Am I the only DUer who is looking forward to watching the primary debates

[Dragonfli]

22. I am looking very much forward to it! It is throug the debates that the contenders reveal themselves

Much can be gleaned in this early stage about the candidates regarding whether they view the issues in a more traditional Democratic way or through the prism of the New Democratic movement that prefers to adopt conservative fiscal values while attempting to retain minorities and women that are constituencies with long ties to the party, but without the debates, it is harder to nail down where on the scale they fall. If we are indeed forced to choose a lesser of evils, it is most important to know where on the relative evil scale they fall on.

I do not expect to find anyone running that strongly adheres to the new deal, they great society and civil liberties of the more traditional Democratic platform, but perhaps some will be revealed that still fall more towards that than the newer more common Friedmanomics and neoliberal type trade policy paradigm.

I hope that my open mind will discover through the primary process which of the lesser evils represents only minor evil and also which may still be willing to fight for the safety net and against poverty (they only like to talk about the middle class and up in modern politics, but perhaps some will acknowledge at least that poverty exists and and is growing worse before moving on to their favored middle class during one or more of their answers.

I can't wait! I hope others feel the same and are also looking forward to it.