Rivals hope voters (in Iowa) catch the feeding frenzy following Tuesday debate debacle.

Obama: “I think (the) debate really exposed this fault line,” he tells the Associated Press. “Senator Clinton left us wondering where she stood on every single hard question….”

Read earlier Obama statement: “Her campaign strategy is to tell the American people as little as possible….”

Chief Obama strategist David Axelrod presses second front: sealed files from Clinton’s years as first lady. “I would think she’d want everyone to have a full accounting of what she did,” he says on MSNBC’s Hardball.

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Damage control: Clinton campaign blasts “the politics of pile-on” with Internet video and statement.

Thursday Washington Post: “Clinton advisers privately criticized both her opponents and the debate’s moderators. One strategist argued that nearly half of the questions. . . were aimed at Clinton. . . . They really went from ‘Let’s talk about what I believe’ to ‘Let me try to do a gotcha against Hillary Clinton.”