PBS Democratic Debate: Live Coverage

It’s a smart strategy. Obama’s approval rating is basically even among all Americans. Among Democrats, it’s north of 80 percent.

Hillary Clinton is really trying to highlight that she believes she’s the only pro-Obama candidate in this primary. Is that a wise move in a primary where the voters are stalwart Democrats?

Nate mentioned Sanders’s curious decision to go back to the 1970s. Now he goes back to the 1930s and 1940s in citing Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill as leaders who would influence his decisions on foreign policy. Clinton goes with more current choices: She cites Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013, and then gives fulsome praise to sitting President Obama — praise she contrasts with Sanders’s recent criticism of Obama.