Over the next two hours in this debate -- officially sanctioned, by the way, by the National Democratic Party -- the candidates for president of the United States will be questioned by both journalists, as well as ordinary people, undecided voters likely to attend those caucuses here in Nevada.
CNN can try to make excuses if they parse the "undecided voters likely to attend" to mean they were undecided Democrats. But that is what it would be, Clintonian parsing. "Ordinary people" does NOT include party operatives. "Those caucuses" is NOT the same as "democratic caucuses" to most of the country that does not experience the caucus process. I don't know if the Nevada republicans caucus on the same day or not but why should I? I don't live in Nevada. CNN gave the strong impression that this was questioning by ordinary independents and they knew or easily could have known that it was a sham.