May 16, 2016

Bernie Sanders Is The Only Senate Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027836181

May 16, 2016

What Senators Are Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus? There Is Just One!

CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS

CAUCUS MEMBERS

Senate Member

Bernie Sanders

House Members

Alma Adams

Karen Bass

Xavier Becerra

Don Beyer

Suzanne Bonamici

Corrine Brown

Michael Capuano

Andre Carson

Judy Chu

Katherine Clark

Yvette Clarke

Steve Cohen

Bonnie Watson Coleman

John Conyers

Elijah Cummings

Danny Davis

Peter DeFazio

Rosa DeLauro

Debbie Dingell

Donna Edwards

Sam Farr

Chaka Fattah

Lois Frankel

Marcia Fudge

Alan Grayson

Luis Gutierrez

Janice Hahn

Jared Huffman

Hakeem Jeffries

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Hank Johnson

Joe Kennedy III

Brenda Lawrence

John Lewis

Ted Lieu

David Loebsack

Alan Lowenthal

Carolyn Maloney

Jim McDermott

James McGovern

Gwen Moore

Jerrold Nadler

Grace Napolitano

Rick Nolan

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Frank Pallone

Chellie Pingree

Jared Polis

Charles Rangel

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Jose Serrano

Louise Slaughter

Mark Takai

Bennie Thompson

Nydia Velazquez

Maxine Waters

Peter Welch

Frederica Wilson

John Yarmuth

https://cpc-grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=71§iontree=2,71

May 16, 2016

"Choose between two representatives of the corporate oligarchy — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump."

{Unless Bernie Sanders wins the nomination. imagine20125}




May 12, 2016
Clinton and Trump, Two Candidates Enveloped by the Shadow of Goldman Sachs
by Jake Johnson

In November, the American people will likely be faced with a choice between two representatives of the corporate oligarchy — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

One is a politician who has benefited greatly from the opportunistic generosity of Wall Street, oil lobbyists, and the insurance industry; the other is a billionaire who has often boasted about his fruitful history on the other side of the equation, where he has spent his time and vast wealth buying influence and access in Washington.

However, both, in their stump speeches and formal campaign promises, have vowed to reign in America's largest financial institutions.

These claims have — rightly — been met with immense skepticism.

Read the full article at:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/12/clinton-and-trump-two-candidates-enveloped-shadow-goldman-sachs

May 16, 2016

Even supporters agree: Clinton has weaknesses as a candidate. What can she do?

WASHINGTON POST
Even supporters agree: Clinton has weaknesses as a candidate. What can she do?
By Anne Gearan and Dan Balz
May 15

Hillary Clinton’s declining personal image, ongoing battle to break free of the challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders and struggle to adapt to an anti-establishment mood among voters this year have become caution signs for her campaign and the focus of new efforts to fortify her position as she prepares for a bruising general election.

More than a dozen Clinton ­allies identified weaknesses in her candidacy that may erode her prospects of defeating Donald Trump, including poor showings with young women, untrustworthiness, unlikability and a lackluster style on the stump. Supporters also worry that she is a conventional candidate in an unconventional election in which voters clearly favor renegades.

“I bring it down to one thing and one thing only, and that is likability,” said Peter Hart, a Democratic pollster who has conducted a series of focus groups for the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Hart said being seen as likable is “about the lowest bar” for a candidate, and yet Clinton has lower likability numbers today than she did when the campaign began.

Among other potential problems identified by supporters: Clinton’s unpopularity with white men, questions about whether her family philanthropic foundation helped donors and friends, and lingering clouds from her tenure at the State Department, including her private email system, the Benghazi attacks in which four Americans were killed and her support for military intervention in Libya.

Read the full article at:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/even-supporters-agree-clinton-has-weaknesses-as-a-candidate-what-can-she-do/2016/05/15/132f4d7e-1874-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_clinton-weakness-908pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

May 16, 2016

Centrist Democrats: We can work with President Trump !!!

POLITICO

Centrist Democrats: We can work with President Trump
Getting ready for Trump wins in their home states may just be good politics for moderate senators.
By Burgess Everett and Seung Min Kim
05/16/16

As Democrats portray Donald Trump as a dangerous leader for his party, most of them barely acknowledge he could be president. But some centrist Democrats say they’re ready and willing to work with the business mogul should he defeat their party’s nominee.

“The people will have a chance to vote. If Donald Trump is elected president there will be a great opportunity to sit down and have a conversation about what that agenda looks like,” explained Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), who has long backed Hillary Clinton. “If he’s president, we’re going to have disagreement. But we’d better all figure out how to come up with an agenda for the American people.”

Take Tester, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, whose job description calls for retaking the Senate by relentlessly linking incumbent Republicans to Trump in purple and blue states this year. But should Trump shock the pundits and win, Tester acknowledges that there are “for sure” things he can come together with Trump on, “as long as they’re good deals for America.”



"If Donald Trump is elected president there will be a great opportunity to sit down and have a conversation about what that agenda looks like,” says Sen. Heidi Heitkamp

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-moderate-democrats-223168#ixzz48pJdMYq7
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May 16, 2016

Election Polls: Sanders has more potential to beat Trump than Clinton

Polls: Sanders has more potential to beat Trump
Recent data show Sanders has double-digit lead in support over Republican candidate while Clinton would face tight race.
By Ryan Rifai
5/15/2016


Recent polls have demonstrated that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders holds a much higher potential to defeat Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, in an election than Hillary Clinton, although the latter is the Democratic party's front-runner.

The Reuters news agency, RealClearPolitics, a US non-partisan polling data aggregator, are among the organisations that have released ratings indicating that Sanders would have the upperhand in the battle for the White House.

Clinton has so far won 1,716 delegates and Sanders has gained 1,433. Factoring in super-delegates, Clinton has 2,240 and Sanders has 1,473. But super-delegates can still switch allegiance until the July 25 Democratic convention is held.

However, RealClearPolitics showed on Tuesday that Sanders had a 13 percent advantage over Trump, while Clinton had five more points than Trump.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday signalled a tight coin-toss race between Clinton and Trump, without reporting on Sanders.

In March, a Reuters poll said that Sanders would beat Trump by at least 14 percent, while reporting on the potential of a very close race between Trump and Clinton.

Dustin Woodard, an analytics expert who took a major part in the discovery of the Reuters poll trend, told Al Jazeera that a significant reason for Sanders' advantage was due to disproportional support from independent voters - a group that he says other polls failed to factor in.

"Independents are the largest voting population in the US. Gallup reports that independents are 42 percent of the voting population, while Democrats are only 29 percent and Republicans are only 26 percent".

Read the full article at:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/05/polls-sanders-potential-beat-trump-160514170035436.html

May 16, 2016

GWU Battleground Poll shows Trump leading Clinton 42%-37% Among Independent Voters

GWU Battleground Poll shows Trump leading Clinton 42%-37% Among Independent Voters
May 5, 2016

Independent voters will decide the November general election. A recent GSPM GWU Battleground Poll shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton by a 42%-37% margin among these voters.

It will be difficult to make these candidates more unpopular than they currently are -- Donald Trump has 52% "Strongly Unfavorable" ratings and Hillary Clinton is at 46%.

Considering these already high unfavorable ratings, each candidate is likely immune to negative ads. However, negative ads about the other may help each candidate turn out his or her base voter in November.

The national survey of 1,000 likely voters was taken April 17-20. Among all voters Clinton leads Trump by 46%-43%.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gwu-battleground-poll-shows-trump-leading-clinton-nordlinger-ma-jd?articleId=6134011700707409920#comments-6134011700707409920&trk=prof-post

May 16, 2016

Is it time to begin planning a massive rally for democracy at the Philadelpha convention?

A rally to mobilize hundreds of thousands or more of young people, working class people, union members, oppressed minorities, progressive women and all those who want a candidate not controlled by big business and Wall Street to defeat Trump in November.

Hundreds of Thousands of Sander's Backers May Demonstrate At The Democratic Party Convention In July.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511683036

May 16, 2016

Chomsky: The Majority of Today's Elected Democrats Are Moderate Republicans

Election 2016
Chomsky: The Majority of Today's Elected Democrats Are Moderate Republicans
According to Chomsky, America is a two-party state, "but there's only one faction."
By Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet
May 13, 2016

The majority of Democrats have shifted to the right so far that the two-party system is almost unrecognizable, according to Noam Chomsky.

"There used to be a quip that the United States was a one-party state with a business party that had two factions: the Democrats and Republicans—and that used to be pretty accurate, but it’s not anymore. The U.S. is still a two-party state, but there’s only one faction, and it’s not Democrats, it’s moderate Republicans. Today’s Democrats have shifted to the right," Chomsky told RT America's Anissa Naouai.

And apparently, so have the Republicans.

According to Chomsky, "[Political scientist] Norman Ornstein simply describes the Republican Party today as a 'radical insurgency that doesn’t care about fact, doesn’t care about argument, doesn’t want to participate in politics, and is simply off the spectrum.'"



http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/chomsky-todays-democrats-are-moderate-republicans

May 16, 2016

Will super delegates decide to nominate Hillary and hand the general election to Trump?

I hope not.