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The Big Money Question at the Sanders-Clinton Debate

he threw in a line that is the nub of her defense and, in many ways, of her entire campaign: “I know this game. I’m going to stop this game.”

.. One difficulty for Clinton is that many of the voters who are drawn to Sanders—and to Donald Trump—do not believe that you can simply look at voting records and public pronouncements and understand what is going on in Washington, or in America generally. They have questions about what donors want, and may not see such inquiries as outrageous, like Clinton does. She is walking a fine line by arguing that money has a baleful influence in politics generally but has left her, personally, unaffected—Clintonian exceptionalism.