The Third Debate Influenced Those Who Watched … But A Lot Of People Didn’t

The final numbers from our poll with Ipsos are in, and the big takeaway is that the third Democratic presidential debate didn’t seem to have a big effect on voters’ views of the primary. Ipsos interviewed the same group of likely Democratic primary voters twice — before and after the […] Read more »

The Houston debate changed few minds but may have opened a few

Everything you need to know about the Democratic debate in Houston is the fact that there isn’t much agreement on exactly what happened. The debate on Thursday was either punctuated by personal attacks and sharp ideological exchanges or marked by expressions of Democratic unity and camaraderie among the 10 candidates. […] Read more »

Biden’s age is a real issue. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to talk about.

In Thursday night’s debate, Julián Castro tried out a potentially fruitful line of attack against poll leader Joe Biden. But he might have bungled the execution. While sparring over the details of health-care policy, Castro repeatedly claimed that Biden had forgotten what he said only two minutes earlier. You can […] Read more »

The Third Democratic Debate In 7 Charts

For the first time this cycle, there was just one debate night, and only 10 candidates made the cut — so now we’re trying to make sense of what happened when the front-runners shared the stage. In recent weeks, the polls have shown a top tier of three to five […] Read more »