CBS Democratic Debate: Live Coverage

Farai, I love all of this talk about Glass-Steagall. I’d be shocked if anyone outside a small circle of economists and Democratic activists have any clue what it is. I checked the Roper Center poll archive at Cornell, and there hasn’t even been a question about it since 1999. That was the only question ever asked about it.

Big style (sharp rhetoric! crowd cheers!) vs. substance (wait, what the hell did she just say?!?) contrast on Clinton’s answer tying her support for Wall Street to 9/11.

Interesting thoughts from James Diogenes, one of our live blog commenters tonight:

Sec. Clinton employs a rhetoric of contextualization — she takes issues and rhetorically presents them as more complicated, both to diffuse the yes/no nature of the questions she’s asked and to make her opponents seem unsubtle. When this works, it’s elegant and makes her looks intelligent and mature. When it doesn’t, she looks cagey.