The Senate Votes That Divided Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders

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Well, this is damn interesting!
Let's do a head to head comparison of where the candidates were when both were in the Senate.
This is but a sample....there is more at the link.

The Senate Votes That Divided Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/upshot/the-senate-votes-that-divided-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders.html

............In many of the cases in which she differed with Mr. Sanders, who represents Vermont and is also running for the Democratic presidential nomination, Mrs. Clinton went with the crowd. She voted with an overwhelming majority of her colleagues, including Republicans. Her positions on the votes that differed from Mr. Sanders represented policy differences, but they may have also reflected political calculations by Mrs. Clinton, who was preparing for a presidential run in 2008.
The 31 times that Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders disagreed happened to be on some the biggest issues of the day, including measures on continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an immigration reform bill and bank bailouts during the depths of the Great Recession. Mr. Sanders, who formally kicked off his campaign Tuesday evening in Burlington, Vt., was opposed to all these actions.

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1. Early in the primary, her camp insisted they were alike and, if anything, she was more liberal.

To bolster that falsehood, they cited that most of their Senate votes were alike. Well, duh. They were both in the Democratic caucus. However, when they differed, it was on important issues and he was correct; she was right--and not in a good way.

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2. Exactly it's those differences which define them

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3. k & r (nt)

[zappaman]

4. Ok. n/t

[AtomicKitten]

5. She voted to block Guantanamo detainees from being transferred to US prisons.

Throwing another monkeywrench in Obama's quest to close it. Bernie voted for the measure. This is an issue I care about.

[Fairgo]

6. the most accurate assay of your values

is the history of your actions

[Wilms]

7. ^