HILLARY'S PHILLY FALLOUT

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Experts Agree, Hillary's Debate Performance
"Worst" Of Her Entire Campaign
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Experts Criticize Hillary For Debate Performance; Note How She Avoids Questions On Tough Issues:

The Politico's Roger Simon: "In a debate against six Democratic opponents at Drexel University here Tuesday, Clinton gave the worst performance of her entire campaign." (Roger Simon, Op-Ed, "Obama, Edwards Attack; Clinton Bombs Debate," The Politico, 10/31/07)

Simon: "It was that for two hours she dodged and weaved, parsed and stonewalled." (Roger Simon, Op-Ed, "Obama, Edwards Attack; Clinton Bombs Debate," The Politico, 10/31/07)
Time's Mark Halperin: "The failure of her performance was cumulative ..." (Mark Halperin, "Hillary Clinton, Grade: C-," Time.com, 10/31/07)

Halperin: "More defensive than usual, and at times too political and too hot tempered. Borderline disastrous moment at the end when she gave an equivocal answer about drivers licenses for illegal immigrants in New York ..." (Mark Halperin, "Hillary Clinton, Grade: C-," Time.com, 10/31/07)

NBC Political Director Chuck Todd: "I think she got stuck when she tries very hard not to answer specifics." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 10/30/07)

Todd: "[I] think she was trying to figure out a way to have it both ways. I hate to put it in those terms but I think that's what she was trying." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 10/30/07)
Todd: "Clinton increasingly got worse as the night went on." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 10/30/07)
ABC's George Stephanopoulos: "I do believe Hillary lost last night." (ABC's "Good Morning America," 10/31/07)

MSNBC's Chris Matthews: "Hillary Clinton would not answer the question straight." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 10/30/07)

Newsweek's Howard Fineman: "At the very end of the debate, she just came off like a politician who didn't want to answer the question." (MSNBC's "Hardball," 10/30/07)

The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza: "[S]he did struggle toward the end of the debate in a question about her support (or lack thereof) for Gov. Eliot Spitzer's (D) plan to offer driver's licenses for illegal immigrants." (Chris Cillizza, "Democratic Debate Wrap Up: Clinton Under Attack," The Washington Post's "The Fix" Blog, blog.washingtonpost.com, 10/30/07)

ABC's "The Note": "It was almost certainly Clinton's weakest performance of the cycle..." (ABC's "The Note," 10/31/07)

NBC's "First Read": "[Hillary] got weaker as the night went on. The exchange over driver's licenses for illegal immigrants allowed her opponents to drive home a narrative that has begun to develop for Clinton at these debates: that she never actually answers the tough questions." (NBC's "First Read," 10/31/07)

The Des Moines Register's David Yepsen: "Hillary Clinton ... did not have a good night." (David Yepsen, Op-Ed, "Johnny Be Good," The Des Moines Register, 10/30/07)

Yepsen: "She turned in an uneven, sometimes waffling performance." (David Yepsen, Op-Ed, "Johnny Be Good," The Des Moines Register, 10/30/07)

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