While 22 million people may not have tuned into CNN for tonight’s Democratic debate in Las Vegas like they had for the second Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library last month, Twitter was just as lively without the circus that is the Republican presidential field (the Trump-led top-tier and the kiddie table undercard):
The #DemDebate makes Republican debate look like the real kids table.
— Gabriel Arana (he/him/his) (@gabrielarana) October 14, 2015
Most tweets, however, were considerably focused on former Virginia senator Jim Webb, who has hardly been seen on the campaign trail thus far:
Seriously, Jim Webb is running in the wrong primary. He really is. #demdebate
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) October 14, 2015
Jim Webb: "Why are you ignoring me?"
Anderson: "Sir, shhh."#DemDebate
— Chris “Law Dork” Geidner (@chrisgeidner) October 14, 2015
From what I see of the debate between innings, those 2 guys on the ends? Yeeesh. You 2 are not. going. to be. president. Of anything, ever.
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) October 14, 2015
Most tweets from Republicans that were not targeted at Hillary Clinton over Benghazi were poking fun at Bernie Sanders, like these two from Fox News personalities:
Sen. Bernie Sanders says climate change is the greatest threat facing the world. So will he bicycle to his next campaign event?
— Jon Scott (@JonScottFNC) October 14, 2015
Sanders conclusion: our country sucks. The solution? Socialism. Forget that it's killed 80 million or so.
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) October 14, 2015
A couple of Clinton jokes, of course:
Seriously, Hillary? You expect us to believe you never smoked weed? #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/bNmzv3gA3V
— Secular Talk (KyleKulinskiShow@bsky.social) (@KyleKulinski) October 14, 2015
Hilary Clinton is doing a good job not shapeshifting into a lizard
— Snorklhuahua (@weinerdog4life) October 14, 2015
Lots of complaints about the process:
If Don Lemon can only ask about black people and Juan Carlos Lopez can only ask about Hispanics, Wolf Blitzer only gets to ask about wolves.
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) October 14, 2015
$%^&. Now, I have to write a column, but the only new idea I got from Dem debate is that I'm now for assisted suicide.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) October 14, 2015
But in the end, the best joke was a Biden joke — per usual for social media:
Watch highlights from the debate:
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