What Went Down At The Univision Democratic Debate

A query about Wall Street for the candidates was framed by a quote by Sen. Elizabeth Warren about what she sees as a “revolving door” between Wall Streeters and the White House. Those ties can also be indirect, as we’ve seen during the current administration. In 2013, Lawrence Summers, the economist and former Harvard University president, withdrew from consideration to be chair of the Federal Reserve because of criticism of both his policy stances and his taking fees for speeches to financiers. Warren has been famously silent while Sanders and Clinton duke things out. She’d be a big get as an endorsement.

Obama is a divisive figure, not equally appreciated by the bases of the two Democratic candidates. As FiveThirtyEight contributor Dan Hopkins pointed out: Clinton supporters like Obama a lot more than Sanders’s voters do.

Harry, to your point that many are seeing these candidates for the first time: There are signs that the television audience composition for debates is changing. Sunday night’s debate audience was, according to Nielsen, 9 percent men ages 18 to 34, 15 percent black and 9 percent Hispanic — all highs to date (not counting Telemundo’s simulcast of last month’s debate).