DEMS FACE OFF IN SC

The first Democratic presidential debate was held earlier today on campus at the University of South Carolina. (and no jokes about mixing Democrats and Cocks! jeez!)

Nine candidates were present: Kerry, Edwards, Dean, Gephardt, Lieberman, Moseley-Braun, Kucinich, Sharpton and Graham. A couple of the candidates apparently went after Gephardt's health care plan, but apparently when the focus was on the economy, the candidates were more united, focusing their attacks on Dubya's economic policy (or lack thereof).

Two things:
1) I'll have more analysis tomorrow when I watch the debate on CSPAN, and
2) It's a year and a half until the election, and that's an eternity. Kos points to a couple of old poll samples that really hit this point home: A year and a half before the 1992 election, Bill Clinton was at 1%.