ABC Democratic Debate: Live Coverage

Favorite moment: Sanders saying how much fun he was having. I think he actually was, Friday data breach aside. I think the back-and-forth on intervention in Syria, where the candidates got into specifics on what an increased U.S. presence there might look like, was pretty important. But I agree that there’s not much of a lasting effect.

Lasting effects: not many. Clinton demonstrated again that she’s very good at this. Sanders had maybe his sharpest performance among the debates so far, but with this debate taking place on a Saturday night before Christmas and him talking mostly from his playbook, he probably isn’t going to find many new converts.

My favorite moment was O’Malley acting like Chris Christie on the question of the DNC voter database. The most important moment was Sanders and Clinton basically putting the issue to an end. There will be no lasting effect in my mind.