leaders move to the center and to the right as they were trying to sort of win the house majority and the senate majority. then they lost those and are thinking, why did we recruit all these people who are conservative and move more to the right? i think that s bernie sanders appeal. i also don t think it s as damaging to hillary clinton as it would be to a first-time candidate where someone could say, it s really not your time. it s not the same as it used to be, as for example, when her husband first ran, where you needed to win a primary to raise the money to get the bus fare to go to the next state. that s not true anymore. you can run a more national strategy now than 20 years ago. it would still be damaging and expose her weaknesses, but i don t think it would kill her. i agree with chris, i think new hampshire is his best bet. i m just looking at the psychology of it, the psychic damage of somebody who entered the race as a front-runner like we ve never seen running against a