Warren basically did what she had to, although it’s inexplicable that the moderators gave her question after question during the first half only to all but ignore her for the second. It will be down to whether or not her closing statement reminded everyone of who the moderators let people see during the first half.

Every last white man on tonight’s stage should be done after tonight but being white men they won’t acknowledge this.

The biggest news is that Castro successfully threw himself headlong into being the candidate viewers now will want to hear more from, and I think some of that will be at the expense of Booker’s percentage.

O’Rourke is not the candidate he thinks he is playing, and should be running for Senate, but also learn how not to sound like he is trying to remember exactly how he practiced each answer.

There’s nothing to know about Gabbard other than the fact that she stumbled through saying “LGBTQ” as if it were “Mxyzptlk”.

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Addenda

1. “Chuck Todd, one of the debate’s moderators,” writes Erin Doherty, “spoke just four words less than Warren and spoke more words than seven of the candidates on stage.” Because of course he did, because Chuck Todd is terrible.