What Went Down At The CNN Democratic Debate

One question that we’ve been mulling over on the elections podcast: Is this Democratic primary nastier than the 2008 Democratic primary? We may do a special show on that question soon, and I’m curious what you think. I figure, what better place to have a conversation about political civility than Facebook? So chime in on the thread here.

Clinton stepped back from the “Vermont sends the most guns to New York” attack on stage, but her campaign seems to be sticking by it: An email from the Clinton press team just landed in my inbox with the subject line, “Vermont was #1 Per-Capita Source for Guns Recovered at New York Crime Scenes.” #spin.

As my colleague Oliver Roeder has written — if the U.S. were to release all drug offenders from federal prisons, it would still have the highest incarceration rate in the world.