A Dozen Democrats Debate

The fair question to ask outside the breakdown is, “Is anything going to be different tomorrow?” Probably not much.

CNN/New York Times Debate Stage

The ridiculously large Democratic Debate rolled into Ohio as Julián Castro, Cory Booker, Andrew Yang, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Tulsi Gabbard, and Tom Steyer crowded onto the same stage for nearly 3 hours of political fun.

Our friend and election map guru Drew Savicki summed up the proceedings well.

Every time we do one of these, the pieces after the debate are basically written before but you fill in the blank of who did what specifically. “Winners & losers of debate” and “X candidate surges” and “Y candidate stumbles” and so forth. This time will be no different.

But is anything really changing here, is the question.

The debates themselves have changed the polling very little, if at all. The big “viral” moments did not help out any of the candidates who were involved…