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If anybody is watching the debate on CNN right now, the gloves have clearly come off. Clinton and Obama spent almost the first 20 minutes trading blows about Obama's pro-Reagan quotes, Bill Clinton's "fairytale" comment, slum lords, corporate lawyers, etc. This is the most contentious debate I have seen yet.
My guess is that the details of those arguments matter little. A lot of that back and forth only served to rehash the fact that the Clintons (yes, both) appear to have gone after Barack in the past couple weeks, and a lot of African Americans feel those attacks have been unfair. Assuming that the main audience for this debate is African American, that's a net loss for Clinton no matter which way you slice it in my opinion. And Edwards may have gained the most from their scuffle, though I don't think it will help him enough to make a huge difference at the polls.
We shall see which of the candidates (if any) is able to rise above in the second part of the debate.
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