CBS Des Moines, Iowa Democratic debate @9pm ET **live commentary thread**

[Pyro]

O'Malley just said Black Lives Matter, now the others have to do it.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

I just got home did I miss anything good or did they just bash Republicans for the last hour and a half?

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

So I've just watched this vaguely. Who's winning?

3-Way Tie right now, in my opinion

They've been doing decently.

O'Malley does seem a bit rehearsed.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

LOL at the moderators taking random tweets from Twitter to bash Hillary. Their being in the tank against her is seriously cringeworthy. At least TRY to hide your bias.

The media wants a competitive democratic primary, and everyone is perfectly aware of that. No sense in trying to hide something everyone figured out very early on.

So your saying Romney won't tie Obama at 269? ; )

Romney isn't even running. Not funny.

Someone didn't get the joke...

CNN ran multiple stories about this farce in the weeks leading up to the election. 

Also not funny, as a tie was a legitimate possibility. This was one of several realistic tie maps:

http://www.270towin.com/maps/qZk6o

[YPestis25]

Clinton is rocking this race answer.

[Pyro]

I just got home did I miss anything good or did they just bash Republicans for the last hour and a half?

Bernie floundered on foreign policy but came back pretty well.
Clinton did very well, then slipped when Wall Street came up.
O'Malley had a great first half, now seems to be getting ready for a nap.

[Higgs]

I just got home did I miss anything good or did they just bash Republicans for the last hour and a half?

Bernie said that terrorism is a direct result of climate change.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Bernie's winning, but it's not overwhelming, the other 2 are doing OK.

[Fusionmunster]

Bernie's winning, but it's not overwhelming, the other 2 are doing OK.

Translation:

Hillary is winning by a decent margin.

[Landslide Lyndon]

I just got home did I miss anything good or did they just bash Republicans for the last hour and a half?

Bernie said that terrorism is a direct result of climate change.

You know who else says that? The Pentagon.

Hahahaha!!!

[IceSpear]

Nice pivot from Sanders on the e-mail. He's been doing a great job since the foreign policy section ended. Even taking into account the moderator's extreme anti-Hillary bias I'd say he's winning this so far.

Really? Hillary is doing pretty good imo, better than Sanders definitely

I think she's doing decently, especially on foreign policy where she beat Sanders easily, but his answers for the economic questions have been great, and his passion clearly shining through helps him IMO. Hillary seems a bit too detatched.

[Higgs]

I just got home did I miss anything good or did they just bash Republicans for the last hour and a half?

Bernie said that terrorism is a direct result of climate change.

You know who else says that? The Pentagon.

Hahahaha!!!

link?

[kansasdemocrat]

I just got home did I miss anything good or did they just bash Republicans for the last hour and a half?

Bernie said that terrorism is a direct result of climate change.

You know who else says that? The Pentagon.

Hahahaha!!!

link?

It doesn't exist.

[Pyro]

Yes, please lower interest rates on student loans. That would be much appreciated.

[The Other Castro]

I just got home did I miss anything good or did they just bash Republicans for the last hour and a half?

Bernie said that terrorism is a direct result of climate change.

You know who else says that? The Pentagon.

Hahahaha!!!

link?

It's not that difficult to make the logical connection between the shrinking of resources and the rise of terror.

[Pyro]

Dear Hillary Clinton, the children of Donald Trump are not going to go to a public university,

[Higgs]

I just got home did I miss anything good or did they just bash Republicans for the last hour and a half?

Bernie said that terrorism is a direct result of climate change.

You know who else says that? The Pentagon.

Hahahaha!!!

link?

It's not that difficult to make the logical connection between the shrinking of resources and the rise of terror.

Ah so no source

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Yes, please lower interest rates on student loans. That would be much appreciated.

They should probably also increase the maximum subsidized Stafford loan. It's been been the same since sometime last century.

[kansasdemocrat]

I just got home did I miss anything good or did they just bash Republicans for the last hour and a half?

Bernie said that terrorism is a direct result of climate change.

You know who else says that? The Pentagon.

Hahahaha!!!

link?

It's not that difficult to make the logical connection between the shrinking of resources and the rise of terror.

So ISIS was directly caused by violent climate change ravaging the Middle East?

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

[Landslide Lyndon]

I just got home did I miss anything good or did they just bash Republicans for the last hour and a half?

Bernie said that terrorism is a direct result of climate change.

You know who else says that? The Pentagon.

Hahahaha!!!

link?

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-22/o-malley-clashes-with-republicans-over-link-between-climate-change-and-isis

I just got home did I miss anything good or did they just bash Republicans for the last hour and a half?

Bernie said that terrorism is a direct result of climate change.

You know who else says that? The Pentagon.

Hahahaha!!!

link?

It doesn't exist.

Shut up troll.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Sanders may be a bit ahead of Clinton right now in terms of debate performance, but I don't see Clinton's poll numbers going down very much from this. O'Malley maybe goes up to 8% or thereabouts.

[IceSpear]

Hillary with an interesting swipe at Terry Branstad which got tons of applause. I know it's a room full of mostly liberal Democrats, but I thought Branstad was very popular and mostly inoffensive in Iowa?

[Skye]

Well, Branstad got re-elected by like 20 points, so...

[Kushahontas]

Hillary with an interesting swipe at Terry Branstad which got tons of applause. I know it's a room full of mostly liberal Democrats, but I thought Branstad was very popular and mostly inoffensive in Iowa?

except amongst liberal Democrats

[Higgs]

I just got home did I miss anything good or did they just bash Republicans for the last hour and a half?

Bernie said that terrorism is a direct result of climate change.

You know who else says that? The Pentagon.

Hahahaha!!!

link?

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-22/o-malley-clashes-with-republicans-over-link-between-climate-change-and-isis

I just got home did I miss anything good or did they just bash Republicans for the last hour and a half?

Bernie said that terrorism is a direct result of climate change.

You know who else says that? The Pentagon.

Hahahaha!!!

link?

It doesn't exist.

Shut up troll.

Interesting, but I don't think that qualifies terrorism as a direct result of climate change. It could influence it but to say terrorism directly comes from climate change would imply that there would be no terrorism without climate change.