Dowd: "Hillary Battles Bernie Sanders, Chick Magnet" [View all]

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And she’s still not likable enough for the young women who were supposed to carry her forward as a Joan of Arc. According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll, Sanders won among young men and women in Iowa by 70 points. And in New Hampshire, going into the weekend, polls showed him leading with women, racking up yawning margins with women under 45 and with both sexes under 30.

Sanders’s populist surge — he raised $20 million last month, $5 million more than Hillary — has led some top Democrats to wonder if President Obama will have to step in and endorse her.

Wouldn’t that be rich? The Wellesley idealist-turned-realist needs the Chicago idealist-turned-realist who beat her last time to save her from the Vermont idealist clinging to a simple reality: Wall Street fleeced America and none of the big shots got punished.

Read the full op-ed: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/opinion/sunday/hillary-battles-bernie-sanders-chick-magnet.html

Of course, anyone who knows Maureen Dowd is aware that she has a special loathing for the Clintons (one I personally share, but hey, obviously not everyone does), and the remainder of the article savages Hillary pretty badly. She's not especially kind to Sanders either, but it provides some interesting suppositions about the psychology at work behind his opponent (particularly the whole childhood fear of poverty bit).

On her final point--"none of the big shots got punished"--this is something Warren is more than happy to hang on Obama (again, I personally share that view), but Bernie seems unwilling to make the full leap, as opposed to just pointing everyone in the direction of that conclusion. That's a little sad to me, but I get it.