![Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shakes hands with rival candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (L) and thanks him for saying that he and the American people are sick of hearing about her State Department](http://images.dailykos.com/images/170222/large/RTS4CNF.jpg?1444792307)
It doesn't matter who my candidate is, it only matters that my candidate is my candidate, and therefore my candidate won. The other candidate did reasonably well, and no hard feelings, but according to whatever metric I needed as I watched, my candidate won.
More analysis over the orange Rorschach test.
All joking aside, it was really the Democratic Party that won last night. The most memorable moment of the night was when the two leading candidates found common cause in dismissing yet another insipid question from CNN, and shook hands. Watch that moment, or even just look at that screen grab, and how they smiled as they shook hands. They're not friends who hang out together, but they clearly like and respect each other.
The campaign will heat up, but thus far, that was this primary's defining moment. The Democrats have substantive people, and as much as the relentlessly and obsessively insipid traditional media will allow, this will be a substantive primary campaign. Viewers last night saw good people engaged in substantive dialogue. They will contrast that with the cannibalistic carnival freak show that is the Republican primary campaign.
And a quick note to one of the minor candidates: You're being ignored again. Sorry. Not really.
And a quick note to another of the minor candidates: When you tried to become relevant by enabling the CNN irrelevance, you got flattened. With one syllable: No.