So, we NOW have a new Democratic debate scheduled before the Iowa caucuses?

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76. Media gets to frost the cake

They too already know the type of sandbagging questions that will hit Sanders. Media blurbs will abound afterwards cherry-picking Sanders' 'defensive" remarks and Clinton's august "presidential" magnanimity. It does not even have to be rigged or rehearsed by then, just the usual brackish water flowing downhill on the media audience, our own Flint Michigan life in America experience.

Incredible as it may seem, despite the obvious constrictions on Clinton's choices, this is typical for someone in the chosen field to keep doubling down with what got them there even if it never worked very well and can't positively increase political appeal. She had to take chances with what appears very clearly now to be out of character positive, visionary appeal. Or hug the football and stay down until the clock runs out, which apparently works - as most things do- only for the establishment owning GOP.

Barred from future debates??? What future debates? Well those needed in future caucus states to game one campaign's needs suddenly and rigged beforehand over another. This latest tactic has more concerns than just Iowa. We will see a variety of "events" such as these all over the electoral map depending on how the other candidates respond to this "democratic" invitation. Nice to get exposure and meet stone throwers(in a fair media environment if it existed) but it would be just as well for Sanders to keep campaigning. His own town hall event? Why not? It won't be televised and as such it can be kept out of that mercurial DWS "or else" clause.

The Clinton campaign makes the wrong response to the big donor/frontrunner trap. However far back you care to take it, at present the only borrowed genius present in modern corporate politics is something discredited and crooked that no one really wants. And Nixon is dead though Rove is not. They might notice that the media is also hurting Clinton among Dems by highlighting the worst(unwittingly?), though apparently the campaign sees that as just fine, another symptom common to centrist Dems.