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riversedge

(69,716 posts)
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 09:14 AM Mar 2016

Sestak widens lead in Senate race as Clinton, Trump top presidential candidates

Source: the times-tribune.com






http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/sestak-widens-lead-in-senate-race-as-clinton-trump-top-presidential-candidates-1.2022541




Sestak widens lead in Senate race as Clinton, Trump top presidential candidates
BY BORYS KRAWCZENIUK


Published: March 24, 2016



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...........The poll found Mrs. Clinton, a former secretary of state, U.S. senator and first lady, had the support of more than half of Democrats (53 percent) with almost three in 10 voters (28 percent) backing Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The Pennsylvania primary is April 26.



Mrs. Clinton also led both Mr. Trump (46 to 33 percent) and Mr. Cruz (45 to 35 percent) in theoretical head-to-head general election matchups..................
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G. Terry Madonna, Ph.D., the poll director, said none of the results in the presidential races should come as a surprise. Mrs. Clinton, with her ties to Scranton and past campaigns here by her and her husband, President Bill Clinton, is well-known in Pennsylvania, he said.

“It’s going to be hugely difficult if not virtually impossible ... for Sanders to catch her in this state,” Dr. Madonna said. “This is a quintessential Clinton state.”

Mrs. Clinton dominates the polling everywhere but the northwest, where she only leads to Mr. Sanders by 3 percentage points (46 percent to 43 percent). Her largest advantages are in Philadelphia (63 percent to 25 percent), home of the largest bloc of African-American voters, and the northeast (55 percent to 19 percent)..............

Read more: http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/sestak-widens-lead-in-senate-race-as-clinton-trump-top-presidential-candidates-1.2022541



YOU GO HILLARY!!




Gabriel Debenedetti ?@gdebenedetti 22m22 minutes ago

New PA poll illustrates Sanders' prob: he needs remaining huge states (WA CA NY...) by big #s—Clinton's up 25 in PA. http://bit.ly/1VIGcyx


ALSO**********



Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump in every national poll, by an average of double digits http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/hillary-clinton-leads-donald-trump-in-every-national-poll-by-an-average-of-double-digits/24217/ … #ImwithHer


Monmouth National Poll: Clinton 55% Sanders 37%
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/23/1505447/-Monmouth-National-Poll-Clinton-55-Sanders-37


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Sestak widens lead in Senate race as Clinton, Trump top presidential candidates (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2016 OP
K&R! stonecutter357 Mar 2016 #1
Yawn billhicks76 Mar 2016 #2
Yawn back to yah. riversedge Mar 2016 #3
Sanders is clean as a whistle. stonecutter357 Mar 2016 #6
My lack of enthusiasm matches yours Roland99 Mar 2016 #7
You Can Lead A Human To Water billhicks76 Mar 2016 #8
Excuse Me Sir billhicks76 Mar 2016 #9
Guess it's time for another trip to the re-education camp Roland99 Mar 2016 #13
Power and big money are intoxicating! ananda Mar 2016 #10
Spoken like a true............... Darb Mar 2016 #12
I like to pretend that the people who hold different opinions than me have no idea, too. LanternWaste Mar 2016 #15
And a big REC riversedge Mar 2016 #4
K&R liberal N proud Mar 2016 #5
Enormous K & R. Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #11
She had better numbers in Michigan Omaha Steve Mar 2016 #14
It will be interesting to see how this turns out BumRushDaShow Mar 2016 #16
Yes, Obama did well in Philly and the Harrisburg area. Beacool Mar 2016 #19
Actually BumRushDaShow Mar 2016 #20
I'm with Sestak. Dawson Leery Mar 2016 #17
Go Sestak and Hillary!!! Beacool Mar 2016 #18
Her ties to Scranton? KamaAina Mar 2016 #21
Instead of being sarcastic, do your due diligence. Beacool Mar 2016 #23
I read through her Wiki and found no mention of Scranton. KamaAina Mar 2016 #24
Well, now you know different. Beacool Mar 2016 #25
Pylon crystals AngryAmish Mar 2016 #22
 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
2. Yawn
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 09:47 AM
Mar 2016

People have no idea what they are getting into allowing Bill-o back in the White House. Expect more gridlock and investigations. Sanders is clean as a whistle. Have we become a party of fools? I predict the extinction of the two party system soon with only ourselves to blame.

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
7. My lack of enthusiasm matches yours
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 10:13 AM
Mar 2016

I just don't get how people back her so much. She's a compulsive liar, was AGAINST same-sex marriage until VERY recently, was FOR TPP until VERY recently (and even that turnaround seems iffy), she WON'T release Goldman-Sachs speech transcripts, she voted FOR the Iraq War at every opportunity and called it a "gift" to the middle east (yeah, the gift that keeps giving in the form of Al Qaeda and ISIS)

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
13. Guess it's time for another trip to the re-education camp
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 11:19 AM
Mar 2016

ugh...they don't even allow nap time anymore there...

ananda

(28,782 posts)
10. Power and big money are intoxicating!
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 10:57 AM
Mar 2016

Real human decency is a thing power-hungry
people don't find themselves attracted to.

But I do. Sanders is the candidate with the
only decently human message.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
15. I like to pretend that the people who hold different opinions than me have no idea, too.
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 12:11 PM
Mar 2016

I like to pretend that the people who hold different opinions than me have no idea, too, regardless of your faith-based prophecy.

BumRushDaShow

(127,297 posts)
16. It will be interesting to see how this turns out
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 12:27 PM
Mar 2016

Clinton won PA in the 2008 primary against Obama (despite the larger black turnout from Philly, where primaries here are often (sadly) snoozefests).

The bigger issue I have is with Sestak. I got a call a couple months ago from one of his canvassers and told her, in no uncertain terms, that Sestak needs to get his butt into Philly and on the air. We ran into that in 2010, where despite coming from a suburban Philly county, he basically ignored the city and thus Teabagger Toomey got in.

Beacool

(30,244 posts)
19. Yes, Obama did well in Philly and the Harrisburg area.
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 02:27 PM
Mar 2016

I expect the same with Sanders, both areas have a lot of college students. Hillary will do well in the rest of the state, as she did in 2008.

BumRushDaShow

(127,297 posts)
20. Actually
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 05:51 PM
Mar 2016

I think she will do well in Philly this go-around - notably because of her time in the current administration as a solid SOS (and she put on some major travel miles... don't know how she did it )! But turnout may be way down from the last 2 Presidential primaries. It should pick up during the GE though, given what is at stake.

Beacool

(30,244 posts)
18. Go Sestak and Hillary!!!
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 02:24 PM
Mar 2016

I have no doubt that Hillary will do quite well in PA, NJ and NY. Also in MD. This is my part of the country and I worked those states in past elections. I have no doubt that she will easily win the first three and I think that she will win MD too.

Beacool

(30,244 posts)
23. Instead of being sarcastic, do your due diligence.
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 10:49 PM
Mar 2016

Her father was born and raised in Scranton. The family has a family cabin near a lake that they still own. They would vacation there every summer. Her father is buried in Scranton.

Here's a pic of little Hillary with her Rodham grandparents in Scranton.




This is a story about the lace company in Scranton where Hillary's grandfather worked for most of his life. It closed in 2002. Notice her campaign ad from 2008 about Scranton.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3207986/The-Clinton-connection-U-S-government-worker-travels-officials-interpreter-takes-stunning-images-inside-abandoned-lace-factory-discover-Hillary-s-grandfather-worked-there.html

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