Quite frankly, Bernie Sanders is just as big a crackpot as most of the guys on the GOP side, or near-to. Free public post-secondary for all is basically just as ridiculous as a 10% flat income tax in terms of budgetary discipline. Calling wall street a fundamentally fraudulent enterprise is pretty damned extreme. I agree with certain things he supports, but there's just so much crazy there.
Martin O'Malley came across quite well as things went along, he settled into a groove. A lot of really good answers, politically, and some common sense stuff in there too. I'm not sure why he's there, since he's the very definition of an also-ran, but he certainly emphasizes the relative reasonableness of the Dem "also-rans" compared to, oh, I dunno, let's say Mike Huckabee.
Hillary is still Hillary and is pretty obviously going to be elected next year.
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