700) to a presidential candidate and likely never will. In a grassroots campaign he'll need five million people to donate $200 each. That's never happened in history, and he's said himself he hopes for a record 750,000 donors.

I can see why his supporters look to him for economic reform, they'll need to take a second job to get him elected.

[passiveporcupine]

99. Money doesn't always beat votes

You get enough people interested in taking down the system, and you will get the votes, no matter how much the opposition spends. We are going to prove that dirty money does not have to win.

[JohnnyRingo]

100. Just like how Occupy Wall Street took down Bank of America?

It's great to have ideals, but if such noble visions and soft money really translated into hard votes we'd have already enjoyed two terms in office for Ralph Nader.

[passiveporcupine]

102. Not enough people behind Ralph Nader

It sounds like you've accepted defeat. You know the system is wrong and you are still willing to work within it.

I'm discouraged, but certainly not defeated. It's why Bernie speaks to me now. He has always been against the system, and the time is right for him now...many of us are out there just waiting for someone to speak for us. We are so ready to fight.

[2pooped2pop]

107. I don't think he hopes for 750,000 donors.

I think that is what he has now.

[rhett o rick]

113. So all is lost?? Is that what your point is? We are slaves to corp-America so learn

to live with it? There is a movement afoot, not just in the good ole USofA but across the world. People's are starting to stand up for freedom and liberties. We may die fighting but we will not be slaves.

[JohnnyRingo]

116. We need campaign finance reform.

Until we put limits on how much can be spent or how long one can mount a campaign, expect every election to escalate in cost. This has nothing to do with movements or ideals, it's simply the nature of campaigning in a capitalistic society. It takes cash to get the message out and acquaint the voters with the candidate. Word of mouth doesn't work in a country of three hundred million who would prefer watching American Idol than a debate.

Some enthusiastic people may believe that'll all change in the coming months, but that's fantasy. Even if Bernie tries to avoid funding a capable campaign, his republican opponent will not. I wish Sanders well, but if he makes it to the final stretch he'll need superpacs and corporate money. There just isn't enough loose change lying in the grass roots to put him in the White House.

It may be a shame that Warren Buffet and other billionaire liberals can only donate $2700 unless they give it to a Bernie Sanders superpac, but that's the way it is now.

[Duckfan]

71. A wonderfully civil thread and discussion on the debate.

Now Isn't that Special?

I didn't see it, but I'm sure the video will posted here soon.

[Beausoir]

73. HAHA! Sure.

[askew]

74. O'Malley was clear winner to me with the least amount of airtime.

Moderator was really biased and wouldn't let O'Malley talk. Hillary got to interrupt and respond to everything and O'Malley got cut off. Yet, he did the most with the time he got.

1. O'Malley - Specific detailed proposals. Had the moment of the night with his comments on not calling soldiers "boots on the ground". Second moment was when he stood up proudly for Muslim Americans and for strong immigration reform and taking Syrian refugees. He also more than held his own on foreign policy. He also got the best attack moment when he explained Hillary's flip-flop-flip on gun control.

2. Sanders - Thought Sanders had a big miss on his opening statement. But, he really put Hillary on the ropes with Wall Street. He did a good job of setting up the Iraq War criticisms for Hillary and the

3. Hillary - She lost this debate pretty handedly. She tried to take credit for the OBL raid. That credit belongs to Obama who had to alone make the decision. Giving advice isn't even in the same realm. She tried to claim 9/11 was the reason for Wall Street reform. Wow, that was ugly.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

75. At one point they apologized to O'Malley for going to commercial and Hillary laughed....

That was not cool.

[polynomial]

84. Hillary involking 911... thats funny

It’s really funny to characterize Hillary saying she invoked 911 for some economical magical political reason that fell flat. The reality is America’s economic system was paralyzed with indetermination on 911.

The center of the Bond market was in the Twin Towers disrupted, destroyed, and reconfigured by the GOP Republican Guard.

Voila, a convoluting master piece of media and political financial jam up of bailouts in a historical proportion that tapped the Treasury of trillions of dollars with a rampage of media lies.

A new genre of our time solidified on 911 that is supported by a resent apology from British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitting now he knows the Intelligence was compromised, and wrong.

Bush Crime Inc. with American money hatched the new culture of mental political disorder, engaged in war torture and misery called Al-Qaedaisis the natural for the military industrial complex profiteering machine.

Hillary made a vote to war on compromised Intelligence that was fabricated by Bush Crime Inc. That is the fly in the ointment.

It should also be part of the analysis that this whole debate process is more of the Hollywood Roast type, of American Idol sensationalism or just plain liar, liar, pants on fire grade school gaming.

[reformist2]

87. And soon will come the vomit-inducing polls showing it was actually a tie...

[PatrickforO]

89. It was a good debate, albeit held on a Saturday night during football season...

thanks Debbie! It had only 7.22 million viewers when if you'd scheduled it on a week night we could have had 13 million like for the first one.

I think all the candidates did well. I am admittedly biased toward Bernie because I support him.

What was good about the debate is it stuck to issues in spite of a couple of attempts by the media propaganda heads to derail it.

[Auggie]

96. The scheduling was a debacle

Democrats' message needs to be heard by as many fringe voters as possible.

[NorthCarolina]

101. I'm quite sure she was not prepped on that particular line of questioning. Before Bernie, who

in politics ever discussed the corruption in government? Plus he went further making direct connection to the corrupt practice of trading votes for money as commonplace in DC.

I have no doubt the 9-11 reference was simply the first thing that sounded even the least bit plausible in a situation that demands a quick reply. This question and a series of various responses will be focus grouped and she will have a new and improved explanation any day now.

[joeybee12]

104. Apparently some people didn't see the same debate. ..nt

[silvershadow]

109. The third way takes third? Appropriate. nt

[Owl]

110. Absolutely!

[stupidicus]

111. she disgusted me in the 1st hour

apparently her supporters are thrilled with her warmongering justifications, non-support for single-payer, and $12MW.

[SunSeeker]

112. Dem & Ind voters who actually watched the debate have Hillary winning over Bernie by 23 points.

Immediately after Saturday night's Democratic debate, CBS News interviewed a nationally representative sample of debate watchers assembled by GfK's Knowledge Panel who identified themselves as Democrats or independents. By a 23 point margin, these debate watchers say Hillary Clinton won the debate. Fifty-one percent say Clinton won, compared to 28 percent who favor Bernie Sanders. Just 7 percent pick Martin O'Malley as the winner. Fourteen percent called it a tie.

The poll was conducted among a nationwide random sample of 674 voters who identified themselves as Democrat or independent who watched the debate.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/289745699/CBS-News-Poll-Hillary-Clinton-maintains-lead-among-Democrats-after-debate

[Number23]

119. I always know what most Dems think about an issue by just applying the Opposite Rule here on DU

If majorities on DU say ANYTHING about an issue, I know immediately that most Dems feel the exact opposite.

Thanks for what has to be the 1 billionth confirmation of this principle.

[SunSeeker]

121. LOL nt

[BeanMusical]

117. Kick and R

[d_legendary1]

118. That sounds about right.

and rec!

[book_worm]

124. Probably because it was one of the few sensible things he said as president.