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| Democratic debate: Sanders and Clinton set to face off after data breach drama | Democratic debate: Sanders and Clinton set to face off after data breach drama |
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| The Democratic race already got a little a personal this week, when Bernie Sanders accused Hillary Clinton of facilitating extremism in Libya this week. | |
| He told my colleague Dan Roberts in a pre-debate interview she voted for intervention “without worrying, I think, about what happened the day after and the kind of instability and the rise of Isis that we have seen in Libya.” | |
| “Regime change without worrying about what happens the day after you get rid of the dictator does not make a lot of sense,” Sanders said. | |
| “I voted against the war in Iraq ... Secretary Clinton voted for that war. She was proud to have been involved in regime change in Libya, with [Muammar] Gaddafi, without worrying, I think, about what happened the day after and the kind of instability and the rise of Isis that we have seen in Libya.” | |
| Clinton has previously defended her role in airstrikes against Gaddafi in 2011, arguing he was a “murderous dictator ... who had American blood on his hands” and there was pressure for US action from European and Arab allies. | |
| Related: Sanders: Clinton's pursuit of 'regime change' in Libya helped rise of Isis | |
| 12.26am GMT00:26 | |
| The Democratic National Committee, apparently not content to schedule a debate at the odd hour of 8pm the Saturday before Christmas – Sanders and O’Malley have complained – has also decided to deter the press by telling them to congregate in an ice-skating rink. | |
| My colleague Lauren Gambino tweets rink-side, where debate officials have handed hand warmers. | |
| It's as cold as it look. #DemDebate DemDebate pic.twitter.com/HhT2r1eqvG | |
| 12.15am GMT00:15 | |
| What’s this voter database kerfuffle about, anyway? My colleague Ben Jacobs takes apart the odd political scandal, and rules that everybody – Clinton, Sanders, the Democratic party – comes out a loser: | |
| The drama started on Wednesday morning, when several Sanders campaign staffers discovered that due to a software glitch in the voter file shared by all Democratic presidential campaigns, they could see proprietary data of the Clinton campaign. | |
| The staffers started exploring. In particular, they looked at the support scores the Clinton campaign had compiled in different states. This is proprietary information generated when a campaign, based on polling, modeling and demographic data, estimates the likelihood of a given voter’s support. | |
| The Sanders staffers said that they were only looking at the information in order to test the vulnerabilities of the system. The DNC and the Clinton campaign insisted they were looking to take advantage of the glitch. | |
| It is likely that aspects of both answers are correct. Political staffers are trained to be aggressive and that it’s always safer to beg forgiveness than ask permission. Without any effort, the Sanders staffers were given a rare window into the Clinton campaign’s internal efforts. It would have been hard to resist. | |
| The Clinton campaign claimed that “our data was stolen”, but that doesn’t seem to have been the case. What the Sanders staffers did was more like rifling through someone’s belongings and eyeballing each object – before putting it back. | |
| Such actions were unprecedented, though, and should embarrass the Sanders campaign. Even if it wasn’t an intentional hack, it represented remarkably bad judgment. | |
| And then the DNC overreacted and cut off the Sanders campaign’s access to the voter file. Every list of voters to target comes out of the voter file, whether it is intended to find volunteers, identify supporters or raise money. Every bit of data a campaign collects goes back into the voter file. | |
| It is as essential to a campaign as electricity is to any household. In an unprecedented move, the DNC pulled the plug. | |
| Related: Democratic debate: candidates to clash amid data scandal that hurts all involved | |
| 11.45pm GMT23:45 | 11.45pm GMT23:45 |
| Live from Manchester, New Hampshire, it’s debate night! Welcome to our live coverage of the third Democratic presidential debate, and thanks for joining us. | Live from Manchester, New Hampshire, it’s debate night! Welcome to our live coverage of the third Democratic presidential debate, and thanks for joining us. |
| Tonight’s debate is at St Anselm College, a Catholic liberal arts school where finals just ended, freeing undergrads for the holidays. No such luck for the three Democratic contenders for president, who’ve been called away from their families to face each other and a televised test on foreign affairs and America. | Tonight’s debate is at St Anselm College, a Catholic liberal arts school where finals just ended, freeing undergrads for the holidays. No such luck for the three Democratic contenders for president, who’ve been called away from their families to face each other and a televised test on foreign affairs and America. |
| But while the Democrats shared some good cheer in their first two debates, don’t expect the holiday spirit to make an appearance tonight. The Democratic race took a strange and dramatic turn this week, when staffers for the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, progressives’ beloved anti-Scrooge, exploited a voter database glitch to look at proprietary data of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The Democratic National Committee suspended Sanders from using the critical shared database, Sanders sued, and the DNC backed down. | But while the Democrats shared some good cheer in their first two debates, don’t expect the holiday spirit to make an appearance tonight. The Democratic race took a strange and dramatic turn this week, when staffers for the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, progressives’ beloved anti-Scrooge, exploited a voter database glitch to look at proprietary data of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The Democratic National Committee suspended Sanders from using the critical shared database, Sanders sued, and the DNC backed down. |
| Staffers for Clinton, the presidential candidate of Christmas past, accused the rival campaign of stealing, and everybody came out bruised, confused and feeling hostile. Third candidate Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland, was somewhere off to the side, doing something down at 3%. | Staffers for Clinton, the presidential candidate of Christmas past, accused the rival campaign of stealing, and everybody came out bruised, confused and feeling hostile. Third candidate Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland, was somewhere off to the side, doing something down at 3%. |
| Clinton leads Sanders 56% to 28% nationally, but trails him 47% to 45% in New Hampshire, according to poll averages. Their duel (truel?) with O’Malley, over national security, gun control, foreign affairs and more, is slated to start at 8pm ET. | Clinton leads Sanders 56% to 28% nationally, but trails him 47% to 45% in New Hampshire, according to poll averages. Their duel (truel?) with O’Malley, over national security, gun control, foreign affairs and more, is slated to start at 8pm ET. |
| Along for the ride this evening here at Guardian US are: | Along for the ride this evening here at Guardian US are: |
| Updated at 12.00am GMT | Updated at 12.00am GMT |