9:06 PM: Sanders weaves prison and criminal justice reform into the lead in which has heretofore been pretty tightly focused on his economic critique. But again, nothing but coherence.
9:11 PM: This debate has an altogether different feel to it than all the debates this year. Much more old-school and civics-y, sort of the like the ones the League of Women Voters used to put on in the old days.
9:13 PM: I’m sort of curious that Sanders wasn’t willing to answer that question – the percentage size of government question. OTOH, the health care program would expand the government by 40%? That sounds too high.
9:17 PM: Admittedly not the most important issue in this campaign, by why have ‘akrit’ and ‘inakrit’ not become a thing yet?
9:19 PM: Clinton’s getting the better of Sanders here on the health care exchange – in part because he’s falling back on generalities and she’s hitting points that I think are basically accurate.
9:21 PM: “Secretary Clinton, you’re not in the White House yet.”
9:25 PM: I have to confess I find the continued pressing of Clinton over losing the women’s vote a bit gross. I mean, if she wins the male vote, is Bernie unmanned somehow? I mean, he had a big big win. A huge victory. When you win by 22 points you win basically every demographic. It’s almost like shaming at this point.
9:29 PM: Shorter Sanders: If a seventy-something Jewish socialist wins the presidency, it’ll be a breakthrough too. And how.
