Democratic Debate: Collaborative Colorado Couchblog

Democratic Debate: Coordinated Colorado Couchblog

A live blogging experiment tonight. I'm joining other bloggers in a joint effort at covering the PBS Democratic debate. As per usual you can use the window below or visit the host site directly, in this case the Rocky Mountain News.

My colleagues tonight are:

M.E. Sprengelmeyer of the Rocky Mountain News. He's Denver's caucus guy in Des Moines.

Jason Bane of ColoradoPols.com and Iowa Independent's sister site ColoradoConfidential.com

The Cedar Rapids Gazette's Mike Hlas, whose blogwork is on "A Year in Iowa" and IowaCaucus.com

Columnist Mike Littwin of the Fair and Unbalanced blog.

"A fellow named JJ." (UPDATE: He never showed.)

And anyone else who cares to join in. Update: My Iowa Indy colleague Lynda Waddington of Essential Estrogen and noneedfortheneed at Common Iowan were part of the crew too.

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POST-DEBATE

The bite of the night: Hillary's AIDS answer.

Third tier winner: Kucinich did better in this more equal format. I think part of his "hysteria" in the other two debates was simply fighting for a turn. GraVEL just had longer versions of The Rant.

Second Tier: Biden was more forceful than a still-solid Dodd. (In a field like, say, 1988, Dodd would be a player.) Richardson was off.

First tier: This should have been Obama's night but wasn't. Edwards held his own. Clinton had a couple wonky answers but when she connected, she connected. Give it to Hillary.