After ONE debate, we shouldn't be ignoring all but 4 candidates...

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13. Excellent quote from Bennet.

Bennet is, like you say, a very sensible person. I think he could make a really solid candidate. He's very respected amongst his peers.

I love Inslee's policy approach - based around the most pressing issue mankind has ever faced. He's got great experience - with real results, and I think he's quite likable. But on that crowded stage he just didn't seem to come across all that well. Hopefully, things will improve for a number of people up there. When I first saw him interviewed around when he was announcing, I thought Inslee could really be the nominee.

(Why must the lesser known candidates be placed on the outside and asked fewer questions anyway? They have to seem obnoxious just participate. That fact makes the debates seem a bit rigged to me.)

Until the last few years, Sherrod Brown was actually a neighbor of ours - and is a fine a person as you would ever want to meet - the very model of what a public servant should be - dedicated, sincere, brilliant - at all times exhibiting empathy and humility (the absolute antithesis of Donald Drumpf)! We were really psyched when he was considering running - but he must have felt the field was just too big, and the Dems can't afford to lose his Senate seat - not with a Republican governor. His wife, journalist Connie Schultz, is a terrific progressive, a Pulitzer Prize winner, funny as hell, and certainly not afraid to speak her mind!