The Democratic Debate Silence

Published July 10, 2015 11:53am ET



There’s been plenty of sound and fury over the Republican presidential primary debates. Who will make the 10-candidate cut? Who will get left out? Will Ohio’s governor John Kasich be shut out of the first debate, which is being held in his own state? What nutty thing(s) will Donald Trump say?

With something like 17 serious GOP candidates, perhaps we should expect this much scrutiny over the Republican debates. But what about the Democratic presidential primary debates? After all, Hillary Clinton has drawn four serious challengers—Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb, and Lincoln Chaffee—and at least one of those, Sanders, is within striking distance of Clinton. But no one seems to care when or where the first Democratic debate will be held.

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