National poll: Sanders, Clinton neck-and-neck

I’m guessing Hillary Clinton actually believes that there’s too much big money in the political system, corrupting everything and everyone it touches – except, well, her. And that Bernie Sanders, if he were honest with himself, would know that, too. If Clinton is Meryl Streep – talented, tireless, accomplished, a star who’s been the center of attention for as long as anyone can remember – Sanders is Gene Hackman, who only became a marquee name after years in lesser roles and retained the supporting actor’s knack for stealing scene after scene. We get it. She’s not interested unless she ends up being forced to do it.

“The root of that word, progressive”, she explained, “is progress”.

Thursday night’s MSNBC Democratic debate between Hillary Clinton and Sen.

Clinton also made a point to raise in her opening and closing statements in Thursday’s debate “the continuing challenges of racism, sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community”.

It’s not clear that the strategy has worked.

Clinton has tried to play down expectations for her performance in New Hampshire, where she came from behind for an upset victory in the 2008 campaign just days after losing badly to Obama in Iowa.

General election match-ups between the top Republican and Democratic candidates suggest Sanders and Rubio would be their party’s most competitive standard-bearers.

In his Friday morning speech, Sanders said he would continue to fight over the issues of income inequality, flat wages, and a “rigged economy”, even as the media continues to see politics “as a football game or a soap opera”.

I am not one to rush to defend the critical thinking skills of the average American voter, but based upon these facts you would have to be fairly stupid not to perceive Hillary Clinton’s ties to Wall Street. “But you will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that I ever received”. Many Democrats dubbed themselves progressives in favor of being labeled under the banner of “liberalism”. Sanders is offering Democrats what they have been longing for in their hearts.

Where Clinton aimed considerable criticism at Sanders, the Vermont senator focused much of his fire on what he says is a political system rigged against ordinary Americans.

The latest Democratic debate found Hillary Clinton in a defensive crouch about her Wall Street ties and making iffy claims about that longtime relationship. Paul Wellstone, a liberal icon, could not meet.

As for Bernie Sanders, he managed to stay calm during the whole Democratic debate, maintaining his point that Mrs. Clinton’s campaign was funded in part by banks.

During that time she called for moderate tightening of financial rules but generally took a “hands-off approach to Wall Street regulation”.

By the time the scandal broke, Sanders had been chairman for more than a year.

We know a lot of you dear readers are also daytime tenants of 200 West Street and various other Goldman outposts, and by statistical reasoning at least one of you was at one of these speeches. But Clinton, rather than zeroing in on this serious failure in Sanders resume, ran to his side and helped deflect attention away from the crisis by complaining about “privatization”.