Attorney in Texas
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Brand Spanking New Ipsos Reuters Poll: Sanders Crushing Clinton in 18-35 Year Old Demographics!
Clinton is losing to Sanders in the following Demographics:
18-29 year olds - 66% Sanders to 17% Clinton Sanders is also beating Clinton losing among the very liberal 53% Sanders to 40% to Clinton. Sanders is leading 53% to 44% among Democrats who report no religious affiliation Sanders is also leading 45% to 44% among Democrats who are single and have never been married. You can play with the filters to skew the poll to suit your agenda, but Reuters interprets the Reuters poll as 57% Clinton to 29% Sanders (no meaningful change from Reuters last poll). This is a nationwide internet poll (and there is no nationwide primary vote). |
Posted by Attorney in Texas | Tue Dec 1, 2015, 07:08 PM (39 replies)
68% of Democrats find Clinton trustworthy, only 35% of Independents and 4% of Republicans. By gender
only 30% of men and 41% of women find Clinton trustworthy. By education level, only 37% of those with a college degree and 35% of those without a degree find Clinton trustworthy.
Clinton's trustworthiness might be enough to barely win a primary because Democrats are the only demographic where a majority of voters do not distrust her, but the voters' lack of trust in Clinton would be fatal in the general election because voters consider honesty and trustworthiness to be key issues when choosing a candidate: ![]() With a virtual monopoly on "establishment" support, the constituency Clinton lacks is the voters. |
Posted by Attorney in Texas | Tue Dec 1, 2015, 04:52 PM (24 replies)
from Clinton email dump: Hawkish Republican Lindsay Graham to support Hawkish Hillary Clinton?
From 15 must-read Clinton emails, here is discussion of number 2 (from Michael Posner to Jacob Sullivan to Clinton):
Sen. Graham and I were on the same flights back from Kabul last night. |
Posted by Attorney in Texas | Tue Dec 1, 2015, 12:36 PM (2 replies)
Sanders' view are to the left of the mainstream; Clinton's views are self-serving and ever shifting
Neither candidate is perfectly electable: one candidate needs to persuade the voters to a more progressive plan for our counrty and the other candidate needs to win back lost trust.
We should ask -- what are the candidates doing to improve their electability and to buttress against their main weaknesses in the general election? Sanders With Sanders, the challenge is show America that we are better than what we have accomplished so far. Outside of the US, the rest of the industrialized world can afford 1. universal health care that does not pay a huge portion of the cost as a ransom to private insurers; There are those in the US who say we cannot afford the benefits which are so widely enjoyed by people outside of the US. Those naysayers underestimate us as a people and a country. Sanders' main challenge in the campaign is disproving the naysayers who would sell America short. Bringing voters to see that our society can be a better, more equitable, and more just society is not an easy task, but it is far from insurmountable. Already, a majority of the US wants a single payer Medicare-for-all type health care system, even larger majorities favor paid parental leave including both maternal and paternal leave, and still larger majorities favor a $15 an hour minimum wage. We are a progressive nation, but we lack the political fortitude to adopt progressive policies, and Sanders' task is to build that progressive groundswell. Is Sanders working to improve his electability by buttressing against his main weaknesses in the general election? Yes. Sanders is focused on the issues that a silent majority favors and which he will champion. Clinton With Clinton, the challenge is winning back the voters' trust. Of all the candidates in both parties, "Clinton has the lowest rating for honesty as American voters say 60 - 36 percent she is not honest and trustworthy," which is noteworthy in that she is even less trusted than Trump, who is deeply mistrusted. Clinton's trustworthiness problem extends across the whole electorate, and she is trusted by only 35% of independents, 30% of men, 41% of women, 37% of those with college degrees, and 35% of those without college degrees. Most importantly, trustworthiness is a critical general election issue: ![]() Is Clinton working to improve her electability by buttressing against her main weaknesses in the general election? I'm not seeing any campaign efforts to bolster Clinton's trustworthiness, and I would feel more comfortable with the idea of either Sanders or Clinton winning the nomination if I saw more effort from the Clinton campaign to bolster her trustworthiness. |
Posted by Attorney in Texas | Tue Dec 1, 2015, 12:04 PM (17 replies)
Bernie Sanders: 'We need major reforms in a very broken criminal justice system'
Source: Chicago Sun Times Extract The 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful touched on everything from unemployment to foreign policy and criminal justice. And in true fashion, he didn’t shy away from calls for drug policy reform. “I am running for president because when youth unemployment and underemployment is at 30, 40, 50 percent, 51 percent for African American kids, we need to invest in jobs and education, not more jails and incarceration,” Sanders said to loud applause. He criticized U.S. prison policy for incarcerating more people than any country in the world and called for “major reforms in a very broken criminal justice system.”... We need to stop the killing of unarmed African Americans by the police.... We need to treat substance abuse as a serious health issue , not a criminal issue. Read more: http://extract.suntimes.com/news/10/153/9133/bernie-sanders-criminal-justice-reform-marijuana-laws-new-hampshire/ Reporting about Clinton campaign events is encouraged in Latest Breaking News. That does not imply the same standard applies to the reporting of Sanders campaign events. |
Posted by Attorney in Texas | Tue Dec 1, 2015, 11:00 AM (1 replies)
The New Yorker: "Standing Up for Bernie Sanders"
link; excerpt:
On a recent fall evening, a crowd of about two hundred filed into the Bell House, a nineteen-twenties former warehouse with a rough brick exterior, in Gowanus, Brooklyn, to raise money for Bernie Sanders’s Presidential campaign, and to laugh. ... Near the ticket window, just outside the main event hall, a flyer decorated the wall. “Stand Up for Bernie Sanders: Bern’in Down the House,” it read, in an autumnal, chestnut-and-pumpkin color palette. A ghoulish drawing of Sanders sat beneath a burning building (maybe the White House?). Two women representing the Bushwick Berners, a grassroots organization mobilizing for Sanders in North Brooklyn, stood adjacent to the ticket counter, hunched over a fold-out table crowded with signage, stickers, a donation jar, pens, voter-registration forms, and pamphlets. ... Lauren Irwin, a Bushwick Berner dressed in a long black coat with fur-like fuzz on the shoulders, solicited new volunteers and registered voters. “It’s all very D.I.Y.,” Irwin said, enthusiastic and proud, pointing to the chaotic arrangement of papers on the table.... “This is something that I’m very passionate about—the physicality of a pamphlet or a zine, where you can pass them around,” Irwin said, beaming. “The zine is not just about [Sanders]. He represents this larger movement, this larger grouping of people who are not down with establishment politics.”...“Yell out some reasons you’re a fan of Bernie Sanders,” Miles, a comedian from Chicago and a co-host of Sunday Nights at the Knitting Factory, said. He had a thick mustache and wore a dark button-down shirt and dark jeans. “What do you guys think?” |
Posted by Attorney in Texas | Tue Dec 1, 2015, 10:50 AM (16 replies)
NYT: "Bernie Sanders, Your Cool Socialist Grandpa"
link; excerpt:
How is a 74-year-old self-described Democratic socialist from one of the least populous states in the country turning the Democratic primary upside down and proving an adept challenger to one of the most established candidates in modern politics? |
Posted by Attorney in Texas | Tue Dec 1, 2015, 10:41 AM (59 replies)
Hillary Clinton’s often-told story that NASA rejected her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut
Source: Washington Post Fact Checker ... The Pinocchio Test According to NASA and some space historians, the message in the response that Clinton claims to have received is consistent with NASA policy and the agency’s attitudes toward the possibility of female astronauts at the time. It is debatable whether the tone of the letter Clinton describes fits NASA’s response to girls or aspiring female college students in the early 1960s. NASA could not authenticate the one 1962 letter that exists in cyberspace that appears to confirm Clinton’s account, though the agency says it has no reasons to doubt it is a genuine NASA letter. Correspondence to children and college students from 1964 to 1967, the earliest letters available for public review, were written in a friendly and encouraging manner, rather than a flat-out rejection. But given that NASA received about 4,400 letters in 1965 (the typical volume of mail around that time), it is plausible that some official had written an explicitly discouraging letter to a member of the public — perhaps to Clinton. Given what we know now, we don’t have a reason to doubt her story. But we are leaving this fact-check with a Verdict Pending rating throughout the election in case we find more information. We’re asking our readers for help on this one: If you have copies of letters from NASA from the early 1960s, know of someone who does, or if you are/know of “Miss Kelly” — we want to hear from you. Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/11/30/hillary-clintons-often-told-story-that-nasa-rejected-her-childhood-dream-of-becoming-a-female-astronaut/ This is a pretty through and well researched report. The Washington Post (a generally credible and respected paper) is "asking our readers for help on this one." Let's help corroborate Clinton's account before the National Review, FauxNoise, and hate radio cut credible journalism out of the picture. Even if this account cannot be corroborated (which I personally doubt), let's learn that fact before the first caucus and primary votes are cast. |
Posted by Attorney in Texas | Mon Nov 30, 2015, 12:05 PM (27 replies)
HuffPost: "In Late 2007, Obama Trailed Clinton By 26 Points. Bernie Sanders Is 2016's Barack Obama"
link to H. A. Goodman's excellent editorial; excerpt:
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Posted by Attorney in Texas | Mon Nov 30, 2015, 11:54 AM (41 replies)
Sanders: 'People are crying out for change'
Source: The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) late Sunday sought to draw a distinction between himself and Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton while speaking in New Hampshire. “From coast to coast, the American people are crying out for change, for real change,” Sanders said at the annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, according to reports. “They are tired of the same old, same old establishment politics, establishment economics and establishment foreign policy. They want this county to move in a new direction," Sanders added. Sanders also suggested in his prepared remarks that with the continued support of Democrats, he is poised to pull off one of the greatest political upsets in U.S. history. Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/261458-sanders-people-are-crying-out-for-change |
Posted by Attorney in Texas | Mon Nov 30, 2015, 11:30 AM (5 replies)