CBS Democratic Debate: Live Coverage

Margaret Keen Harris, who’s on our live blog, points out that the Annie Oakley line O’Malley trotted out was delivered, with more vigor, by then-Sen. Obama. And Obama was then sharply criticized by former vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro as sexist. But Ferraro’s critique was viewed as too strong, so the Clinton campaign got a drubbing as racist, and Ferraro quit her post in Clinton’s finance committee. Remember 2008? Knives. Drawn.

Politics is all partisan, Nate. Each side cheers things that don’t always make a lot of sense.

Clinton’s response to that Twitter question on the strange linkage she drew between Wall Street and 9/11 made very little sense, and yet the crowd in Iowa cheered it. Democrats should remember that the next time they jibe a Republican debate audience for cheering a nonsensical applause line from Donald Trump or Ben Carson.