What Went Down At The CNN Democratic Debate

Clare, Sanders is down by about 15 percentage points in our weighted average of New York polls — so how’s he doing tonight? Do you think he’s done anything to shrink that number? (Assuming the polls are right, of course — they could be wrong.)

New York voters approved of Gov. Cuomo’s fracking ban in polls in December 2014 and January 2015 by large margins — and national opinion since then has moved against fracking.

One more note on fracking: Clinton embraces the idea of natural gas as a “bridge fuel.” The notion is that the U.S. can reduce carbon emissions now by shifting from coal to cleaner gas and then later shift from gas to carbon-free energy sources. The idea is controversial in the environmental community. But given the state of renewable energy today, it isn’t clear how the U.S. could ban fracking now without burning more coal.