WASHINGTON (CNN) -- When you have so many candidates in the field it helps those who normally don't get much attention. So if you are Senator Biden, Senator Dodd, Governor Richardson, this is a good night for you because you finally get a chance to be noticed, assuming there are Democratic primary voters out there watching and not just the pundits and the news media.

If I had to pick a winner tonight, just because of that reason, I’d pick Senator Biden. Not because he did any thing that distanced him by any great means from any of the other candidates but just simply because he talked about being a muscular Democrat. He got the anti-war guys a little bit mad at him during the debate and he got to speak, just as Governor Richardson and Senator Dodd in the same light. They don't get much attention because of all the attention on Senators Clinton and Obama and former Senator Edwards. So those guys will certainly like the multi-candidate debates and the front-runners, even though the say they’d like a better format, they like them too because they can’t all get beat up at once and they don’t have enough time to make gaffes.