Dem Goo-Goo Wisconsin Debate Blogging #2

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9:38 PM: “Hardly anyone believes that they have …” I find that sort of a startling statement to be treated as simply accepted by everyone. Clearly the issue of race and discrimination has become a higher profile issue in the mainstream political dialog. And by some definitions there is more racialized contention in society. But she seems to be buying into the idea that everything was pretty good on this front before Obama became President. I would say that a more coherent way of looking at this is that Obama’s very presidency is in part a product of growing minority populations and rising expectations of equality. I won’t say this is a simple question: but the assumption that Obama made race relations worse is fairly offensive, not to say factually inaccurate.

9:43 PM: Clinton is referring to this study on rising mortality among middle aged whites, largely driving by overdose and chronic substance abuse.

9:47 PM: Just as a general matter, this debate – format, questions, lack of derp – is just so much better than any of the other debates on either side. On both sides this cycle, you’ve had an even greater glitzification of the debates, ratings drivers for the hosting networks.

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