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I'm Danper Mac.

On today's show, a big play for your financial data

and what tech means for the future of democracy.

But first, feeling the burn.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is now the clear frontrunner

for the Democrats' presidential nomination,

having won in New Hampshire, Nevada,

while placing a very close second in Iowa.

He's also polling very well in many of the Super Tuesday

states, and none of his moderate rivals seem interested in dropping out. The political reaction

has been kind of a mirror image of 2016, when Republicans seem to erupt in a civil war

over the possible nomination of Donald Trump, and Democrats were thrilled that their rivals

were about to put a so-called

unelectable candidate on the ballot.

Not only would they win the White House, but probably Congress to boot, and we know how that

all turned out.

Now, most business and technology executives at the time also didn't take Trump too

seriously, but did warn economic calamity if they were wrong, kind of like how many of those same people are now warning about the economic ramifications

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