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Senator Hillary Clinton’s responses caressed the CNN real-time reaction meter with consistently higher ratings than Senator Barack Obama all night long.
A few other observations, as a result of liveblogging the debate at two blogs at once:
-Hillary was “Senator Clinton” while Barack was “Barack” much of the evening - some of the co-bloggers I blogged with didn’t like that and thought it wasn’t respectful of HRC to not call Barack “Senator Obama.”
-some bloggers thought Obama looked annoyed when talking about hugging a grieving parent in relation to the angst of the war in Iraq.
-everyone loved the idea of the Dream Team and blogged it before Wolf Blitzer asked about the two candidates whether they’d consider it.
-we all wanted to know where Bill was shacked up and who he was with for the night.
-we wanted Pierce Brosnan and Diane Keaton to ask the questions and we wanted the camera to stop showing Rob Reiner.
General consensus: far better debate on every level than the GOP event last night. My estimation: because the two candidates are far better candidates on every level. But that’s just me. 
You can check out the live-blog commentary I participated in here and here.
Also - I could have sworn Wolf said that there will be debates on Feb. 27 and 28 and in Ohio?? Maybe he said just before Ohio? Anyone else hear that? I’m still on pretty powerful pain meds.
UPDATE: Behind the People Meter.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:25 pm January 31st, 2008 in Campaigning, Elections, Politics, WH2008
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Hillary was better than usual and she was treated to more air time? That was my perception. I like your collective analysis and could do without Blitzen er, Blitzer
Would like one topic debates or even two, one per half hr. Then we could get more substance. I heard several more debates before Ohio but then I may have needed some drugs to clarify 
[...] night I wrote, Also - I could have sworn Wolf said that there will be debates on Feb. 27 and 28 and in Ohio?? [...]
Carole - apparently the Science Debate 2008 is gaining some serious steam - so maybe we will get those dedicated times during the debates - I agree - I would love to drill down to that level.
Did I hear “Science debates?” Now THAT is more on my level!
I really hope they do consider dedicating time to some specific topic areas other than the biggies. We are so ready for that - this is one of those areas where the screens between the audience and the talking heads is most obvious.