The Clintons' fear: Bernie "will foment a large wave first-time voters and liberals" like Barack did

[Green Forest]

Cross posted to GDP

According to Democrats close to the Clintons and involved with her campaign, Mrs. Clinton and the former president are also unnerved by the possibility that Mr. Sanders will foment a large wave of first-time voters and liberals that will derail her in Iowa, not unlike Barack Obama’s success in 2008, which consigned Mrs. Clinton to a third-place finish. They have asked her advisers about the strength of the campaign’s data modeling and turnout assumptions in Iowa, given that her 2008 campaign’s predictions were so inaccurate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/us/politics/hillary-clinton-regrets-not-attacking-bernie-sanders-earlier-her-allies-say.html?_r=0

The Clintons are in meltdown because voters in Iowa and NH are FEELING THE BERN!!

[Warren Stupidity]

1. So basically she wants to not get out the vote.

Hmmmmm.

[Wilms]

10. And never minding about down ticket-races.

Her next book title could be, "At Any Cost".

[tk2kewl]

12. Terrible fear...

The Democratic Party might become the people's party once again.

It scares the shit out of the ruling class.

[scottie55]

22. That About Sums It Up

Just Ask DWS.

[Marty McGraw]

31. ( ._.)

[INdemo]

23. You have a very good point there.

Remember that the last time she ran for President these first time voters were only 10 and 4th graders and now they are College Freshman or High School Seniors.....and a huge percentage of them are Sanders Supporters.

They could be labeled as the Generation that began the new Revolution.

[SheilaT]

2. The Hillary gang can console themselves

by knowing that Martin O'Malley is unlikely to gain more supporters in Iowa than Clinton, so she's almost assured of a second place there. And unless Bernie totally blows her out of the water, and gets at least 70% of the caucus-goers, they'll still claim victory, I'm sure. And they'll also dismiss Bernie's coming win in NH, since that's a neighbor of VT, and they'll swear, absolutely swear that he'll dry up and blow away like old leaves in the fall.

Won't happen that way.

I'm waiting for the official return of the PUMAs.

[INdemo]

25. There is SC and Nev

Bernie's Momentum form IA and NH with a win at either SC and Nev is going to really cause problems for Hillary.


And just think about the flow of contributions....He will get a pretty good hall after Sunday because i think he will win that Debate>
*And I really cleaned it up there.....

[SheilaT]

26. Yes, SC and NV.

I haven't read much about current polling in either place, but I suspect Bernie will do much better than expected in the first, and may well pull out a win in the second. And along the way, he will get more and more media coverage, which will only benefit him. Plus, if Team Hillary continues to pull dumb stunts, like Chelsea, he will do better and better along the way.

[Gore1FL]

32. A "not that big of a loss" in those states for Sanders would be harmful to Clinton.

Those states are expected Clinton strongholds. In 2008, she won NV, but is wasn't the firewall the campaign expected it to be.

If he's hot out of IA and NH this could get interesting in a hurry!

[TIME TO PANIC]

3. Well, then she should have run on the republican ticket.

The base will no longer tolerate corporate democrats, who are willing to compromise with fascist.

[LiberalElite]

5. I think that's what she can do next time -

IMO she's perfectly positioned for the GOP move to the left.

[TIME TO PANIC]

8. It's a shame the Republicans hate her,

for all the wrong reasons.

[LiberalElite]

9. Maybe by the time their backs are really

to the wall they'll decide she isn't so bad - for them.

[TIME TO PANIC]

13. In a perfect world,

all the DLC/Third Way Democrats will return to the Republican party, and the Democratic Party will return to being the party of the people.

[LiberalElite]

14. when I think of all the times I and a more "political"

friend wondered what the fk was happening to the Democratic Party while Bubba was in the WH - all the politicians declaring "I'm not a liberal!" - then we voted for him again, I suppose because he "felt our pain". :

Sometimes I consider changing my screen name to Bamboozled by Bubba.

[TIME TO PANIC]

18. I still have a hard time disliking Bill, even though he did a lot of damage.

I have a theory that all the fake Clinton scandals are used to manipulate the base into defending the Clintons, and to distract us from what they're really doing.

[Proserpina]

15. In our imperfect world, it may take another cycle or two

But it will happen: Believe!

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. More voters!!! We can't allow that!

[CharlotteVale]

6. It's bizarre how she has learned nothing since 2008.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. She should send DWS out to do more interviews.

[Plucketeer]

30. She should send DWS

to another planet.

[stillwaiting]

11. If Bernie did that it would be GREAT for our country and the Democratic Party.

But, the Clintons' fear it.

Lovely.

[libdem4life]

16. They are prescient, me thinks.

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. Damn those stinkin' rotten Liberals!

She sounds like G.W BUSH! He and his party tried to make "Liberal" a dirty word.

Proof she's a CONSERVATIVE. Her Third Way bullshit doesn't belong in the Democratic Party.

She's toast.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[Still In Wisconsin]

19. Hillary now wanting to suppress first-time Dem voters. Awesome.

It really is all about the Clintons isn't it?

[jalan48]

20. It's all about Hillary.

[MisterP]

21. used to be only ONE party relying on suppressing voter turnout

[mother earth]

24. Anyone with a brain who is part of 99% is feeling the Bern,

to do otherwise only empowers the l% who already rule the world.

Fear us, #WeAreTheRevolution #PopulistWave

#EndOligarchy #EndStatusQuo #EnoughIsEnough

[Mike Nelson]

27. I think she's wrong...

...more voters will help both Bernie and herself. Besides, she got more actual votes in 2008...

[Helen Borg]

28. "foment", huh?

As if it was a bad thing...

[cantbeserious]

29. Foment - Absolutely - No More - DNC, DLC, Third-Way - Establsihment Politics

eom

[DJ13]

33. Conservatives always want to limit the number of people voting

Thats their only chance to win.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

34. "They have asked her advisers about the strength of the campaign’s data modeling"

I bet they're spending at least a half a million to crunch those numbers.

[sorechasm]

35. Hillary just discovered what DU'ers were telling Hillary supporters for 6 mos.

but refused to listen. Now they're surprised and have no plan but to attack Bernie, the most sincere man in DC? She could have changed tactics 6 mos. ago, maybe abandon Wall St. ties. Stand on principal.

Instead, she panics, stretches the truth beyond recognition with fables she hardly believes herself, and doubles down on positions directed by the 1%. In comparison to Bernie, all leaders are going to seem insincere. Nobody's perfect, but to double-down with insincere tactics reeks of desperation.

These are not endearing qualities for a President.

The public would like her more if she just admitted that it was a mistake to lie about Bernie's Health Care Plan. She makes mistakes like the rest of us.