My number 1s (tied) are Sanders/Warren. I’ll vote for the one with the momentum when the time comes.

I’m watching Pete as well. A brilliant intellectual scores a lot of points with me, but I don’t know Pete’s policy positions - this is nice to hear though.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

WOW, a THINKER!

I'm shocked he didn't do the math in his head right on the spot.

"Is that something you would support?"

Asking Pete if he would support or oppose Warren's proposal.

I saw the same question in 60-Minutes' questioning of Howard Schultz who dodged the question about college costs and Medicare expansion proposed by other candidates claiming it would not work. Here is what Cooper (and before him, Stahl) should have asked:

"The cost of higher education is crippling families and leaving student graduates burdened with tens of thousands of dollars in education loans. What is your solution to that problem?"

And if he responds with a repeat of the description of the problem, how bad it is, how important education is, that "we need to have a national conversation about it", or hits on the solution of another candidate - Cut him off!! "Thank you. But that was not the question! The question was - what IS YOUR SOLUTION?"

Stahl never did this with Schultz. And neither do other members of the media.

Enough!

She explained redlining and subprime mortgages in an extremely and engaging manner.

Pete has talked about these topics as well - I want to hear more from him on college costs/debt and lifting up families who’ve been held down.

how to address it. Whether it's 100% free college or "inducing" states to invest responsibly in the education of their populace by making state colleges affordable are details to work out.

Incredible that a mayor running for president could still have 6-figure student debt, but it's common. In the age of computerized personal teaching, when education should be both far less expensive to provide and far better overall, incredible that this could be.

Incredible that the Republicans have become so corrupted and extreme that they're actually trying to de-educate much of the populace in various ways.

Outstanding Student loan debt is estimated at $1.5 trillion.

on my husband's relatively modest income. Cheap education -- community college, then almost all at "commuter" campuses of the state university system, but it was cheap. Community required no saving at all, $50 plus books and a few fees for a full semester load. State tuition expenses were like back-to-school wardrobes, vacations, or Christmas gifts, an expense we'd have to plan ahead for, but that's all.

That was good and healthy. And I was fortunate to grow up still in the liberal-dominated New Deal era.

So sad that literally almost half our population, over 200 million people, were born after that, after our nation shifted conservative and anti-government, anti-tax, anti-education corruption of what those who came before had built began. People growing up in these mean times and unable to come up with $10-20K for a certificate program in what's really trade school, not college, are dreadfully common.

Who before this could have believed the electorate would allow this to happen?

is that on average, graduates enjoy substantially higher incomes. What is not said is the burden of debt means there is a strong incentive for them to abandon their vocation and seek the highest paying jobs. I think 3/4 of teachers leave in to first 2 years.

And then there’s Mayor Pete working at McKinsy. With his talent he could have sought stratospheric money, but came back to his home town, chosing public service

never achieve. And as you say about Mayor Pete and those like him.

We can and so need to restore teaching to not just a viable career but to the kind of lifestyle choice that once drew and kept many good people who could make far more money in business. Those long summers mostly free that were such a nice perk are gone, but other benefits, including short periods off and respect and admiration for important work, could replace them.

Traditional conservatism at its best once believed in protecting what was proven to work well. We need our conservatives to be their best, not the worst they've been manipulated into. The potential's in them.

Oh, well. Happily, all our more likely candidates are together that this is a problem to be fixed.