He didn't hit Hillary hard on absolutely any issue, cosigned her on several, failed to strongly refute her arguments with healthcare or the economy, and failed in general to impress me.

Maybe that's just me, maybe that's my bias speaking, but I didn't see as much from him as even the last few debates. No bad moments for Hillary, no standout moments on his part, and that makes it all the more difficult to call it a win for Sanders.

This is the first time I watch the debate and he doesnt get half the time the others do. Why?

That sound byte about Bernie saying he's going to raise taxes on the middle class is already taking off. Damaging stuff.

I knew this would be bad for him.

They're dragging Clinton on CNN

Clinton had a good debate for South Carolina (tying herself consistently to Barack), she had a ok debate for Iowa (same with Bernie), and she did nothing to dig into Bernie's lead in New Hampshire

Are you guys happy now that we settled that?

Hmm, odd. He's said it before, guess it's just because it's the first time he's openly confirmed it in a debate.

Bernie is just way too one-note and singular-focused. Being president is about so much more than just wanting to reform campaign finance. I don't even know how he could achieve that as president. He has no knowledge on foreign policy and terrorism, and that will be crucial in the general election, as Republicans are very good at fear-mongering. Democrats would be so foolish to make him the nominee.

It's because he directly said he was going to, which he hadn't in the past. For some reason, probably much due to our country's beginnings, people are just outright afraid of taxes. It's something I'll never understand.

He was on more even ground/time before but obviously it's because he's polling so low.

It's because this was something that changed recently and he previously said he wasn't going to raise middle class taxes so it makes it seem like he was lying.

I was surprised by O'Malley, I notice some improvement with him as well. He's very strong, hasn't given up. I agree with Hillary bringing her usual, I fell asleep on her & Bernie at moments. Neither of them really elaborated on their plans, very minimal. Then again the moderators were constantly cutting them all off. Overall they all had a few highlights, well more so Bernie & O'Malley IMO compared to previous debates. Yes Hillary is a great debater to those Hillary stans strongly biased towards Bernie, however the GP aren't going based solely off who brought the best performance. It's more so to do with honesty, the level of passion on every objective, a consistent and solid background etc.. Which is why Bernie is stronger despite her being the front runner.

I don't think it'll happen because of that. I have a lot of respect for Bernie. But he advertises himself as something he is not and cannot be—a faultless, revolutionary everyday person to change America. He's a politician. He has agendas. He will do what it takes to see his ideas through. He is no different in that regard. Him running as a Democrat when he's been a registered Independent until 2 months ago is proof of that. In a nutshell, I just believe Bernie would be a terrible president. Not because I don't think he's a good person or whatever. But only because he is so focused on a few issues and is not well-rounded enough or seemingly aware of the president's power and limitations and responsibilities to actually pull the job off well.

True.

But I think he stood firm in the second half of the debate (Even if it was cosigning Hillary) and definitely tried to argue his point for healthcare.

Blasphemous! Bernie has never changed his mind on issues.

I definitely think he tried to argue his point for healthcare, I just think he was confused as to what Hillary meant, honestly. Hillary said that his plan would start the entire legislative process over, citing how difficult it was just to get Obamacare, let alone a new single-payer policy. Bernie was focused more so on who was covered and didn't see how Hillary said it wasn't expanding upon Obamacare (in a legislative way). Maybe if they weren't rushed to move on, we could have gotten a better answer for that issue.

So what Clinton said about Sanders being against Obama was mostly true

Not really. There were a couple of points that they called her out on, but for the most part, it was a general consensus that they felt Hillary won the debate. They seemed a lot critical of Bernie than usual and felt he missed the beat in calling Hillary out on several topics like the Iraq War vote, drawing a distinction between his vote vs. hers and how it aligns with was President Obama did in '08. Also they wanted him to be more transparent with his gun control support, feeling that he didn't own his previous vote against it. They true comparisons of owning it and apologizing for it like Hillary did for her vote to support the Iraq War initially.

His FP isn't as strong as Hillary, however your dead wrong of him having zero knowledge. He still posses more knowledge than any of the republican candidates.

CNN dragging Sanders now . They ripped his foreign policy and keep saying he is always turning everything about big banks