fallout from wednesday night's debate.

at the time of this posting, 16,135 comments on ABC's website regarding last night's debate (nearly all blasting ABC for the way it handled the event) - and counting.

wednesday night's debate on abc illustrated a disconnect between the network's perceptions of what voters desired from a discourse between sen. clinton and sen. obama. for 52 minutes on a number of issues that did anything but help educate voters on important issues. if there is any doubt over this claim, i would argue that my ability to classify the first 52 minutes of debate into the following two categories should provide proper support:
1) issues that put Obama on defense: Obama's association with Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers, his "bitter" comments and lapel flag pins
2) issues that put Clinton on defense: Bosnia comments

in fairness, george stephanopoulos' response to criticism can be viewed here.

this aside, the debate itself is unlikely to impact the outcome of the primaries.

in my office of ~40, there a number of active voters. the only mention of the debate this morning was a question asking me "how'd it go?"