NATE SILVER
9:57 PM
I mean, the thing to remember, as I talked about earlier tonight, is that it’s not enough for Bloomberg to merely hold his ground. He has to GAIN more before Super Tuesday to really accumulate enough delegates to become a real threat to win the nomination, or at least to win it without a brokered convention. And tonight is going to make that harder. As to whether it causes some type of downward spiral, I don’t know how to estimate the odds of that. It’s one of the roughest stretches in a debate I’ve seen though for any candidate, though, and it comes at a time when the media coverage round Bloomberg is shifting in the direction of greater scrutiny.