After Democratic debate, anyone qualified to lead? #tellusatoday

Democratic presidential candidates held their third debate Saturday in New Hampshire.

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There are no candidates on either the Republican or Democratic stage who are qualified to be president. Unfortunately, we have to pick one and continue what we’ve had for the past seven years: failed leadership and policies that have put the U.S. and the world in grave danger with no hope of being safe.

—Ralph J. Nichols

Hillary Clinton is already the Democratic nominee. Bernie Sanders, the outlandish socialist, also already has a job: to make Clinton not appear as extreme as she is. Martin O’Malley is there because they need more than two candidates to make it look like a real race.

—Warren Johnson

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Most Republicans I know feel minimum wage should be a state issue. If the states want to raise it, no problem.

—Peter Stein

To those complaining about Democrats wanting to make things free for the middle class: What’s wrong with free stuff? The GOP would put us in even worse shape. They would give the free stuff to the top 1%.

—Albert Wiersch

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I have watched the GOP candidates. I watched all of the Democratic debate in New Hampshire. What a contrast between the two parties. Listening to the Republican candidates is like listening to fear-mongering children attempting to talk about issues with very little knowledge. The very best qualities of all the Republican candidates combined would not equal the least of any Democratic candidate. The Democrats spoke passionately, candidly and intelligently from a reference of experience and knowledge.

Ed Breeding; Las Cruces, N.M.

If Hillary Clinton is the next president, she will be soft on terror and shift the blame to Donald Trump.

Keshi Dayalu; Ann Arbor, Mich.

We asked what people thought of the latest Democratic presidential debate.

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I agree with Hillary Clinton that Donald Trump is playing into fears after the shootings in Paris and San Bernardino, but I am still a supporter of gun rights.

—@cdthompson8875

Bernie Sanders won on Black Lives Matter. He tied with Martin O’Malley on economy.

—@courtneymvrie

Hillary Clinton won the debate by a mile!

—@APGsMom

Everyone on that stage during the Democratic debate was an ideologue.

—@Mikeyk9797

Nothing is free. The Democrats are the party of Robin Hood and Santa Claus.

—@BittmanSkip

Yes, Sanders is right. We are not the world’s police. This is just one reason international terrorists have us on their radar.

—@Bernite4life

Sanders represents me, my children and their future.

—@TerezAmato

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