Join me here at 7 p.m. CT for a live blogging commentary and discussion of the debate between Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton in Austin.
Texas is historically a red state, but has been showing a lot of blue since the early voting began.
Wow! What great coverage. Thanks so much for doing this. I couldn't watch the debate, and now I feel like I did. It was interesting to me that Clinton was booed. I don't think she's ever been booed in any of the debates before, has she?
Posted by: Glennia | February 21, 2008 at 11:40 PM
Julie--thanks so much for doing this!! I read your coverage as soon as I got home tonight. Your fingers got quite a workout!
Posted by: Stefania/CityMama | February 21, 2008 at 11:53 PM
You're welcome and thanks. :)
Glennia, no I don't think she's been booed, but that was a fairly low blow. Her defense of it was even worse. At the time I KNEW that was going to be the unfortunate point the media would pick up and hound on like dogs with bones and so far that's the case. Anderson Cooper even did a word by word comparison of her closing remarks to a speech John Edwards gave. Very similar.
Hillary shouldn't have started it because now it will be the discussion point and the media should not focus too much on it.
Hopefully both will drop it.
There are finer points to discuss such as health care, education, economy or bilingual issues.
I'm not clear that either candidate understood why Ramos asked the language question.
Posted by: Julie Pippert | February 22, 2008 at 03:49 AM