1. For whatever reason moderators decided to question two candidates and interrupt the 3rd candidate from commenting on his/her point of view. O'Malley got frustrated in the beginning and had to force his way in to get his voice heard.
2. Moderators fought with candidates rather than remain calm and question them. Martha Raddatz is great on her foreign policy issues, and was emotionally invested in the issues, but she needed to remain calm rather than interrupting and at times getting defensive because she didn't like the answer or felt it wasn't answered to her satisfaction. A good moderator knows to breathe and simply state that.
3. Their approach to enforcing the rules was to talk over the candidates so both were talking at once. It was quite simple to turn off the mikes if they wanted to express their need to go on. It was extremely tense, and led to Hilary simply outtalking the moderator while Bernie attempted to raise his hand civilly to make a point and was ignored.
4. The overall time allotted to Clinton appeared to be vastly in her favor compared to O'Malley and even Sanders. At times it was a monologue out there. The distribution of speakers was imbalanced often in the debate.
5. The commercial break analysis was jarring. I like to watch the debate and make my own judgments. The commercial break punditry was in poor taste. Let me make up my own mind. If I want to watch your post debate observations fine, but telling me mid-debate who scored and who didn't was insulting.
6. The pre-show well represented with the DNC views, and the continue reference to Republicans was inappropriate for a Democratic Primary Debate. This was not the general election, this was about who Democrats want for their candidate.
No matter who you wanted to win or liked, the coverage was abysmal.
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