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Day After Round Up - Dem Debate in NH

Here is the "best of" useful and information about last night's Democratic presidential primary debate.

Included below are links to the transcript, video clips, the campaigns' press releases (they all won), blog and press takes, and much, much more.

Click "Read more . . . " enjoy, and please help by adding your info, links or remarks in the comments.

Transcript.
The transcript can be found at CNN's site. Use it with the tag crowd tool to generate your won visuals of the words each candidate stressed (hint: Richardson said "governor" a lot).

Video.

There should be much more as time goes by since CNN is allowing unlimited use of the video, but two recommended sites for clips are PoliticsTV  and Jeff Jarvis's PresVid.

Personal Democracy Forum says
"Dodd is also pioneering the use of live video streams: according to Ustream.tv, with almost 10,000 views, Dodd's live-streaming of his New Hampshire debate war room yesterday was the second-most streamed event in Internet history, trailing the MTV Video Music Awards."

Press Releases.
Campaigns & Elections has press releases. Edwards put out three. But none from Obama and his website has next to nothing on the debate, too. Not sure that it matters, as we'll see in the coverage, Obama did well enough without tooting his own horn.

Dodd, whose Talk Clock widget was a big hit here and around the blogosphere, complained during the break and issued a press release with less than a half hour to go in the debate to complain about the time allocation. Biden also issued a release complaining about time allocation.

The Press.
CNN site has an extensive set of links to news articles here.

Yespsin, one of the most influential political columnists in early state Iowa, scores the debate for front runners.
Stephen Beale of the Union Leader finds two "analysts" and concludes Richardson and Edwards fared poorly, Hillary and Obama well.
John Judis at New Republic is the harshest critic of Edwards I have found.
Drew Cline at the Union Leader blogs that "Overall, I thought Sen. Clinton did very well, Obama did a little less well, Edwards was behind the two, Richardson was embarrassing, Dodd failed to distinguish himself, Kucinich and Gravel were the sideshow they know they are, and Joe Biden fared the best."

Elsewhere in New Hampshire The Nashua Telegraph puts terrorism ahead of Iraq in their story while almost all other reports had Iraq as the lede.
At the NYT in addition to the basic write up that favorably compares Obama's performance with his South Carolina debate debut,includes the liveblog of reporter, Katherine Q. Seelye, which reveals what she perceives as the debate unfolds.
The Washington Post story stresses Iraq and asserts as the NYT did that Obama improved on his South Carolina performance.

The Washington Post has more debate coverage then the NYT, as Chris Cilliza's "The Fix" blog has more commentary by itself than all of the NYT coverage.
They also have their own TV show with Cillizza, Balz and Kornblut

The blogs.
Hotline's bogometer does the blog round up so we don't have to. Other round ups can be found at The Plank and
And TPM's Election Central.

The very liberal Firedoglake has a blogger gushing over Hillary's performance.  

Chris Bowers argues that it may be a good thing to give more time to the front runners as happened last night.

Hillary blog
and Hillaryhub collect praise for her debating.  

Scholars?
Dial test focus group results were reported by Dr. Rita Kirk and Dr. Daniel Schill of Southern Methodist University, apparantly as part of the New Hampshire sponsoring TV station, WMUR, hosting effort. reported by

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