Debate chatter
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There’s an important election coming up, and only five will make it. No, not last night’s Democratic debate, which excluded Lawrence Lessig. I’m talking about the “2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominee Fan Vote!” (1047 shares).
Chicago?
Chic? (10th nomination! More than any other band in history.)
Janet Jackson?
Steve Miller?
Nine Inch Nails?
The Smiths?
Yes?
How about N.W.A.? Their recent biopic helps, and as Kanye pointed out, “Rap is the new rock & roll.”
Other, different bands?
But seriously, if CNN held a special debate for Republicans polling under 1%, then shouldn’t Lawrence Lessig have had the opportunity to stand on a stage and debate himself? I digress. Anyway, yes, the Democrats finally held their first of few debates.
And live blogs? You betcha! I only linked the first instance of each live blog:
Bernie Sanders: “The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails” (417 shares, NYT) (125, Vice) (1,002, CNN) .
Hillary Clinton: “This has gone on too long and it is time for our country to stand up against the NRA” (26, Forbes) (18, Vice).
Lincoln Chafee: “I’m very proud that in my 30 years of public service, I have had no scandals” (19, NYT) (9, Vice) (2, Forbes).
Martin O’Malley: “We must square our shoulders to the great threat of climate change and make this an opportunity” (10, Forbes).
Jim Webb: “The greatest strategic threat we have right now is resolving our strategic relationship for China” (1, Forbes).
Bernie Sanders: “Congress does not regulate Wall Street. Wall Street regulates Congress” (45, NYT) (3, Forbes).
Hillary Clinton: “Diplomacy is not about getting to the perfect solution, it’s about how we balance the risks” (8, Forbes).
Post debate, most people are fawning over Hillary. Dana Milbank at the Washington Post: “She was, in short, a man among boys” (8 shares).
Of course there was some pre-debate chatter.
From Salon: “Some say Sanders has hit his ceiling but he hasn’t even had a chance to reach his audience” (28 shares).
Sanders would like this question asked: “When one of your Republican colleagues gets on the show, do you say, ‘Are you a capitalist?’” (52 shares).
And there have been non-debate articles about the election. The New York Times created some visually stunning insights into the top donators so far in this campaign.
The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election by Nicholas Confessore, Sarah Cohen and Karen Yourish for the New York Times (10,709 tweets, 114 unique quotes.)
“Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House” (36 shares). “Not since before Watergate have so few people and businesses provided so much early money in a campaign” (42). Unlike how the general population is trending, “they are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male” (16). “The Chicago hedge fund billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin, for example, earns about $68.5 million a month after taxes” (1). His total of $300,000 in donations is the equivalent of the average American household donating $21.17. “The campaign finance system is now a countervailing force to the way the actual voters of the country are evolving” (4).
In other political news:
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla: “Citizens should not be required to opt in to their fundamental right to vote” (18 shares).
“This is a continuous Trump rally that happens on Twitter at all hours. He fills the Twitter stadium every day” (15 shares).
What would it take for Trump to quit the race? “If I saw myself going down, if you would stop calling me because you no longer have any interest in Trump” (9 shares).
Newt Gingrich on considering returning as Speaker of the House: “This is why George Washington came out of retirement” (308 shares).
Ben Carson received a lot of bad press for saying he directed a gunman toward the cashier. “If he wins office, we’ll all be that poor Popeyes clerk” (128 shares).
“No president has ever been as inexperienced as any of these three leading Republican candidates” (29 shares).
Why does Major Bradley F. Podliska think he was fired from the Benghazi committee? “In his view, they felt he was not focusing enough on Mrs. Clinton” (17 shares).
The GOP made a webpage listing reasons not to support Hillary, including that “Clinton voted to authorize the war in Iraq” (199 shares). Because of water, and a bridge, or whatever.
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Originally published at tinyletter.com.
