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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2016 / Public Service Reminder: Democratic Debate Tomorrow Evening, 9pm EST

Public Service Reminder: Democratic Debate Tomorrow Evening, 9pm EST

by Anne Laurie|  November 13, 20157:00 pm| 19 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Events, Proud to Be A Democrat

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Just in case anyone needs to adjust their busy weekend schedules. Per Politico:

… The debate will last two hours and begin at 9 p.m. Eastern time…

CBS News says there will be no opening statements. Candidates will have 60 seconds to respond, 30 seconds for rebuttals and follow-ups, and 60 seconds for closing statements.

The debate will air on CBS and stream for free at www.cbsnews.com/live/. No cable subscription is necessary. CBS will also air the debate on its radio affiliates, meaning anyone with network TV, radio or Internet access can take it in…

There will be four people involved in moderating the debate, with Dickerson taking the lead as the principal moderator. Dickerson–known for acerbic questions asked on “Face the Nation” every Sunday–will get help from his CBS News colleague Nancy Cordes, the network’s congressional correspondent. Two local journalists will also pitch in on the panel with Cordes: KCCI’s Kevin Cooney and the Des Moines Register’s Kathie Obradovich. Cooney has been a stalwart of local politics and breaking news for decades and is retiring this month…

US News & World Report also plans to stream the debate, here. And I’m assuming the Guardian will liveblog the event as usual, although my weak search skills can’t find a direct link.

Further details, from Politico:

… With only three candidates on stage, CBS News plans to delve deep into the issues with each candidate and have taken advantage of the smaller pool by doing some intense research.

Moderator John Dickerson and his team met with each of the campaigns for more than an hour to discuss the major issues at play in the race, sources on the campaigns said, describing the pre-interview as “informational in nature.”…

“[Dickerson] and his team were very interested in getting to better know the senator’s stand on a wide spectrum of issues, what he would do about income inequality in this country,” said Bernie Sanders’ spokesman Michael Briggs. He said they discussed issues where there are real differences between the candidates — including gun control, the death penalty and raising taxes on the middle class. “John Dickerson’s a smart, impressive guy who cares a lot about the issues,” Briggs said. “I’m sure we’ll see a smart, issues-oriented debate.”…

“The beauty of having just three candidates is that you can spend more time on each issue and with each candidate,” [CBS News correspondent Nancy] Cordes said. ” You don’t feel like you need to jump from topic to topic so quickly that you never get to explore what it is that the candidate would do and how they deal with perhaps some of the drawback of the plans they have proposed. We can go beyond the 35- or 45-second talking point you hear in their stump speech all the time.”

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  1. 1.

    PaulW

    November 13, 2015 at 7:16 pm

    If anyone still wants a go at the drinking game, I pretty much cleared out the debris from October and you can re-use the rules as you want. http://noticeatrend.blogspot.com/2015/10/democratic-debate-drinking-game-for.html

  2. 2.

    Turgidson

    November 13, 2015 at 7:32 pm

    “John Dickerson’s a smart, impressive guy who cares a lot about the issues,” Briggs said.

    False.

    “I’m sure we’ll see a smart, issues-oriented debate.”…

    In spite of the moderator, perhaps.

  3. 3.

    Germy

    November 13, 2015 at 7:38 pm

    I don’t know if any of them can top Trump’s Iowa speech.

    Can you imagine Sanders grabbing his belt buckle and mocking HRC for her claim that she stabbed someone as a teenager? I thought the GOP is supposed to be the party of grownups? That’s what my conservative colleagues tell me, anyway.

  4. 4.

    Germy

    November 13, 2015 at 7:39 pm

    @PaulW:

    If anyone still wants a go at the drinking game…

    I can’t. After all these debates, my liver resembles a raisin suspended in cobwebs.

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    November 13, 2015 at 7:40 pm

    @Turgidson:
    It will be a better debate that the Republican fiascos, simply because the Democratic party’s candidates want to take on the job, not just occupy the office.

  6. 6.

    Mike in NC

    November 13, 2015 at 7:42 pm

    Dickerson: “Republicans say Democrats are soft on radical Islamic terrorism. Do each of you have a comprehensive 50-year plan to invade and stabilize every country in the Middle East?”

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    November 13, 2015 at 7:42 pm

    @Turgidson:
    Isn’t Dickerson a former honcho at Slate, and a pioneer of its trademark contrarianism?

  8. 8.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 13, 2015 at 7:46 pm

    @Germy: They’ll just talk about HRC trying to join the Marines.

  9. 9.

    MomSense

    November 13, 2015 at 7:48 pm

    I wonder how the moderators and candidates will handle discussions of Beirut and Paris.

  10. 10.

    equs_1776

    November 13, 2015 at 7:52 pm

    “We can go beyond the 35- or 45-second talking point you hear in their stump speech all the time.” Yeah right, expanded to 60 and 90-seconds. How about 5 minute openings, 15 minutes talking, 10 minutes rebuttal, and 5 minute finale? They might actually discuss things. Oh the horror.

  11. 11.

    Germy

    November 13, 2015 at 7:52 pm

    @MomSense:

    I wonder how the moderators and candidates will handle discussions of Beirut and Paris.

    “George W. Bush kept us safe. Will you?”

  12. 12.

    goblue72

    November 13, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    @MomSense: “Are you wiling to bomb Paris to defeat ISIS?”

  13. 13.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 13, 2015 at 8:26 pm

    @Germy:

    Wait, Hillary Clinton stabbed someone as a teenager? OMG OMG OMG, I have to put that up on Facebook Right.Naow!

  14. 14.

    Just One More Canuck

    November 13, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    @Germy: I would love it if either Bernie or Hillary said “I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die”

  15. 15.

    jl

    November 13, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    I remember Dickerson’s interviews with HRC and Sanders being pretty hacktacular. Just skipped through the youtube of the one with Sanders, and my memory is correct.

    Dickerson is just as much a partisan hack as Schieffer was on FTN, but I think less artful. If debate tomorrow is any good, I predict will be in spite of Dickerson, not because of him. Hope I am wrong.

    I’m planning to watch, so I hope it is good.

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 13, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    I know almost nothing about John Dickerson, but I remember his mother (Nancy Dickerson) from decades ago with great admiration — she was one of the first glass-ceiling-crackers in television journalism. If he has anything of her journalistic chops, he’ll be okay. If, on the other hand, he’s basically a Li’l Luke Russert type, then I despair.

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 13, 2015 at 8:44 pm

    @jl:

    Wrote my post before I saw yours. Too bad. I was hoping for better things from Nancy’s boy.

  18. 18.

    Cervantes

    November 13, 2015 at 9:06 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    John was estranged from his mother for many years.

    And no, he’s not Ed Murrow but he’s not nearly as gormless as Tim Russert’s boy.

  19. 19.

    jl

    November 13, 2015 at 9:15 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: you can go to youtube and search ‘Dickerson’ ‘Sanders’ ‘Clinton’ and watch the youtubes of the interviews and decide what you think.

    Not sure whether the link issue has bee fixed, so I’ll just give how I found them. I listened to both but not sure of my memory.

    Edit: I don’t think Dickerson is much different from average media news celebrity. Not as crummy as Todd, but that is saying almost nothing.

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