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The Democrats need more debates

thaiboxerken

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O'Malley challenged the DNC about the small amount of debates that are scheduled. Obviously, more debates would help the lesser known candidates get their message out. However, there is also the fact that the Republican messages are getting out unchallenged because there have been no DNC debates. The GOP debates are energizing their base. Why doesn't the DNC want to do the same?
 
thaiboxerken said:
O'Malley challenged the DNC about the small amount of debates that are scheduled. Obviously, more debates would help the lesser known candidates get their message out. However, there is also the fact that the Republican messages are getting out unchallenged because there have been no DNC debates. The GOP debates are energizing their base. Why doesn't the DNC want to do the same?
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From what I've read, largely coming out of O'Malley's camp, was that Clinton would not agree to more. At the time, she was the presumptive nominee and the hope was that with a wide open GOP field they would spend so much time sniping at each other that debates wouldn't serve the purpose of getting a democrat elected.

Keep in mind that Clinton was the presumptive nominee 8 years ago too and the debates gave exposure to a relatively unknown (compared to the field) Senator from Illinois.
 
I suspect they want to give Bernie Sanders as little airtime as possible. He makes far too much sense, and makes the rest of the bunch look very bad by comparison.
 
TragicMonkey said:
I suspect they want to give Bernie Sanders as little airtime as possible. He makes far too much sense, and makes the rest of the bunch look very bad by comparison.
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Which likely says volumes about not just the Democrat party, but pretty much the entire establishment - Republicans included. Sanders' is too extreme on a lot of issues on the tax end for me to vote for him, but his ability to speak his mind is far, far better than pretty much any recent politician I care to recall.

That aside, more debates would are a catch22 for Hillary. On one hand she kind of needs them to be better prepared in future debates with the republican counterparts - in other words... it's good practice to go through a few rounds ahead of the general election debates. On the other hand, Sanders' attitude goes against the establishment democrats pretty hard compared to what you normally see.

On the bright side, with so few candidates running the debates they do hold can devote more speaking time to each one, compared to the split off of time needed to accommodate say, 11 debaters.
 
thaiboxerken said:
O'Malley challenged the DNC about the small amount of debates that are scheduled. Obviously, more debates would help the lesser known candidates get their message out. However, there is also the fact that the Republican messages are getting out unchallenged because there have been no DNC debates. The GOP debates are energizing their base. Why doesn't the DNC want to do the same?
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Maybe the DNC thought that starting debates 15 months before the election was not a useful approach when there were only a handful of candidates. I sort of agree with that approach.
 
Ladewig said:
Maybe the DNC thought that starting debates 15 months before the election was not a useful approach when there were only a handful of candidates. I sort of agree with that approach.
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But the first election is in less than 5 months. And candidates have been campaigning for many months already. In fact, two credible Republican candidates have already dropped out. No, the reason for so few debates, and having them start so late, is to support Hillary's chances of securing the nomination early.
 
How many times can Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders debate each other?
 
sunmaster14 said:
But the first election is in less than 5 months. And candidates have been campaigning for many months already. In fact, two credible Republican candidates have already dropped out. No, the reason for so few debates, and having them start so late, is to support Hillary's chances of securing the nomination early.
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I was wrong.
 
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