This was a fairly pleasant weekend for Bernie Sanders. He got a bunch of words in edgewise at the CNN debate; he won three out of four states, picking up 53 delegates (though Hillary picked up 64); and there is an erotic coloring book about him.

The book is by an illustrator named Nicole Daddona, and it basically looks like the kind of thing you'd find doodled in the margin of a smitten teenager's notebook. Muscular Bernie flexes on the White House lawn, beefcake Bernie stirs a bowl containing "tasty AF universal healthcare," you probably get the joke by now.

The whole thing is a little surreal — in real life, Bernie is probably not going to win any prizes for his physique — but then again: First they laughed at Bernie, then they fought him, then he won Mr. Universe.

Or maybe Mr. Vice-Universe? One of his strategists suggested this weekend that Bernie might have a place by Hillary's side as VP nominee.

This is all still speculative, of course, since Bernie's still very much in the race. He's trailing 200-ish delegates behind Hillary if you only count the ones chosen by voters. If you include superdelegates, she's ahead by 600. But last night's debate made it clear that he's not giving up.

(And he's not giving up his erotic podcast Dirty Bernie either.)

As for the debate? It was possibly one of the best Democratic debates of the season. Because the Democrats are behaving mostly like adults, there weren't any brawls like at the Republican fight. But CNN took an interesting approach the directing the show: they seeded it with (mostly) highly specific questions from locals. That forced the candidates to come up with concrete suggestions for real problems. The result was an event that sometimes felt more like a productive brainstorming session than a debate.

There were also some floppy questions: CNN ended the evening by making the candidates talk about their personal religious beliefs, which was gross. I know it's a topic on which a lot of people feel connected to each other, but the question "Is God relevant?" completely deflated all of the productive conversation that came before it.

More than anything else, this weekend was a reminder that Democratic voters are in pretty good hands — at least compared to Republicans, whose leaders' inability to run the country now seems to extend to an inability to run their own party.

It's always been a moral imperative to vote for Democrats over Republicans.

But never before has it also been such a pleasure to do so.