What Went Down At The January Democratic Debate

Just a lot of weirdness in that exchange, in how the moderator’s question to Warren presumed that Sanders wasn’t being factual. I can see Sanders folks being pretty annoyed with that, and rightly so.

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.