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Is Hillary Clinton-Bernie Sanders The New RFK-Eugene McCarthy?

To Be Young Was Very Heaven…

Sanders is like 1968’s Gene McCarthy: a single-issue candidate who has the kids fired up. But he’s moving beyond that. Can Clinton respond?

Eleanor Clift
Eleanor Clift
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Eleanor Clift

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