MSNBC's Chris Matthews - Hillary was 'so strong tonight... she's playing on the varsity team'"She behaved as if she won the Democratic nomination already. Thatthose two partners with her tonight were her adjutants, her alliesalready. She has won it. She was so strong tonight in skipping past theintramurals to the varsity. She's playing on the varsity teamtonight... [her] attack on the president was so dramatic, so powerful,referring to his pathetic effort to try to jawbone the prices down bythe middle east oil potentates, made the president look small tonight.She was running as his stronger successor, I might put it, tonight. Itwas powerful stuff and I wonder if these guys were ready for it. Idon't think they were, to take her on tonight, Keith. I thought it wasa strong performance tonight. Something else to watch." [MSNBC, 1/15/08]
Reno Gazette Journal's Anjeanette Damon - HRC ‘seizes on the moment' on Yucca Mountain."The Inevitable Yucca Mountain question is broached: Hillary Clintonseizes on the moment to go after both Barack Obama, pointing out thathe has taken large campaign contributions from the nuclear industry inhis state, and John Edwards, pointing out that he voted in favor of theproject before turning against it." [Reno Gazette Journal, 1/15/08]
NBC News' Andrea Mitchell - Hillary 'had passion' gave a ‘very successful' performance."Well the strategy was clearly to run against Bush and by doing thatshe becomes the presumptive leader among these people. She was veryforceful and I think effective and not in a strident way when shetalked about the urgency of the mortgage crisis because she haddetailed information, she had passion about it, but it wasn't a gradingthing, it was really a strong, forceful presentation. I thought thatwas very successful." [MSNBC, 1/15/08]
NBC News' Chuck Todd - 'Clinton is ' the candidate who is saying all the right things.' "Clinton is proving to be the candidate who is saying all the right things as far as Nevada is concerned." [MSNBC First Read, 1/15/08]
ABC News' Rick Klein - When the debate ‘turned to substance' Hillary 'turned it on,' show 'depth and range.'"On energy, an overall strong performance by Clinton. As soon as thisdebate turned to substance, she's turned it on...Clinton is answeringthe questions on the economy with depth and range" [ABC, PoliticalRadar, 1/15/08]
ABC News' David Wright - Hillary got 'the better' of Obama. "Seems like the only debate so far is over whether Obama's messy deskis a sign that he's not up to the job. Obama arguing he has vision, butneeds staff to handle the...Clinton did seem to get the better ofhim...Not surprising he should lose that round." [ABC, Political Radar,1/15/08]
The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder - Hillary 'got the better of an exchange on Yucca Mountain.' "Clintongot the better of an exchange on Yucca Mountain, making sure to drivehome the point that John Edwards twice voted in favor of the nuclearwaste repository." [The Atlantic blog, 1/15/08]
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