Alabama: Team Clinton or Team Sanders?

[yallerdawg]

The SEC Democratic Primary March 1st! An indication of where Alabama stands:

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/02/alabama_shakes_brittney_howard.html#incart_river_index

Source: al.com by Leada Gore

Team Hillary Clinton

Clinton has received $334,351 from Alabamians, the second highest amount behind only Republican Ben Carson.

Donations
•Mark Kennedy, former Alabama Supreme Court Judge - $2,700
•Joe Ritch, Huntsville attorney, chairman of the board of TVA - $2,700
•Joe Reed, Alabama Democratic Party - $1,500
•Constance Hill – CEO Girls Inc. of Central Alabama - $1,500
•Rep. Louise Alexander, Alabama House member - $1,000
•Daniel Robinson – Executive Director Alabama USDA Farm Service Agency - $1,000
•Jeffrey Bayer, president Bayer Properties , of Mountain Brook - $1,000
Janet Buskey, Montgomery County revenue Commissioner - $700
•Retired Huntsville Circuit Judge Laura Hamilton of Huntsville - $500 plus
•Poarch Band of Creek Indians - $500
•Judge Richard Meadows of Montgomery - $200

Delegates and committee

Clinton has a large campaign committee that includes a number of the state's most prominent Democrats. Many of those on the campaign committee are also pledged to Clinton as delegates. Her campaign committee includes:
•U.S. Rep Terri Swell (Sewell had officially endorsed Clinton.)
•State Sen. Linda Coleman
•State Sen. Vivian Davis Figures
•State Sen. Priscila Dunn
•House Democratic Caucus Chair Darrio Melton
•Birmingham Mayor William Bell
•Former Alabama Gov. Jim Folsom
•Former First Lady Marsha Folsom
•Former Congressman Earl Hilliard

Her delegates and committee members include:

•State Rep. James Buskey
•State Sen. Quinton Ross
•Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford
•Former State Sen. Roger Bedford
•Former Jefferson County Commissioner Sheila Smoot

Supporters help open Hillary Clinton's Birmingham campaign office

Team Bernie Sanders

Sanders, the Independent Senator from Vermont, has received $53,485 from Alabamians. His campaign has capitalized on small donors and a look at his contributors includes professors from universities across Alabama, including Samford University, Auburn University, UAB, University of Alabama and UAH.

Donations include:
•Brittany Howard of Athens, member of Alabama Shakes - $450

A political cartoon by J. D. Crowe - "A Special Place in Hell" (Please! Hillary has been depicted as Satan for the last 25 years! Just a freakin' Alabama cartoon - and a taste of things to come.)

[mikehiggins]

1. Just a small point

(Please! Hillary has been depicted as Satan for the last 25 years! Just a freakin' Alabama cartoon - and a taste of things to come.)

True dat, but more than true. HRC has been "satanized" for over a quarter century, and not just in Alabama (part of her "firewall&quot . There may be people in the South who despise and dismiss Sanders (he is a Jew after all, AND a godless atheist in the service of Israel) but my experiences with people from Dixie is that an insane number of them HATE HRC. That is entirely different.

That may not affect the outcome of the primaries but the "electibility" argument applies to the general election and that is where the problem lies, IMHO.

[Third Doctor]

2. That is true. They also hate Nancy Pelosi.

[yallerdawg]

3. A few years ago, Bobby Bright was the Democratic incumbent...

challenged by now Rep. Martha Roby (we saw her at Hillary's 11 hour Benghazi hearing).

Bobby Bright had an impeccable voting record - was the worst Democrat in the House, and voted more consistently with the Republican Party vote than a number of Republicans!

Martha Roby could argue virtually nothing - except for this one vote Bright made in support of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House (which got him on committees where he could oppose everything Obama supported)!

The Blue Dog incumbent was defeated - yes, Nancy Pelosi is hated!

[LannyDeVaney]

4. Well, Alabama turned out to be one of her biggest landslide victories ...

rivaling Sanders numbers in his home state.

For the first time in my life, there were more people in the Democratic line than the Republican line when I voted. Felt good.

[yallerdawg]

5. We got to keep those New England liberal elites in check!

What are Hillary's chances in Alabama in November?

Well - half the state is women!

Run the right (in this case "left&quot candidate and bad things happen.