Posted on 12/20/2015 6:53:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON -- In what's sure to be another ratings washout, the Democratic National Committee held it's third debate on a weekend evening, this time also pitting themselves against a major NFL game.
The timing -- the Saturday before Christmas and in competition with the Jets' 19-16 win over the Cowboys in Dallas -- seemingly calculated to keep Hillary Clinton as protected as possible while assuring her challengers remain underexposed, critics noted.
At one point, Clinton came back late to the stage after an overly long bathroom break.
The moment left her two competitors cooling their heels at their podiums -- a perfect illustration for the Twitter hashtag that had already started circulating hours before the debate: #hidinghillary.
"They are actively discouraging people from watching by doing it on the Saturday before Christmas. Advantage, Hillary," Katie Packer Gage, former deputy campaign manager to Mitt Romney, told The Post. "No one hears an alternative to her. Most of America thinks there is no real primary on [the Democratic] side."
Only 8.5 million people watched the previous Democratic debate Nov. 14. By contrast, viewership for the Republicans’ prime-time debates have ranged from 13.5 million to 24 million.
The highlight of Saturday night's debate came early, with Bernie Sanders apologizing to Clinton in his opening statement for accessing her confidential voter file and admitted his staff was "wrong" for taking advantage of a database breach.
The next and fourth debate is scheduled for Jan. 17, a Sunday night.
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Who won the Kentucky Derby? Donald Trump! :-D
How does that guy do it? He _always_ wins!!! :-)
And these people gave Rubio a hard time for taking a sip of water? I’ll be watching for the endless jokes on SNL about Hillary’s bathroom break. And waiting. And waiting.
Give her a break! She had to drain her cankles.
Titanic or Lusitania?
Doesn’t matter, both went to the bottom.
One by iceberg the other by torpedo.
And those tend to be late games...
That long “bathroom break” was her staff telling her what the questions were going to be and telling her how to answer them.
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