Sanders’ backers should be disappointed

She may have dampened calls for Biden to make a belated entrance into the race, while also blunting the threat from insurgent candidate, Bernie Sanders, a 74-year-old senator from Vermont and self-described democratic socialist.

Round one is in the books for five White House hopefuls that took the stage in Vegas Tuesday night. Each added an occasional comment.

Nona Lippincott, a Republican, said she did watch the Democratic debate because she wanted to hear what the other side had to say. Sanders in the third quarter raised $20.2 million in donations under $200, while Clinton raised just $5.2 million from donations under $200, and instead relied on bigger-dollar contributions. Kai Lucid, a senior, said Sanders won the debate because of his energy and attitude. While not illegal or against policy, it cast doubt upon her character. Bernie Sanders said he was going to explain to Americans what democratic socialism is. And I think that’s the exact thing that people are sick of is people being political. Say my name, will you?

WCDP County Chairwoman Dorothy Engelman noted it was important that the candidates discussed the disparity between economic classes but would have liked to have seen more brought up about equal pay for women. It lasted two hours. He has raised millions since the debate, which has only served to fuel his rising popularity within the party.

Sanders, whose plain-spoken disgust over the email controversy drew praise, looked reactive at other points, hesitating to attack Mrs. Clinton forcefully over her ties to Wall Street, and running into trouble defending his past opposition to stricter gun control laws and immigration reform. His discomfort about guns, his home state of Vermont is protective of gun rights, and foreign policy seemed evident. And he told a moving story of parents from Colorado who lost a child in the Aurora theater shooting and then were denied a day in court suing the gun dealer who sold 4,000 rounds of military ammunition to the shooter. Mr. Biden says he has not made up his mind.

Here’s what gives. There is absolutely no evidence that the focus groups put together by CNN, Fusion and Fox included a genuine cross section of Democratic and independent voters or were led by non-partisan professionals.

It was Mrs Clinton’s strongest showing so far on the campaign trail and she came across as well briefed and putMr Sanders, her closest rival, under pressure. Sanders said, as the audience roared. O’Malley said, “the reason why people remain angry about it is because people feel like a lot of our legislators got railroaded in a war fever and by polls”. Similarly, she alleviated concern about her vote for the Patriot Act by blaming former President Bush for abusing the authority granted him under the Act, by allowing NSA to collect mega data. “But my sense is that it’s probably less true after tonight”. Hai Do was the editor.