So, Chris Matthhews has a new Hero Politician to send a tingle up his leg — let the butch pantsuit jokes begin! But I’m more interested in the exchange at the 7:45 mark:

Amanpour: Should there be mandatory voting, in the United States of America? HRC: No, but there should be automatic registration. I think, when a young person [audience applause] — when a young person turns eighteen, that young person should be registered to vote. And I deplore the efforts by some to restrict that right…

Matthews immediately cuts away from the tape to tweak (former RNC chair) Michael Steele, who is forced to say, on camera, “I have always been an advocate — the more participants — [Matthews interrupts to demand his opinion of automatic registration] — I have to take, viscerally, I don’t have have a negative response to that, I think anything we can do to encourage a young person to be an engaged and committed citizen to the country, through voting — absolutely, I think it’s something that’s worth, um, ahh, putting out there, and further exploration, if that’s what we want to do. I agree with her, that my party needs to get off this perception — if not in fact — the noise about cutting back, about creating this, these hills and these valleys, and these difficult — ” [Matthews: “Thirty-six states, led by Republican legislators, are trying to redu- to make it harder to vote!”] (Then Joan Walsh starts talking about North Carolina, where there used to pre-registration for high school seniors.)

Seems to me, whether or not Clinton decides to run again in 2016, she has considerable cred with the poll-responding public as the Sensible Citizen Spokesperson. If she can use that cred to hammer the idea that voting is something which every citizen should do (get regular dental checkups, don’t litter, make sure to register and vote in every election), well, there will be plenty of sneering from the media about nanny-state finger-wagging, but she can still reset the conversation from the self-serving Repub jabber about voting as a (heavily restricted) privilege to its proper standing as a public responsibility…

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Apart from discussing the duties of citizenship, what’s on the agenda for the evening?