HOW BADLY IS BERNIE BURNED? “A clear win and a virtual tie in the first two races strike me as a good enough outcome to keep Sanders viable. But, her legal problems aside, Clinton remains the heavy favorite for the Democratic nomination, and a bit more so after tonight,” Paul Mirengoff writes at Power Line.

Obama’s bete noire Winston Churchill famously said that “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” But based on her “Angry, Death-Stare ‘Victory’ Speech in Iowa,” Hillary didn’t seem very thrilled to narrowly escape defeat by someone even further to the left than herself; she’s seen this horror movie before.

Related: “That moment when you’ve eeked out a tie, and your thunder gets stolen by Sticker Guy.”