We get another round of 20 candidates on stage over the next two nights. It’s probably the last hurrah for a number of them unless they can gain some traction this week, as a bunch of them are running out of money, and I say thank goodness. 
I confess I’m disappointed at the division of the candidates for this week’s debates, because, well, Harris has already had her opportunity for a shot at Biden, and dammit, it should be Warren’s turn. 
It’s true that Harris used that first opportunity extremely well, but I’m sure Team Biden has been spending a great deal of time thinking up ways for Biden to hit back in tomorrow’s debate, and I’m sure we’ll see him give it his best shot. How well Harris handles that will be interesting.
Warren’s got a tougher challenge, IMHO: she’s got to show Bernie fans that she’s really the one they’re looking for, without alienating them by being too critical of Sanders and his ideas. It’s gonna be quite the needle to thread.
Bernie’s challenge is arrest his gradual slide in the polls, but what’s to be done? This time, unlike 2016, he’s not the only challenger to the establishment candidate, and I think we’re finding how much of his support in 2016 was anybody-but-Hillary voters. Everybody already knows what Bernie’s about, and it’s not winning over a lot of voters this time.
Everybody else’s challenge is to break through and make themselves relevant - especially those who aren’t likely to qualify for September’s debate otherwise.
This will be the last time we see half of them, so enjoy it while you can.
Nothing against the OP, but the whole boxing-match scorekeeping aura of these things, while perhaps unavoidable, puts me off a bit.
With that said, and from a pure entertainment aspect, I’d like to see each of the candidates given a chance to describe, in their own views and their best oratory, just what a complete fucking plonker they think Trump is. Oh well, wouldn’t really serve any useful purpose, and guess they’ll be too busy trying to score points off each other to have time for much of that anyway.
Is this going to be the live commentary thread (I hope)?
Who else has their Steve Bullock pants on?!
I look forward to seeing Bernie, Warren, and Buttigieg on the stage together. Should be a good one tonight.
Well, the first 12 minutes were a complete waste of airtime. They could’ve given each candidate another minute to talk instead of whatever the fuck that was
What happened in the first 12 minutes? I missed that bit.
Nothing. Intros, handshakes, flags, etc
Thanks. 
Glad I missed it.
Notice how Warren chastised and lectured the audience. Awesome. :smack:
Great to see the others nail her and Bernie to the wall on their politically suicidal rigidity on healthcare. Even Marianne Williamson is talking sense on this.
Ffs, Bernie and Warren are just scolding us like a couple of cranky old Abe Simpsons.
ETA: can Bernie just shut his fucking piehole for 90 seconds?
How refreshing, to see an actual debate about an actual public interest policy.
Does Pete have shoe polish smudged on his forehead?
Looks like a lock of his hair came loose? 
Man, Gov. Bullock, where have you been all my primary campaign season?! I’ve liked this guy on paper and in interviews, but he’s holding his own on this stage. I just fear he’s making himself known too late in the game to catch up.
So I’m watching it tape delayed. (ETA: just started) I’ll check in later. In the meantime, enjoy!
I really wish they would stop calling it free health care. I know it’s not free, we all know it’s not free, it’s just funded differently.
Man that irritates me.
