South Florida Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz was knocked around last week for some hyperbolic comments she's made since becoming chair of the Democratic National Committee (Politico called her first month as chair as "rocky").
But she more than held her own in the first of what will be many televised battles with her GOP counterpart, Reince Priebus on NBC's Meet The Press on Sunday (a broadcast that was not aired at its original time in the Tampa Bay market).
This article appears in Jun 9-15, 2011.