If you ever wondered why Sanders seems to attack Democrats & the Democratic Party more that the GOP?

[baldguy]

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-endorsement-primary/

2016 endorsements

FiveThirtyEight has collected 306 endorsements so far, out of a possible total of approximately 585.

Candidate Date Endorser Position Pts.

Hillary Clinton
12/16/15 Linda Sánchez Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
12/15 Brad Ashford Rep. (D-Neb.) 1
12/7 Michael E. Capuano Rep. (D-Mass.) 1
11/30 Jerry McNerney Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
11/30 Jackie Speier Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
11/30 Anna G. Eshoo Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
11/30 Maxine Waters Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
11/30 Pete Aguilar Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
11/19 John A. Yarmuth Rep. (D-Ky.) 1
11/17 Donna F. Edwards Rep. (D-Md.) 1
11/17 Jack Reed Sen. (D-R.I.) 5
11/17 John P. Sarbanes Rep. (D-Md.) 1
11/17 Alan Grayson Rep. (D-Fla.) 1
11/17 C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger Rep. (D-Md.) 1
11/16 Ruben Gallego Rep. (D-Ariz.) 1
11/14 Jay Inslee Gov. (D-Wash.) 10
11/14 Suzan DelBene Rep. (D-Wash.) 1
11/14 Denny Heck Rep. (D-Wash.) 1
11/13 Joe Donnelly Sen. (D-Ind.) 5
11/13 Ann Kirkpatrick Rep. (D-Ariz.) 1
11/13 Eleanor Holmes Norton Del. (D-D.C.) 1
11/11 Tony Cárdenas Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
11/11 Gwen Moore Rep. (D-Wis.) 1
11/11 Corrine Brown Rep. (D-Fla.) 1
11/10 Christopher A. Coons Sen. (D-Del.) 5
11/9 Bennie G. Thompson Rep. (D-Miss.) 1
11/8 Seth Moulton Rep. (D-Mass.) 1
11/5 Maria Cantwell Sen. (D-Wash.) 5
11/4 Jay Nixon Gov. (D-Mo.) 10
10/28 Jared Huffman Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
10/28 Heidi Heitkamp Sen. (D-N.D.) 5
10/27 Sherrod Brown Sen. (D-Ohio) 5
10/26 John Carney Rep. (D-Del.) 1
10/26 Thomas R. Carper Sen. (D-Del.) 5
10/23 Paul D. Tonko Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
10/21 Jack Markell Gov. (D-Del.) 10
10/20 Eliot Engel Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
10/19 Joe Courtney Rep. (D-Conn.) 1
10/16 William Keating Rep. (D-Mass.) 1
10/14 Edward J. Markey Sen. (D-Mass.) 5
10/13 Yvette D. Clarke Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
10/13 Hakeem Jeffries Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
10/5 Robert C. Scott Rep. (D-Va.) 1
10/5 John Hickenlooper Gov. (D-Colo.) 10
9/17 Maggie Hassan Gov. (D-N.H.) 10
9/13 Ann Kuster Rep. (D-N.H.) 1
9/7 David Loebsack Rep. (D-Iowa) 1
9/7 Cheri Bustos Rep. (D-Ill.) 1
9/1 Zoe Lofgren Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
8/31 Tammy Baldwin Sen. (D-Wis.) 5
8/28 Timothy J. Walz Rep. (D-Minn.) 1
8/24 Bill Pascrell Jr. Rep. (D-N.J.) 1
8/24 Bonnie Watson Coleman Rep. (D-N.J.) 1
8/24 Donald Payne Jr. Rep. (D-N.J.) 1
8/24 John Garamendi Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
8/18 Jim Himes Rep. (D-Conn.) 1
8/6 Xavier Becerra Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
8/5 Scott Peters Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
7/15 Marcia L. Fudge Rep. (D-Ohio) 1
7/15 Lois Capps Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
7/14 André Carson Rep. (D-Ind.) 1
7/13 Suzanne Bonamici Rep. (D-Ore.) 1
6/27 Niki Tsongas Rep. (D-Mass.) 1
6/26 Don Beyer Rep. (D-Va.) 1
6/26 Brenda Lawrence Rep. (D-Mich.) 1
6/23 Matthew Cartwright Rep. (D-Pa.) 1
6/23 William "Lacy" Clay Jr. Rep. (D-Mo.) 1
6/13 Tom Wolf Gov. (D-Pa.) 10
6/13 Elizabeth Esty Rep. (D-Conn.) 1
6/13 John B. Larson Rep. (D-Conn.) 1
6/7 Dannel P. Malloy Gov. (D-Conn.) 10
6/5 Steve Cohen Rep. (D-Tenn.) 1
6/4 Christopher Murphy Sen. (D-Conn.) 5
5/27 Katherine Clark Rep. (D-Mass.) 1
5/20 Peter Shumlin Gov. (D-Vt.) 10
5/14 Joseph P. Kennedy III Rep. (D-Mass.) 1
5/12 James McGovern Rep. (D-Mass.) 1
5/5 Michael F. Bennet Sen. (D-Colo.) 5
5/5 Gary Peters Sen. (D-Mich.) 5
5/4 Adam Schiff Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
5/4 José E. Serrano Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
5/4 Ed Perlmutter Rep. (D-Colo.) 1
5/4 Marc Veasey Rep. (D-Texas) 1
5/4 Jared Polis Rep. (D-Colo.) 1
5/4 Rubén Hinojosa Rep. (D-Texas) 1
5/4 Jim Cooper Rep. (D-Tenn.) 1
5/4 Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly Rep. (D-Va.) 1
5/4 Joyce Beatty Rep. (D-Ohio) 1
5/4 Kathleen Rice Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
5/4 Eddie Bernice Johnson Rep. (D-Texas) 1
5/4 Patrick Murphy Rep. (D-Fla.) 1
5/4 Mike Thompson Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
5/4 Adam Smith Rep. (D-Wash.) 1
5/4 Kathy Castor Rep. (D-Fla.) 1
5/4 Julia Brownley Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
5/4 Brad Sherman Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
5/4 Derek Kilmer Rep. (D-Wash.) 1
5/4 Sean Patrick Maloney Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
5/4 Henry Cuellar Rep. (D-Texas) 1
5/4 Daniel Kildee Rep. (D-Mich.) 1
5/4 Kurt Schrader Rep. (D-Ore.) 1
5/4 Filemon Vela Rep. (D-Texas) 1
4/29 Emanuel Cleaver Rep. (D-Mo.) 1
4/24 Robert P. Casey, Jr. Sen. (D-Pa.) 5
4/23 Cory A. Booker Sen. (D-N.J.) 5
4/23 Steve Israel Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
4/22 John Conyers Jr. Rep. (D-Mich.) 1
4/16 Gina M. Raimondo Gov. (D-R.I.) 10
4/15 Jim McDermott Rep. (D-Wash.) 1
4/14 Rosa L. DeLauro Rep. (D-Conn.) 1
4/13 Tom Udall Sen. (D-N.M.) 5
4/12 Debbie Dingell Rep. (D-Mich.) 1
4/12 Jeanne Shaheen Sen. (D-N.H.) 5
4/12 Karen Bass Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
4/12 Rick Larsen Rep. (D-Wash.) 1
4/12 Andrew M. Cuomo Gov. (D-N.Y.) 10
4/12 Diana DeGette Rep. (D-Colo.) 1
4/11 Jerrold Nadler Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
4/11 Nydia M. Velázquez Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
2/2 Brian Schatz Sen. (D-Hawaii) 5
1/29 Alcee L. Hastings Rep. (D-Fla.) 1
1/27 Judy Chu Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
1/27 Mark Takano Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
1/27 Ted Lieu Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
1/27 Madeleine Bordallo Del. (D-Guam) 1
1/27 Tammy Duckworth Rep. (D-Ill.) 1
1/27 Mazie K. Hirono Sen. (D-Hawaii) 5
1/27 Ami Bera Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
1/22 Loretta Sanchez Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
1/22 Lucille Roybal-Allard Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
1/22 Grace Napolitano Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
12/18/14 Bill Nelson Sen. (D-Fla.) 5
12/16 Al Franken Sen. (D-Minn.) 5
12/1 Barbara A. Mikulski Sen. (D-Md.) 5
12/1 Benjamin L. Cardin Sen. (D-Md.) 5
11/14 Terry McAuliffe Gov. (D-Va.) 10
11/10 Charles B. Rangel Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
10/14 Nita Lowey Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
8/5 Mark R. Warner Sen. (D-Va.) 5
7/12 Michelle Lujan Grisham Rep. (D-N.M.) 1
7/12 Martin Heinrich Sen. (D-N.M.) 5
6/21 Patrick J. Leahy Sen. (D-Vt.) 5
6/18 Rick Nolan Rep. (D-Minn.) 1
6/18 Betty McCollum Rep. (D-Minn.) 1
6/7 Richard Blumenthal Sen. (D-Conn.) 5
6/6 Bill Foster Rep. (D-Ill.) 1
6/6 Robin Kelly Rep. (D-Ill.) 1
6/5 Richard J. Durbin Sen. (D-Ill.) 5
6/4 Amy Klobuchar Sen. (D-Minn.) 5
5/22 Debbie Stabenow Sen. (D-Mich.) 5
5/4 Mark Takai Rep. (D-Hawaii) 1
5/3 Tim Kaine Sen. (D-Va.) 5
2/7 Ted Deutch Rep. (D-Fla.) 1
1/31 Joseph Crowley Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
1/29 Joe Manchin III Sen. (D-W.Va.) 5
1/28 Sander Levin Rep. (D-Mich.) 1
1/28 Luis Gutierrez Rep. (D-Ill.) 1
1/28 Mike Honda Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
1/28 Jan Schakowsky Rep. (D-Ill.) 1
1/28 Cedric Richmond Rep. (D-La.) 1
1/28 Brian Higgins Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
1/28 Danny K. Davis Rep. (D-Ill.) 1
1/28 Gregory W. Meeks Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
1/28 Grace Meng Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
1/28 Terri A. Sewell Rep. (D-Ala.) 1
1/28 Frederica Wilson Rep. (D-Fla.) 1
1/28 David Cicilline Rep. (D-R.I.) 1
1/28 Lois Frankel Rep. (D-Fla.) 1
1/28 Jim Langevin Rep. (D-R.I.) 1
1/28 Janice Hahn Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
1/28 Louise Slaughter Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
1/28 Gene Green Rep. (D-Texas) 1
1/28 Sheldon Whitehouse Sen. (D-R.I.) 5
1/28 Joaquin Castro Rep. (D-Texas) 1
1/28 Stephen F. Lynch Rep. (D-Mass.) 1
1/28 Chellie Pingree Rep. (D-Maine) 1
1/28 David Scott Rep. (D-Ga.) 1
1/28 Doris O. Matsui Rep. (D-Calif.) 1
1/28 Sheila Jackson Lee Rep. (D-Texas) 1
1/28 Steny H. Hoyer Rep. (D-Md.) 1
1/28 John Delaney Rep. (D-Md.) 1
1/28 Henry C. "Hank" Jr. Johnson Rep. (D-Ga.) 1
1/28 John Lewis Rep. (D-Ga.) 1
1/28 Richard E. Neal Rep. (D-Mass.) 1
1/13 Chris Van Hollen Rep. (D-Md.) 1
12/12/13 Dianne Feinstein Sen. (D-Calif.) 5
11/17 Kirsten E. Gillibrand Sen. (D-N.Y.) 5
11/11 Carolyn Maloney Rep. (D-N.Y.) 1
11/8 Patty Murray Sen. (D-Wash.) 5
11/7 Mark Dayton Gov. (D-Minn.) 10
11/5 Tim Ryan Rep. (D-Ohio) 1
11/2 Charles E. Schumer Sen. (D-N.Y.) 5
10/30 Barbara Boxer Sen. (D-Calif.) 5
8/18 Dina Titus Rep. (D-Nev.) 1
6/18 Claire McCaskill Sen. (D-Mo.) 5

Bernie Sanders

10/12/15 Keith Ellison Rep. (D-Minn.) 1
10/7 Raúl Grijalva Rep. (D-Ariz.) 1

Martin O'Malley

7/24/15 Eric Swalwell Rep. (D-Calif.) 1

[Scuba]

1. No, his reasons are clear to me.

[SCantiGOP]

16. Notice the big deal

whenever some obscure regional group or individual endorses Sanders? It's because both sides realize how unbalanced the race is.
Clinton is 2 or 3 to 1 ahead, has been all along and will be until primary is wrapped up in a couple of weeks.
Yes, politicians may lie, but numbers don't.

[reformist2]

45. I love the 1s, 5s and 10s next to all the names as if to indicate the importance of the endorsement!

I hate to break it to you, but the endorsement race is just a party loyalty thing. As a measure of politician's true feelings, it's meaningless.

[SCantiGOP]

46. look at the list again

10 indicates a Governor; 5 a US Senator; and 1 a House member.

[djean111]

2. This is the Democratic Primary.

And no, I don't wonder why he is doing that.

[Sheepshank]

37. So campaign promises not to attack other candidates has been......changed.

Kinda figured his word really isn't gold. Oops did I say that out loud. Am I about to get a hide for stating the obvious against Bernie Sanders?

[djean111]

38. Attacking a candidate's positions is so very NOT the fucking definition of "negative campaigning".

The gossipy shit that has no connection with the issues is............what Bernie meant.

I don't think anyone cares enough about what you say about Bernie Sanders to want to give it a hide. It certainly does not affect anyone or anything, and you don't support him anyway. So - just the usual. Shrug.

[Sheepshank]

42. Did I touch a nerve?

Of course comments like the one I just made, have earned hides in the past.

The jury is slanted. That's not a huge secret....and I only know of two jurors that have had jury privileges revoked because of nasty, emboldened juror comments that were clearly not fair or impartial. Guess which candidate they support.

[djean111]

44. No, you did not touch a nerve, my hair is not on fire, my head did not explode.

Get over yourself, would be my advice. And I suspect that those who taunt about possibly getting alerted on or hidden are just showing off or perhaps have a bit of a martyr complex. Nothing that concerns me or bothers me, sorry!

[Sheepshank]

47. while I never said you were part of the hair on fire brigade

I'll be sure to take note in the future...thanks for the heads up.

[fredamae]

3. For the same reasons I do

DLC/Al From/Kochs/Clinton (Bill)/ DWS/DNC et al sums it up.

[Thinkingabout]

4. Attacking the DNC will be another talking point used by the GOP

And Donald Trump if Sanders and Trump should be in the GE. Words have a way of returning over and over with Trump.

[Cassiopeia]

5. Or

It could be we're in the primaries, not the GE?

[demwing]

6. Is Neil Cavuto's mother a whore?

I'm not saying she is, I'm just asking...

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/8ov5kh/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-question-mark

[demwing]

7. BTW, Alan Grayson denies endorsing Clinton

how many of the rest of these are bullshit?

[sonofspy777]

8. Or how many of these were PAID for?

[NurseJackie]

14. ... or extorted! *Gasp!*

(Such silliness.)

[Armstead]

9. A Bullshit claim. You obviously haven't paid attention if you think.....

That he hasn't criticized the GOP much much more consistently, frequently and strongly over the years and now.

[shiriu]

10. Hillary Clinton's endorsements from "Florida Leadership Council" may be false

I recently watched an interview segment with Rep. Alan Grayson, where he specifically said that he did not endorse Hillary Clinton for president:

In the video, Rep. Grayson explained that he accepted Hillary Clinton's invitation for the "Florida Leadership Council", but accepting the invitation was not an endorsement of Clinton for presidency.

However, several corporations, including Nate Silver's 538 (http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-endorsement-primary/) listed pretty much all of the politicians that accepted the Florida Leadership Council invitation as endorsement for Hillary.

As to who is lying (Hillary's campaign staff or the news corporations) about the endorsements, I can't tell.

Just as Rep.Grayson, over 150 politicians accepted the invitation for the "Florida Leadership Council", and some others may be in the same situation as Grayson: http://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000151-128c-d914-a9f1-f7fefd660000

[tazkcmo]

11. No. It's obvious.

The GOP is just being the GOP while many of the Dem's are too.

[CoffeeCat]

12. His attacks reflect popular sentiment

and it's about time that someone took on the corruption in both parties.

We're very fortunate to have someone running who is the real deal; instead of the usual sound-byte slinging, corporate owned lying tool bag.

[nc4bo]

13. +1. nt

[JackInGreen]

15. Heyyogoooal

+1

[baldguy]

18. "Both parties are the same" is a RW Republican talking point

DESIGNED to stop people from voting for Democrats.

[Armstead]

20. Maybe Democrats like Clinton should stop playing into that

It would be a meaningless meme if there were not large elements of truth in it.

[baldguy]

24. Riiiiight!! It's **Clinton & her supporters** playing into that!

Not the people swallowing RW propaganda whole.

[Armstead]

29. Yes it is too broad a brush to say NO difference. But....

on too many issues regarding wealth, power and public programs, the Democrats are too close to the GOP for comfort. Bill Clinton's overall economic agenda and message ("the era of Big Government is over&quot was straight GOP.

No no one would even be paying attention to that meme if there were no elements of truth in it.

And -- what you ignore is the fact that it is NOT only GOP spinmeisters that say that. Many peopkle on the liberal/progressive side have come to that conclusion on their own because of the actions and message of the "centrist" corporate Democrats.

I wish that "meme" were ridiculous. But unfortunately it's too often too close for comfort.

[uponit7771]

40. This is false on its face, most dems like the dem president and the party

[Warren Stupidity]

17. Actually he attacks economic inequality so consistently that he hs been rightly criticized for his

tendency to refuse to discuss anything else.

Other than that you are correct that the Democratic Party establishment is backing the corporate approved center-right candidate.

[NorthCarolina]

19. I've never wondered why,

and I can assure you it has nothing to do with "party endorsements".

[KittyWampus]

21. As a candidate Sanders has laid into the GOP far more. The OP rests

on a faulty premise.

[djean111]

39. It is just one of today's memes, that's all. You are not supposed to be looking behind the

faulty meme curtain.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

22. Getting endorsements from a group that has a 14% approval rating is hardly good advertising.

[baldguy]

28. "...many Americans actually approve of the job their own district's congressional rep is doing."

Paradoxically, many Americans actually approve of the job their own district's congressional representative is doing. And those who say they know the name of their representative are even more likely to be positive about that individual's work. This may involve basically nonlegislative ways representatives benefit their districts, such as helping their constituents deal with the federal bureaucracy or bringing federal money back to the district to fund projects that benefit the local economy. Also, in an era when district borders are often drawn specifically to benefit one of the parties, many representatives are likely to be politically in tune with their districts.

Thus, when thinking about Congress as a whole, Americans are nearly as sour as they have ever been, but when they think just about their own representative, they feel much better about the job that person is doing.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/162362/americans-down-congress-own-representative.aspx

Which makes the $18M Hillary has raised for them even more important.

[CharlotteVale]

23. I just got a call from the DSCC and told them I was giving directly only to Bernie.

[baldguy]

25. Right. Let's just hand over the Senate to the GOP.

It's not like it matters or anything.

[CharlotteVale]

26. Tell it to DWS. She's the one who's endorsed Republicans.

[onecaliberal]

27. The big deal to me is how many corporatist are in the congress. Sad corrupt congress,

Owned and operated by the monied interests. Of course they'll back the candidate who is owned by the same corporations. Not to worry though. We're coming for all of them. We're going to replace them with people who want to do well for the 99% and not $.

[Punkingal]

30. I saw him on 2 shows this morning, and he said Bill's sex life should not be discussed....

So once again he defended Hillary. And he pivoted straight to an attack on Trump. You people need to give him some credit, instead of just attacking all the time.

[baldguy]

33. And yet, we have Bernistas bringing up Bill's sex life on DU all the time.

It's one of the main pillars of the GOP's "The Clinton's Can't Be Trusted" meme.

[Punkingal]

34. Well I'm not one of them. I never cared about his sex life, or anyone else's.

Why can't you give Bernie some credit for what he said?

[madokie]

43. All the time? BULLSHIT

I've never mentioned bills sex life and won't but I have said on many occasions that I don't trust Hillary and that has nothing to do with Bill. I don't trust Hillary, simple as that

[Autumn]

31. No I don't wonder, nor care. I do wonder why Hillary supporters post about Bernie so much though.

Actually, truth is I don't wonder why they post so much about Bernie . Did you see him defending Bill this morning? Bernie has so much class.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

32. Do you have any data on this?

How many times? Bernie has been in congress a long time. Before you start posting you should provide data.

[libdem4life]

35. Yep...the Beltway swarm....otherwise known as

part of the special group known as Oligarchs. See that's the point in a nutshell. Few if any names of the Peasants will ever be on An Important List. And if you're not in that group, oh well.

That's Bernie's point... and why I believe his win to be a Black Swan. One of those WTF moments. Call it a revolution absent pitchforks. The common folk now, finally, have a voice...Not Included on the List to Impress.

[Todays_Illusion]

36. Listing the conservative Democratic endorsements doesn't make Hillary more electable for me.

Look at that list, I see all of the despicable me conservative Democratic who do the work of the exploitative wealthy with much gusto and enthusiasm. No wonder President Obama didn't have a chance in hell gaining support from this list of conservative pleasing capitulators.

[Trajan]

41. The graft inherent in our system has created a cabal of sycophants ...

Which apparently includes the OP at this point ...

Hillary has the sycophant vote wrapped up ? .... Funny thing - There is a lot more democracy to process yet ...

People are going to VOTE ..... I greatly doubt they want to please their reps and senators by voting for their favorites ...

The list you provide tells us who really needs to be voted OUT of office and REPLACED ....

[Motown_Johnny]

48. Maybe he wants to fix something worth fixing.

I don't suppose that crossed your mind.