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So, wrapwise: I feel reasonably confident that Biden had at least a pretty good debate, and I think that comes at a fairly clutch moment for him given that South Carolina votes on Saturday. I’m less confident about most other things, including how voters will react to Sanders and to a lesser extent Bloomberg. As for the candidate I was focused on, Buttigieg, I thought he was mostly pretty good, but as I said at the outset, it was going to be hard for him to grab attention given how many other candidates had more on the line tonight, and I doubt he’ll get much coverage, positive or negative, in the post-debate narrative, either.