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Bernie just mentioned that Democrats win when young voters are excited. Indeed, winning young voters is really important for Democratic candidates. In her opening statement, Clinton listed several social justice issues — topics, according to Pew Research, that are especially important to young voters, who are racially and ethnically more diverse and secular than older voters. According to Pew, 18- to 29-year-old voters leaned Democratic in 2004, 2006 and 2008. They did so again in 2012. And Sanders won a big majority of 17- to 44-year-olds in Iowa this week.

Here’s the Des Moines Register editorial both candidates essentially agreed with. It called for an audit of this year’s caucuses, improvement to the caucus system but not, necessarily, an end to it.

As Sanders said, he has been active on veterans issues during his congressional career and until recently chaired the Senate’s Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. It isn’t surprising he’s been so active on the issue: According to data from The Guardian, Vermont has lost more soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, per capita, than any other state.