A Boston Globe poll released Friday – among the first since the debate – showed O’Malley with support from 1 percent of respondents in New Hampshire, about the same as before the debate.
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As the presidential candidates are campaigning across the country, many of them are waiting to see if Vice President Joe Biden chooses to run.
“She did exactly what she needed to do”, said David R. Gergen, a Kennedy School of Government professor who advised former President Bill Clinton, Hillary’s husband, while he was in the White House. And former-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush cast Clinton as the beneficiary of a Democratic field that sidestepped confrontations over her private email use, a controversy that has dogged her campaign for months. “I think people just need to hear you say what you feel”, DeGeneres said as the audience applauded.
But despite Clinton’s sizable amount of on-hand cash, she is closely challenged by rival Vermont Sen. Barack Obama used an impressive nuts-and-bolts operation to overtake Clinton’s favored campaign.
On the contentious issue of gun control, Americans overwhelmingly support expanding background checks for ownership, a proposal Clinton touted in the debate.
Tuesday October 13th marked the first Democratic debate of the campaign for president.
Last week, she came out against the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal (which includes the United States and Singapore) – a reversal from her original position when she was secretary of state and called it the “gold standard” of trade deals. “He valued my judgment, and I spent a lot of time with him in the Situation Room, going over a few very hard issues”. But he gained nothing that truly effects Clinton’s or Sanders’ positions.
President Obama was perhaps the most unexpected victor of the first Democratic debate.
Of the likely Democratic voters surveyed who watched it, Clinton was declared the victor of Tuesday night’s debate, 54% to 24% for Sanders. Which merely buys O’Malley a point or two at best.
Patricia Paystrup, communications professor at Southern Utah University, said it was a great debate overall and while Webb and Lincoln Chafee were weak, the exchanges between Clinton and Sanders turned out well.
“I think what you said about Hillary in the emails, you said this may not be political, and I think that’s the exact thing that people are sick of, is people being political”. “They treated each other civilly so I can agree with that”. “So he’s got to decide, ‘Am I going to enter the race?”
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“Your fights are my fights, they always have been, they always will be”, said Clinton, who also said that without immigrants America would be less diverse, less economically strong and “far less interesting”.
