2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBillionaires for a continuation of the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Clinton plutocracy of the 1%!
IN LIGHT OF THIS:?
CAN WE REALLY ACT SURPRISED BY THIS?
think
(11,641 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Hillary is still going to be the nominee.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)My, my, my, so many '08 Obama supporters here (who curiously didn't think we should all wait for California to vote back then) shredding him now.
He's one of the best presidents we've had in years, in some ways better than Bill, and you're gonna trash him? Whatever. Go back to the Greens.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Hillary Clinton is at least new money, but crept inside the bubble quite a while ago.
Only Sanders is already running the kind of financially clean campain we've begun to realize we need. That would be a fundamental change, and I hope America gets on board with his example.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)... and putting the Clintons and Obama in the same category as Bush is outrageous.
The two parties are not the same.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)all bad stuff.
I guess, really, it all depends on one's tolerance level for a leader who does bad stuff.
NCTraveler
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angstlessk
(11,862 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)She seems to do well without a crown.
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Vote2016
(1,198 posts)FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)the bottom 90% of the top 1% are not really their kind of people.
Attorney in Texas
(3,373 posts)LexVegas
(6,050 posts)vintx
(1,748 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)APRIL 5, 2016 11:01 AM
Bernie Sanders Admits He Isnt Sure How to Break Up Big Banks
Its something I have not studied, honestly, the legal implications of that.
Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has made railing against inequality, Wall Street malfeasance, and corporate greed a cornerstone of his populist campaign. But in a newly published transcript of a conversation between the Democratic presidential candidate and the editorial board of the New York Daily News, Sanders admitted he has not formulated any specific plans to break up the big banks or bring jobs back from overseas.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/04/bernie-sanders-break-up-banks
Nanjeanne
(4,935 posts)It's true that AAs did vote more heavily for Clinton in areas like Hartford and New Haven but Sanders won quite a number of districts in the state. Where did Hillary make her big gains?
Very large margins in cities like Greenwich, New Canaan, Darien, Westport, etc. the Gold Coast of Fairfield County winning about 70% of the vote. Those millionaires and billionaires can't conceive of not having their tax havens and corporate subsidies and watching their wealth explode at the expense of everyone else.
Even Newtown, where Clinton played the Sanders doesn't care about your children didn't buy it in such large numbers. Those percentages were only 52-45. But the beautiful artsy towns like Bridgewater, Brooklyn, Preston, Haddem, Cornwall, etc all Bernie. And the middle class districts like New Milford, Shelton, etc. all Bernie as well.
Very telling to me as someone who lives in this state and knows the areas well.
http://www.courant.com/politics/elections/hc-connecticut-primary-results-20160426-htmlstory.html