2016 Postmortem
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(12,081 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)touchy!
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Guess he got upstaged by Bill Clinton and Katy Perry since the news channels all carried them live and said nothing about Sanders.
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,335 posts)Bernie won't start until the first part of November.
Iowa Poll: Clinton up by 7, but gap tightens
Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have grown in popularity in Iowa, and the gap between them has slimmed to 7 percentage points, 48 percent to 41 percent, without Joe Biden in the race, a new Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll shows.
Clinton, long the presumptive nominee, was 8 points ahead of Sanders in the Iowa Poll in late August. Her support among likely Democratic caucusgoers has climbed 5 points since then.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/10/22/iowa-poll-clinton-up-7-but-gap-tightens/74306980/
You're ruining Moh's narrative
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Response to MohRokTah (Reply #6)
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CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)Hillary is down 30 points in Iowa, since May.
Bernie is down by 10 in Iowa. Obama was down by more than that, at this point.
Gloating is for those who have something to gloat about.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)That's gonna leave a mark
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Hillary doesn't need your kind of "help".
I'm proud of all our candidates.
You seem to be a not so nice kind of person.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)after Sanders supporters stop.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)FarPoint
(12,309 posts)The crowds are overwhelming!!!! Grassroots gone wild!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)the biggest bullies. Maybe they feel safe there.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)You think that's funny?
Not as funny as the divine adoration of Clinton because she sat in a room with a bunch of incompetent fools for 11 hours. Who wants to go the that for the next 4 to 8 years?
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)SITTING PRESIDENTS AND VICE PRESIDENTS WHO HAVE TESTIFIED BEFORE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES ___________________
President Abraham Lincoln1 House Judiciary Committee February 13, 1862
"President Lincoln today voluntarily appeared before the House Judiciary Committee," reported the New York Tribune, "and gave testimony in the matter of the premature publication in the Herald of a portion of his last annual message." Lincoln's message to Congress in December 1861 had been published in the New York Herald on the same morning that it was sent to Capitol Hill. The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by John Hickman, investigated the leak and called Herald correspondent Henry Wikoff to testify. Wikoff refused to divulge his source, citing "an obligation of strictest secrecy." Given Wikoff's close friendship with Mary Todd Lincoln, many assumed that the correspondent was protecting the First Lady. The committee ordered the sergeant at arms to hold Wikoff. Then the President went to the Capitol for a private meeting with Judiciary Committee members, to assure them that no member of his family was involved. The next day the committee released Wikoff.
Vice President Schuyler Colfax
House Select Committee to Investigate the Credit Mobilier January 7, 1873
Vice President Colfax appeared voluntarily before the House Select Committee concerning his ownership of stock in Credit Mobilier, a company involved in the construction of the federally-subsidized transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad. During the previous presidential campaign, in response to newspaper criticism, Colfax had denied that the railroad's agent, Congressman Oakes Ames, had given or offered him stock in the Credit Mobilier. Before the committee, Colfax testified that he had first agreed to buy five hundred dollars worth of the stock from Ames but later decided against making the purchase; but that Ames never repaid him the five hundred dollars. Oakes Ames, however, produced evidence of Colfax's check to him for five hundred and thirty-four dollars and his check to Colfax for twelve hundred dollars, the difference being a sixty percent cash dividend.
President Woodrow Wilson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee August 19, 1919
Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took testimony from President Wilson at the White House, concerning the treaty of peace with Germany, and establishment of a League of Nations. The President opened by reading a statement and then answered questions for three and a half hours, after which the President invited them to stay for lunch. Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge explained that the committee was "very desirous of getting information on certain points which seem not clear and on which they thought information would be of value to them." Despite Wilson's efforts, the Senate twice rejected the Treaty of Versailles, and the United States never joined the League.
President Gerald R. Ford
Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, House Judiciary Committee October 17, 1974
President Ford voluntarily appeared before the Subcommittee at the Capitol to explain the reasons behind his pardon of former President Richard M. Nixon. Ford insisted that the pardon had not been prearranged, but was the result of his concern over reports of Nixon's deteriorating mental and physical health.
1President George Washington testified before the entire Senate on the subject of Indian treaties on August 22, 1789.
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FORMER PRESIDENTS WHO HAVE TESTIFIED BEFORE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES
______________________
Theodore Roosevelt
House Committee on Investigation of the United States Steel Corporation August 5, 1911 (Steel industry)
Theodore Roosevelt
Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections October 4, 1912 (campaign expenditures)
Harry S. Truman
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations April 18, 1955 (United Nations Charter)
Gerald R. Ford
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Senate Judiciary Committee March 1, 1983 (bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution)
prepared by the Senate Historical Office and the Senate Library 2004
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Of course if you're Dubya, you don't have to testify under oath.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)There's a retired couple worried about their Social Security, a college student wondering how she'll pay off her student loans, a gay couple who appreciate a candidate who's long been on the right side of the right to marry, and an African-American who knows Bernie marched with Dr. King, is willing to get arrested to protect the civil rights of all Americans, and who agrees and understands why Black Lives Matter.
These are the most important people I can imagine, not one of them has a PAC or bundles their donations, but they all love their country, and they all care deeply about their communities.
pinebox
(5,761 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)serious contenders.
not entertainers, celebrities and household names.
I wonder how many of those at Hillary's rally showed up for the Katy Perry entertainment?
Hillary's gotta buff that unenthused crowd and bring in the youth somehow!
meanwhile, Bernie pulls em in on issues alone.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)I live in Iowa, and all three channels (ABC, CBS and NBC at 5:30 p.m.) covered both Sanders and Clinton. I flipped through all the channels, because I was curious about the coverage.
All three networks covered Bernie. All three networks covered Hillary. And they gave equal time to all and showed decent crowds for both candidates.
I'd also like to add that even though Katy Parry headlined for Hillary--both Hillary's crowd and Bernie's crowd size was very similar. Isn't that interesting. I wonder what her crowd size would have been if not for the pop singer's appearance?
Hillary held her rally in a parking lot outside where the Jefferson-Jackson day dinner is being held.
You may want to check your facts before you post.
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)Response to MohRokTah (Reply #3)
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brooklynite
(94,481 posts)Can't have people like that in Washington...
FarPoint
(12,309 posts)Half of the Democratic Congress wouldn't be in their seat without Bill Clinton. Sounds like right wing bullying!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)Looks like quite a long line of people.
Uncle Joe
(58,335 posts)Thanks for the thread, pinebox.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Last edited Sat Oct 24, 2015, 08:15 PM - Edit history (1)
Just realized what it was. Great pics.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)fall as come to Iowa. Along with Bernie!
K&R
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Beautiful bridge! Beautiful supporters!
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)DiehardLiberal
(580 posts)Go Bernie!!
bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,761 posts)leftcoastmountains
(2,968 posts)Love the pictures!
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Here in California, we really love Bernie.
I haven't seen any polls on California, but everyone I talk to likes Bernie, and we have 55 votes on the electoral college.
questionseverything
(9,646 posts)the ones i can see with my own eyes