Bernie Sanders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nNotice what we have here:\u00a0 Bernie Sanders vs. Elizabeth Warren, competing for the party\u2019s most left-leaning voters.\u00a0 How will this play out?\u00a0 Will it be a battle between Sanders\u2019 Democratic Socialism, based in economics and class struggle, and the new \u201cidentity politics\u201d focused on race and gender?\u00a0 (My sense is that Warren can appeal to both of those ideologies.)<\/p>\n
We also have Pete Buttiegieg and Beto O\u2019Rourke, competing for second tier status, or perhaps auditioning for the Vice Presidency.<\/p>\n
All of the others will be desperately trying to get attention.\u00a0 The standards for inclusion tighten for the third debate, requiring greater levels of support to get invited to participate.\u00a0 So this may be the last chance for some of these candidates to make a splash.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see what lengths they will go to.\u00a0\u00a0I will be curious to see how New-Age-guru Marianne Williamson applies her mantra of cosmic oneness and creates her own reality in this context of\u00a0 dog-eat-dog political competition.<\/p>\n
Again, come to this post to discuss the debates.\u00a0 Feel free to live-blog the proceedings with your comments as the event unfolds.\u00a0 (I may or may not be doing that myself.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if I will be able to watch the debate tonight, but I might.\u00a0 If not, I\u2019d be interested in your take on the proceedings.)\u00a0 Afterwards and the next day, come to this post to talk about how the candidates did and what the debate tells us about the coming election.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the next night of the debate, I\u2019ll put put up a similar post to this one, toward the same purpose.\u00a0 That one will feature a matchup between the favored Joe Biden and challenger Kamala Harris, who knocked him on his heels last time and made herself a contender.\u00a0 (Note all the boxing metaphors I am using.)<\/p>\n
UPDATE:\u00a0 I\u2019ve got some time after all, so I\u2019m sitting in front of the TV, ready to live-blog the debate!\u00a0 Please watch it with me and chip in with commentary of your own.\u00a0 I have no dog in this fight, so I will approach it as a sporting event, as well as a herald of what will come.<\/p>\n
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