Tho recession is still possible,, it remains 80% likely that Trump wins.

Will reps win House is big question?
Will corona virus make Reps / Trump lose?

In a previous thread I opined that she seemed to be the only adult in the room. She had her chances last night to deflect Buttigieg’s attacks with many fewer words and to keep on with her calm, unifying, reach-across-the-aisle theme that has worked so far. Like TommyJay says above, she indeed seemed like she was on something.

As for Buttigieg, I read an interesting piece somewhere that he is a bonafide red diaper baby, and then some.

A local focus group thought Warren came out on top. She seems so un-presidential in her breathless, scoldy manner, but I guess they liked that Warren let it all hang out – kinda had to with her NH showing.

The loud boos from the audience indicate that he also created an unbridgeable gap ‘twixt himself and Sanders. The odds are good that one of the two will be the Democrat nominee. And with the rancor, the odds increase that there will be a third-party candidate. Bernie and his minions are passionate; Bloomberg is rich.

With three candidates, it is possible that none get to 270 electoral college votes, in which case, the House of Representatives decides. Fortunately, it is the newly-elected House that decides. With three candidates for the Presidency, it would seem that the Republicans chances of re-gaining the House increase. Bloomberg and Sanders will shorten each other’s coat-tails in the Congressional races.

Like rice at a wedding. (At least in the moveis…)

Helping out the economy for sure.

It’s as if, as if he wants to help Make America Great Again!

I gotta agree that Bloomberg looked terrible up there.

But you have to see ‘the spin’ his paid campaign advisers put on his performance. Talk about making lemonade out of lemons!

If Bloomberg is the D’s nominee President Trump will have a bigger challenge winning. Of course if their guy isn’t Crazy Uncle Bernie his antifa Bernie Bro’s are going to be doing their best to burn our country down.

Which they might do anyway even if he is the nominee.

He awkwardly apologized for his success at crime prevention, a thing I appreciated as an NYC resident. The other candidates jumped on him as though he committed war crimes.

A strong moment to me was when he said he wasn’t a communist or a socialist, but shockingly, he was booed by the audience.

The other candidates attacked each other more vigorously than before, very politically and somewhat cattily.

If any of them win, among other things, ‘the revolution’ appears to be promising to ban any and all kinds of drilling or mining in America, increase governmental control of large and small business, go all in on reshaping the economy to comply with the green new deal, empty prisons of current criminals and restock them with fossil fuel executives, Trump and his allies.

Interestingly, nothing about gun control this time.

The odd thing was that Buttigieg really laid into Klobuchar and their demeanor was a little strange. Pete must desperately want the VP slot. I think Buttigieg won the exchange on style points, but I suspect that if I read the transcript Klobuchar would come off better. Pete looked like he popped half a Xanax before the debate, and Klobuchar looked like she had 3 espressos and had been informed that someone had killed her beloved dog.