Order of Town Hall: Bernie followed by the two acceptable establishment candidates:O'Malley,Clinton

[Skwmom]

Surprised: No.

[Renew Deal]

1. Are you saying that they're speaking to them in that order?

Will they be on the stage at the same time or are they appearing individually?

[Skwmom]

5. The said on CNN the order would be Sanders, then O'Malley, then Clinton so it would seem they would

appear individually. So Bernie can get directly or indirectly attack and have NO chance to reply.

[snagglepuss]

30. It'sworse because according to DemocratSinceBirth Hillary and OMalley

won't be in the room with Bernie which enables both of them to talk to their teams to develop the best rebuttals.

[Uncle Joe]

35. The closer IS in the best position, they get the last word, no chance for rebuttal from an opponent

and as you state if they're not in the same room, Hillary and O'Malley can converse with their teams about rebutting.

I hope the good people of Iowa and across the nation pick up on this.

I expect O'Malley and Hillary to pile on Bernie.

O'Malley knows he doesn't stand a chance of winning the nomination so he will be running for Vice President.

[questionseverything]

36. omalley has always been in the race to protect hc

he is there to split the ant hc vote

really upsets me since, on paper, except for his unconstitutional broken windows policy , he might of been a future leader in the democratic party

[restorefreedom]

2. of course clinton is the closer.

no chance for bs or mom to rebut.

no matter, people are seeing through the rigging to the truth.

[Empowerer]

10. And if she were the opener, it would be proof that it's rigged

And if she were right in the middle, it would be proof that it's rigged.

[restorefreedom]

11. the closer is the best position

no one can rebut.

but this was expected, no worries.

[Empowerer]

16. Unless Sanders were the closer

Then it would be unfair because he got stuck at the very end when hardly anyone was still watching.

No matter where they put him, people would complain that he's being railroaded. And no matter where they put Clinton, the same people would complain that she was given the best position.

"Why does SHE get to go FIRST?! Obviously, this is FIXED!"
"Oh, SURE, put her right in the MIDDLE when the most people will probably be watching! Obviously, this is FIXED!"

[Snotcicles]

20. Is your whole world this far removed from reality? nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

38. Empowerer isn't the poster who started a thread to complain about the sequence./nt

[restorefreedom]

25. you can think what you like about the order

i would have preferred sanders being last or second

just my personal preference

[DemocratSinceBirth]

37. The primacy and recency effect suggests MOM is at the greatest disadvantage.

People tend to remember the first and last thing they heard and forget what is in the middle.

[restorefreedom]

39. actually, i think you are right about that

i used be in competition when i was a kid (drum corps stuff), and i still remember the leader saying you want to be first or you want to be last. , last is better of course, but yes, mom could get lost in the middle

i hope he does well tonight

[Sheepshank]

27. Rachel Maddow also had Clinton on Last. I guess it's the privilege of being the frontrunner

kinda like the GOP leaders get center stage

[Punkingal]

3. i knew she would go last...

[NCTraveler]

4. Order of Town Hall: Bernie followed by the two acceptable candidates:O'Malley,Clinton

Corrected.

[Skwmom]

8. O'Malley is establishment trying to repackage as anti-establishment.

[NCTraveler]

9. Love O'Malley. If he doesn't make it in the primary,....

Watch out for Clinton to promote him as head of the DNC at the convention. The platform he is currently running on is so solid and thorough that it could be adopted as our party platform at the convention.

Really excited!!!!!!

[Skwmom]

13. I'm sure there will be something in it for O'Malley. He knows how the game is played. n/t

[NCTraveler]

17. "He knows how the game is played."

Good point. Both he and Clinton know how the game is played.

[riversedge]

23. Sanders advisor concedes he's part of the "establishment" too

Just had another walk-back from the Sanders camp. Saw this tweet a bit ago.

@KateBolduan 1h1 hour ago

After hitting HRC on being "establishment," Sanders advisor concedes he's part of the "establishment" too

[NCTraveler]

24. He is the only career politician running in the den primary.

I just love how the other poster goes with the "O'Malley knows how the game is played" argument. Simple flow states they don't even believe Sanders knows how DC works. I can agree with that.

[Qutzupalotl]

33. "another"

The other so-called "walk-back" was Sanders shooting down what SOMEONE ELSE said...making it not a walk-back. I saw that OP yesterday. The title was misleading spin.

[bigtree]

14. after decades of progressive fights and progressive accomplishments

...Martin O'Malley, the only true outsider in this race, benefits from your candidate's bickering over which one of the two decades-long fixtures in D.C. politics is 'establishment' or not.

Hilarious that anyone would suggest that anyone voting over 98% of the time with Democrats in Washington, as Sanders has over the decades, makes them anything other than part and parcel of the Democratic establishment.

[NCTraveler]

19. What really bothers me.

They have made it clear that any progressive who has negotiated and worked to make society better for us will be attacked relentlessly. You seem to be much nicer than I. I'm finding that accomplished progressives like O'Malley are hated by many Sanders supporters. Kind of funny that their "blank slate" is the only career politician running.

[askew]

32. O'Malley's accomplished more progressive policy in his 2 terms as governor than Sanders has

In his entire career.

This silly argument over establishment/anti-establishment doesn't matter to 90% of voters. What matters is policy and who has gotten things done for the people. O'Malley has and no other candidate can match what he's accomplished. In a world where the DNC didn't fix the debate schedule to protect Hillary, we'd be able to have a substantive debate over which candidate has released the best policy proposals and who has the best track record to deliver on those proposals. Instead we are left with useless bickering about labels.

[cali]

6. I expect nothing but machinations favorable to the establishment anointed one

[KittyWampus]

15. You can expect Sanders to get what he qualifies for as someone who never bothered

to join the DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

You don't like the "Establishment", but that is what wins a freaking election.

The infrastructure should just sprout up magically on election day for Saint Bernie.

[artislife]

28. Saint Bernie..did you use the phrase magical negro in 2008?

Because it is the same thing coming out of camp clinton.


Recycle.

[mythology]

34. To be fair there is a post further down

That refers to Clinton as her royal highness.

Name calling is stupid on both sides.

[NorthCarolina]

7. Means I can bug out early though.

Bernie is the only one I care to hear speak, so for me I'm glad he'll be on first. First up is probably not the best slot in terms of # of viewers tuned in at the time, but Bernie gets most of his coverage through Social Media anyway so I don't think it will be a big deal in the long run.

[Empowerer]

18. Kind of like putting your fingers in your ears and yelling "NA NA NA-I'm not LISTENING to YOU!"

Because, God forbid, you listen to someone with whom you don't agree...

[NorthCarolina]

21. To be honest with you, I've been around long enough to know

what the Clinton's are about so I don't really feel any pressing need to watch when I already understand what another Clinton administration would be about. O'Malley does not inspire me much either; sorry but he just doesn't. I've listened to him speak before several times, and while I don't have a problem with much of what he says, but he comes off as lacking sincerity. Bernie on the other hand, can reach out and touch our humanity in a way that I have rarely ever seen in my lifetime. Bernie is my candidate, I am very proud to support him, and I have absolutely no intention of changing my mind.

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. The fix was in when TPTB decided HRH needed this Town Hall to boost her campaign.

Everyone knew the queen would get the last word. It's a set-up for taking Bernie down. So predictable!

Too bad it's going to fail! Corruption will Not prevail!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[riversedge]

22. Sanders advisor concedes he's part of the "establishment" too

@KateBolduan 1h1 hour ago

After hitting HRC on being "establishment," Sanders advisor concedes he's part of the "establishment" too

[Mike__M]

26. Nope, no surprise

Even a fresh-laid under-200 newbie could see this coming as soon as the event was known

Wonder who will get the last word?

They really do think voters are stupid, don't they? The Trump comparisons are being applied to the wrong side, I think.

[sadoldgirl]

29. Once it was known whose wishes for this

town hall meeting were granted, the sequence
of speakers was only too obvious.

[askew]

31. I think that is good for Bernie and O'Malley.

I was afraid they were going to stick O'Malley at the end after Bernie and Hillary. By going first, Bernie doesn't have to worry about mild Hillary supporters tuning out before he speaks.

I just hope that the speaking time will be equal and that the questions will be of equal value for each candidate. In the Black/Brown forum, Hillary got softball ?s, Bernie got policy ?s and O'Malley got a bunch of stupid horserace ?s. They all should be asked substantive policy ?s and no horserace ?s at all.

I also hope that immigration reform and climate change are topics in the forum. We've beaten the foreign policy/ISIS debate to death by this point, but we have yet to have a substantive conversation on climate change or immigration. So, frustrating.