CBS Democratic Debate: Live Coverage

I’m from Baltimore and must point out this story about the mother who smacked her kid around to get him out of a violent protest. She was championed by many people … and now, she is barely scraping by. Her politicized moment in the sun did not do much for her. A good read just for context.

She should be doing more of both those things, Micah and Nate. The favorable rating of the Republican Party among Democrats, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll, was just 5 percent. In the same survey, 81 percent of Democrats approved of the job President Obama has done.

As the question turns to race relations and policing, I can’t help but think of how often Chris Christie has made a point of coming out as a pro-police candidate. You can be pro-healthy race relations and pro-police, but is that coded language? And is there peril on the other side, meaning the Democrats, if they don’t explicitly make an appeal to being “pro-police”?