2007-11-15

Las Vegas Democratic Debate Recap

Clinton and Obama reinforced their top two position during the Las Vegas Debate. Clinton really recovered from her setbacks during the past few weeks, and came of strong and collected during the entire debate.

Edwards lost ground and even got booed when he mentioned Hillary takes money from lobbiests in response to Hillary discussing how humbling and historic the possibility of becoming the first ever female president is. She finished her clip by mentioning that 95 year old women wait in line for hours to shake her hand, and say things like "I was born before women could vote and want to live to see the first female president." It almost brought tears to my eyes. Why Edwards would follow that with a weak attack on funding sources is baffling.

Obama did fairly well, but had some obvious slip-ups like calling his proposed 1 trillion dollar tax increase by lifting the income cap for Social Security a tax cut.

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