What Went Down At The January Democratic Debate

I think what’s interesting about this Sanders-Warren tiff over whether or not Sanders told her he didn’t think a woman could win is that … a lot of American voters think just that! This election is certainly different from 2016 — a 2016 hangover, in some sense — in that voters do seem to have a more contracted idea of the possible, and specifically about whether a woman can be president.

According to a July poll from Ipsos for the Daily Beast, 74 percent of Democrats and independents say they are comfortable with a female president, but just 33 percent think their neighbors are comfortable with a female president.

I have a lot of respect for CNN devoting the first 40 minutes or so of this debate to foreign policy — one of the few policy areas that presidents can actually influence without Congress. But I fear it made viewers’ eyes glaze over.