From the 538.com liveblog: a surprising appraisal of the debate host site

[nsd]

9:57 PM By the way, a special shout out for an absolutely horrible experience on the campus of Belmont University. I'm not sure I've ever been to a less welcoming place. We hated this campus and the staff here so much that we left to watch the debate at a pizza joint. I don't like to regret things, but it would be hard to overstate how terrible a day this has been, and how crappy every interaction we had in Tennessee was. It was a terrible decision to leave Indiana and come down here. That had to be said for the record.

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[DemFromMem]

1. I apologize on behalf of my home state

I lived in Nashville for years and still go up from Memphis every couple of months and it is generally a very friendly place. I hope Nate gives us another shot one day and visits the state again and has what I would consider a more typical experience.

[LynneSin]

2. But consider this - Obama went into the heart of a Red State and he owned that debate

And I was also impressed with all the Obama supporters outside of where Tweety was broadcasting - all Obama supporters.