ABC Manchester, NH Democratic debate @8pm ET **live commentary thread**

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Does anyone else wonder whether O'Malley will go after Sanders, in an extremely aggressive way, on the data breach? (Or maybe he'll choose to attack both Clinton and Sanders on the subject?) Either way, he is usually the least reluctant of the three reluctant to criticize the other candidates, I think both out of desperation and by demeanor, and it's difficult to imagine that he would let this slip, although he's remained silent on the topic so far.

Yeah, I kind of think Clinton will let the data breach slide, or just go with "I'll wait until all the facts are known to comment..." or something, but O'Malley will make some hay over it. It'll be interesting to see whether he thinks his potential support will come more from current Clinton supporters or Sanders supporters.

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ABC's World News Tonight anchor David Muir will anchor, and ABC Foreign Policy Correspondent Martha Raddatz will moderate the debate.

Awesome. Didn't she do the VP debate in 2012? That was a great debate in terms of keeping people on-topic, letting them finish their thoughts without going on lengthy monologues, and having reasonably interesting and useful questions.

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What tv channel is it on

ABC...

Found it. The online stream is about 60 seconds behind the television version.

Anyway, my predictions:

Hillary Clinton:

- "I'm a woman."
- "Boo Republicans."
- "My experience is sufficient."

Bernie Sanders:

- "Boo rich people."
- "I use statistics."
- "grrrrrrrr"

Martin O'Malley:

- "My name is Martin O'Malley."
- "I'm running for President."
- "I used to be the governor of a state."

Don't forget for O'Malley: "I stand up to the NRA."

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Liberal hugfest.

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Sanders with the super-subtle jab at Christie, there re: King Abdullah.

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King Abdullah II is a "hero" now?

Remember all the talk of this picture?

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Bernie: OOOoooooOOOOOooo...
Clinton: Yeah, what Bernie said.

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The guy talking now would be an excellent high-energy running mate for a third-party Jeb run.

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This commentator analysis in the middle of the debate is ridiculous. It was bad enough that they lied about when the debate started.

If your talking about the 538 piece, the ABC stream does not show advertisements, rather it cuts to those other add ins (they also do live from a Hillary HQ and cutting to a studio in New Hampshire). If it's something else, please tell me, because my stream keeps cutting out.

That last break, for example, George Stephanopoulos was brought on to do "real-time" analysis that was basically just the stuff they do at the end anyway.

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Current speaking time:

Clinton 30:45 (42.5%)
Sanders 23:26 (30.3%)
O'Malley 18:15 (25.1%)

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Lol. Great ending.