Who do you think won the October Democratic Debates?

[Clipper]

The race is getting narrower, and we're getting closer and closer to seeing which candidate will face Trump in 2020.

For those of you who watched the debate, who do you think won?

Personally, I think Klochubar and Buttigieg did the best jobs, with Yang and Biden coming right behind them. I think Warren overtook Sanders, and everyone left Gabbard, Steyer, and Harris in the dust. Looks like Beto also hit a rough patch.

What are your thoughts?

[Debp]

3 minutes ago, Clipper said:

The race is getting narrower, and we're getting closer and closer to seeing which candidate will face Trump in 2020.

For those of you who watched the debate, who do you think won?

Personally, I think Klochubar and Buttigieg did the best jobs, with Yang and Biden coming right behind them. I think Warren overtook Sanders, and everyone left Gabbard, Steyer, and Harris in the dust. Looks like Beto also hit a rough patch.

What are your thoughts?

I caught the last hour and a half on Heavy.com since I don't have cable.   Although I'm a Republican, I like Yang out of all of them.   Something different....a businessman like Trump and maybe he would bring something new to politics in DC.

[Clipper]

3 minutes ago, Debp said:

I caught the last hour and a half on Heavy.com since I don't have cable.   Although I'm a Republican, I like Yang out of all of them.   Something different....a businessman like Trump and maybe he would bring something new to politics in DC.

I've noticed a decent amount of bipartisan support for Yang. I do find him to be an odd candidate, especially with his focus on automation and UBI. He doesn't seem to really line up with most of the other candidates for the Democratic Party, it'll be interesting to see how he continues.

[ayin jade]

1 hour ago, Debp said:

I caught the last hour and a half on Heavy.com since I don't have cable.   Although I'm a Republican, I like Yang out of all of them.   Something different....a businessman like Trump and maybe he would bring something new to politics in DC.

Yang wants to legalize heroin. He wants to give everyone 1000 dollars. He is unrealistic.

Buttiegig (I cant recall the spelling) wants to confiscate guns and punish churches that refuse to do gay weddings. 

Bernie wants a 97% tax rate on the wealthy. 

God help us if any of them are elected.

[Debp]

4 hours ago, ayin jade said:

Yang wants to legalize heroin. He wants to give everyone 1000 dollars. He is unrealistic.

Buttiegig (I cant recall the spelling) wants to confiscate guns and punish churches that refuse to do gay weddings. 

Bernie wants a 97% tax rate on the wealthy. 

God help us if any of them are elected.

I'm not voting for any of them.    I don't care for them so just said Yang was most interesting to me.

[LadyKay]

6 hours ago, Debp said:

I like Yang out of all of them. 

Well. He certainly thinks out side the box I have to say that. 

[Debp]

3 minutes ago, LadyKay said:

Well. He certainly thinks out side the box I have to say that. 

Out of all of them, I'd rather see Yang get the nomination.... probably no chance though.

[Clipper]

6 hours ago, ayin jade said:

Yang wants to legalize heroin. He wants to give everyone 1000 dollars. He is unrealistic.

Buttiegig (I cant recall the spelling) wants to confiscate guns and punish churches that refuse to do gay weddings. 

Bernie wants a 97% tax rate on the wealthy. 

God help us if any of them are elected.

Portugal decriminalized all drugs and, combined with their healthcare programs, reduced overall drug related deaths and increased the uptake of drug treatment. UBI is possible, but economically it's argued by major economists like Milton Friedman that a Negative Income Tax would be more effective. Yang's basically a meme candidate though, I doubt he's going to get above 5% in the polls.

Beto O'Rourke is the one who said all the confiscation and church stuff. Almost everyone on stage was against him for that, including Buttigieg.

Bernie's a populist nut. When AOC's ideas on taxing the rich with a top rate of 70% fall more in line with economists (article might have a softwall so if you're wondering, economists Peter Diamond (Nobel prize winner in economics) and Emmanuel Saez state that a top income tax rate of 50-70% for the hyper-rich would be the most beneficial to society) than your own policies there's something wrong.

[Coliseum]

When I consider the policies they have chosen to run on, I cannot support any of them. If I choose one over another, and yet still vote for President Trump, then the question---which Democrat did I think won---loses its meaning. However, if the question is changed to reflect who Trump may have a harder time defeating, I might say Tulsi Gabbard, who to me seems more level-headed, strong in defense, and has a sense of compassion. She also does not appear to have as much "group think" in her. Since however, the Democratic Party has an agenda, and has already put into place who they want their front-runners to be, she will not have that opportunity, IMO.

 

[Clipper]

Looks like the FiveThirtyEight polls are out on the results of the debates:

Who Won The Fourth Democratic Debate?

The October Democratic Debate In 6 Charts

FiveThirtyEight is run by Nate Silver, one of the biggest data nerds around. Here's what he's gathered about the recent debate:

Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg, Biden, and Klobuchar were ranked as the highest performing debaters, with Gabbard, Steyer, Castro, O'Rourke, and Yang being ranked as he worst performing debaters.

Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Warren, and Sanders all gained at least 2 points in total favorably, while Harris, Castro, Gabbard, and O'Rourke all losing over 2 points in favorably, O'Rourke losing a staggering 5.7 points of net favorability.

The top five candidates to watch out for remain as Warren, Biden, Sanders, Buttigieg, and Harris, with Buttigieg making the biggest lead among the five.

Klobuchar is the only candidate respondents stated they thought had a higher chance of beating Trump after the debates than before.

While Biden lacked a bit, it looks like this debate was a big win for smaller centre-left candidates like Buttigieg and Klobuchar, with the more left wing candidates Warren and Sanders making smaller gains on Biden.