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March 24, 2016

Bernie Beats Hillary For First Time In New National Poll Released March 24!



Thursday, March 24

2016 Democratic Presidential Nomination Bloomberg Clinton 48, Sanders 49 Sanders +1


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
March 24, 2016

Bernie Beats ALL Republican Candidates for President In New Poll Released March 24



Thursday, March 24

General Election: Trump vs. Sanders Bloomberg Sanders 58, Trump 34 Sanders +24
General Election: Cruz vs. Sanders Bloomberg Sanders 52, Cruz 40 Sanders +12
General Election: Kasich vs. Sanders Bloomberg Sanders 46, Kasich 42 Sanders +4


Bernie now leads Hillary in ALL polls against Republicans running for President

Wednesday, March 23


General Election: Trump vs. Clinton Quinnipiac Clinton 46, Trump 40 Clinton +6
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders Quinnipiac Sanders 52, Trump 38 Sanders +14

General Election: Cruz vs. Clinton Quinnipiac Clinton 45, Cruz 42 Clinton +3
General Election: Cruz vs. Sanders Quinnipiac Sanders 50, Cruz 39 Sanders +11

General Election: Kasich vs. Clinton Quinnipiac Kasich 47, Clinton 39 Kasich +8
General Election: Kasich vs. Sanders Quinnipiac Sanders 44, Kasich 45 Kasich +1


Monday, March 21

General Election: Trump vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Clinton 53, Trump 41 Clinton +12
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 58, Trump 38 Sanders +20

General Election: Cruz vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Clinton 48, Cruz 48 Tie
General Election: Cruz vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 55, Cruz 42 Sanders +13

General Election: Kasich vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Kasich 51, Clinton 45 Kasich +6
General Election: Kasich vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 51, Kasich 45 Sanders +6

General Election: Trump vs. Clinton CBS News/NY Times Clinton 50, Trump 40 Clinton +10
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders CBS News/NY Times Sanders 53, Trump 38 Sanders +15

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
March 24, 2016

Keith Olbermann’s Guide to Surviving the Media Coverage of Donald Trump

Keith Olbermann’s Guide to Surviving the Media Coverage of Donald Trump
The longtime cable news anchor begs for some perspective.
By Keith Olbermann
March 21, 2016

STOP ASKING “WHY ARE THEY COVERING TRUMP ALL THE EFFING TIME?”

They’re doing it for the money.

Duhhhh.

Save yourself the aggravation of looking for journalistic malfeasance, political motives, secret cabals or sinister corporations acting stealthily behind the curtain.

No stealth. No curtain. No apologies.

“Man, who would have expected the ride we’re all having right now?” asked a giddy CBS Chairman Les Moonves late last month. “The money’s rolling in and this is fun.”

Moonves—to my experience the most honest executive in media (not that it’s a suffocatingly full elevator)—summed it up: “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS. … This is going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going.”

What else do you expect from commercial-based broadcasting? Or commercial-based digital and print journalism?


Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/keith-olbermanns-guide-to-surviving-media-coverage-of-donald-trump-213751#ixzz43mdxKpUlFollow
March 23, 2016

Would a President Hillary Clinton organize a new "Department of Wall Street and Big Business"?

It would be a new cabinet level position and Debbie Wasserman Schultz could head it up.

Or Rahm Emanuel.

March 23, 2016

NEW POLLS RELEASED MARCH 23 Bernie leads Hillary against ALL Republicans for President



Bernie now leads Hillary in ALL polls against Republicans running for President

Wednesday, March 23


General Election: Trump vs. Clinton Quinnipiac Clinton 46, Trump 40 Clinton +6
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders Quinnipiac Sanders 52, Trump 38 Sanders +14

General Election: Cruz vs. Clinton Quinnipiac Clinton 45, Cruz 42 Clinton +3
General Election: Cruz vs. Sanders Quinnipiac Sanders 50, Cruz 39 Sanders +11

General Election: Kasich vs. Clinton Quinnipiac Kasich 47, Clinton 39 Kasich +8
General Election: Kasich vs. Sanders Quinnipiac Sanders 44, Kasich 45 Kasich +1



Monday, March 21

General Election: Trump vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Clinton 53, Trump 41 Clinton +12
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 58, Trump 38 Sanders +20

General Election: Cruz vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Clinton 48, Cruz 48 Tie
General Election: Cruz vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 55, Cruz 42 Sanders +13

General Election: Kasich vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Kasich 51, Clinton 45 Kasich +6
General Election: Kasich vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 51, Kasich 45 Sanders +6

General Election: Trump vs. Clinton CBS News/NY Times Clinton 50, Trump 40 Clinton +10
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders CBS News/NY Times Sanders 53, Trump 38 Sanders +15

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
March 23, 2016

Bill Moyers: Hillary should publicly ask corporate elitists Emanuel and Debbie W. Schultz to resign

Time for These Two Democrats to Go
By:
Bill Moyers
Managing Editor, Moyers & Company 
Michael Winship
Senior writer, BillMoyers.com. Former senior writing fellow, Demos. President, Writers Guild of America, East
March 23, 2015


.... if Secretary Clinton really wants us to believe she’s no creature of the corporate and Wall Street money machine — despite more than $44 million in contributions from the financial industry since 2000 and her $675,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, not to mention several million more paid by other business interests for an hour or two of her time — she should pick up the gauntlet herself and publicly call for the departure of these two, although they are among her nearest and dearest. And we don’t mean Bill and Chelsea.

No, she should come right out and ask for the resignations of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Democratic National Committee Chair — and Florida congresswoman — Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In one masterstroke, she could separate herself from two of the most prominent of all corporate Democratic elitists.

Each is a Clinton disciple and devotee, each has profited mightily from the association and each represents all that is wrong with a Democratic Party that in the pursuit of money from rich donors and powerful corporations has abandoned those it once so proudly represented — working men and women.

Rahm Emanuel first came to prominence as head of the finance committee for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, browbeating ever-increasing amounts of money out of fat cat donors, and following Clinton into the White House as a senior adviser attuned to the wishes and profits of organized wealth. Few pushed harder for NAFTA, a treaty that would cost a million or more working people their livelihood, or for the “three-strikes-and-you’re-out” crime bill which Clinton later admitted was a mistake. After alienating most of Washington with his arrogance and bluster Emanuel left in 1998 and went into investment banking in Chicago, making more than $16 million in less than three years.

As for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, she embodies the tactics that have eroded the ability of Democrats to once again be the party of the working class. As Democratic National Committee chair she has opened the floodgates for Big Money, brought lobbyists into the inner circle and oiled all the moving parts of the revolving door that twirls between government service and cushy jobs in the world of corporate influence

So imagine now the Democratic National Convention this July. Presiding over it will be, yes, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, tribune for a party of incumbency, money and crony capitalism. Follow her as she makes the rounds of private parties where zillionaire donors, lobbyists and consultants transact the real business of politics. Watch as she and Hizzoner Rahm Emanuel of Chicago greet and embrace. Then imagine those thousands of young people outside the convention hall who have arrived from long months of campaigning earnestly for reform of the party they see as an instrument of their future, as well as members of Black Lives Matter and other people of color for whom Rahm Emanuel is the incarnation of deceit and oppression.

Read the full article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-moyers/rahm-emanuel-debbie-wasserman-schultz_b_9527768.html?

This pretty much nails it. Not much more really needs to be said about what this campaign represents.
It tells the truth. And the only candidate for President who has been telling the truth is Bernie Sanders.

Case closed.
March 22, 2016

'"Known as the "Senator from Wall Street" ' Hillary made 11 million in 14 months from Wall Street


Hillary Clinton’s Mixed Bag
By •Abby Scher


.... given her longstanding and continually renewed ties to corporate America, Clinton has a credibility gap that she needs to overcome, to win over progressives and turn out young people and the discouraged and disaffected who made the difference for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

She is struggling to show she would take on the economic threat posed by big finance. She was known as the “Senator from Wall Street” when she represented New York State. Out of office, she, along with her husband, earned millions in speaker fees from banks and Wall Street companies. She charged as much as $350,000 per talk and reportedly made $11 million from January 2014 to March 2015 alone, according to Federal Election Commission disclosure forms.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, the key legislative scourge of Wall Street, still had not endorsed Hillary as she moved into critical primary races, long after all the other Democratic women senators stepped up to give Hillary their support. That sends a concerning message. Clinton laid out a strategy to take on Wall Street in a recent op-ed in The New York Times, calling for adding teeth to the Dodd-Frank banking reform law, sending Wall Street lawbreakers to jail, and curbing banks with fees on short-term trading so they are not “too big to fail.”

But she stopped short of backing Warren and John McCain’s bill to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act to once again split retail banking from investment banking. Instead, she controversially focused on the role of “shadow banks,” like big insurance in that op-ed. Yet there is new risk in the consolidation that has swept banking since the crisis: The nation’s five biggest banks now control 45 percent of bank assets, up from 25 percent in 2000.

Clinton has received significant backing from lobbyists tied to Big Oil, raising concerns among environmentalists. She came late to her position opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. The same goes for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which green groups say will basically overturn environmental protections, treating them as an illegal restraint to free trade. And she oddly champions her leadership role while Secretary of State during the Copenhagen climate change meetings that are generally regarded as a complete failure.

- See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2016/02/188575/hillary-clinton%E2%80%99s-mixed-bag#sthash.233Z8qm6.dpuf
March 22, 2016

Bernie now leads Hillary in ALL polls against Republicans running for President


Monday, March 21

General Election: Trump vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Clinton 53, Trump 41 Clinton +12
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 58, Trump 38 Sanders +20

General Election: Cruz vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Clinton 48, Cruz 48 Tie
General Election: Cruz vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 55, Cruz 42 Sanders +13

General Election: Kasich vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Kasich 51, Clinton 45 Kasich +6
General Election: Kasich vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 51, Kasich 45 Sanders +6

General Election: Trump vs. Clinton CBS News/NY Times Clinton 50, Trump 40 Clinton +10
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders CBS News/NY Times Sanders 53, Trump 38 Sanders +15

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
March 22, 2016

Poll: Trump, Clinton score historic unfavorable ratings

Source: CNN


By David Wright, CNN
Updated 7:40 AM ET, Tue March 22, 2016

Washington (CNN) — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton register net negative ratings in double digits, indicating the front-runners for each party's presidential nominations are viewed negatively at historic levels, according to a new CBS/New York Times poll.

That makes Trump and Clinton viewed more unfavorably than any front-runner for either party since 1984, when CBS began polling voters on the question.

On the Republican side, Trump scores a net negative of -33, with a favorable rating of 24% compared to 57% of voters who view him unfavorably. On the Democratic side, Clinton fares only slightly better with a net negative of -21, registering a 31% favorable rating and a 52% unfavorable rating, according to the poll.

Both candidates' negatives far outweigh front-runners of the past. In 2012, President Barack Obama was viewed favorably and unfavorably by an equal share of voters, while Republican nominee Mitt Romney scored a net negative of -7. In 2008, both Obama and Sen. John McCain had net positive ratings of 16 and 7 points, respectively.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/politics/2016-election-poll-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/index.html

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/politics/2016-election-poll-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/index.html

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