Debate Halftime:

I'd say Citizen's Warren & Sanders both had good nights last night. Elizabeth broke a nice sharp zinger over Congressman Delaney's Head and Bernie abandoned all pretense at being a "Front Runner" and jabbed away like a ferocious underdog.  Effectively, He and Senator Warren fought off the swarming moderates "back to back", thats a clever strategy in an overpopulated debate, but as the race tightens it won't work so well.
My only complaint about Senator Warren is that her line;  "I don't understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running to be the president of the United States to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for!" was really a rhetorical club she wanted to bust over Joe Biden's head.
That having been said of the moderates trying to mix it up with Warren/Sanders, Bullock came off the best even if he kinda smarmed it up at times, Delaney and Ryan are dogged but superfluous at this point and Hickenlooper though able...isn't making much of an impression.  Senator Klobuchar, again eloquent, but her game plan seems to be get to the Right of Senator Warren and to the Left of Joe Biden, which seems to be where almost everyone else wants to be save, Bernie Sanders and there may not be room enough on that spot.
I suspect though, that given their arguments the end result of all the moderate sniping last night at Warren/Sanders will be to hold the bridle that Joe Biden might mount up and ride.
That having been said, Joe has some challenges tonight, Harris will be gunning for him no question, he has to prepare for that and likely Cory Booker as well. He also needs to project authority and experience better, "rise above" and seize those reigns.
Of all of them tonight, its the toughest challenge I think, if Biden falls though, it becomes "Bernie and Elizabeth against the world" which is the fight they want, while the moderates will scramble to anoint Booker or even Buttigeig as their Candidate.
Gawd I love this, I'm likely wrong about everything still makes for good copy!