Anti-Hillary Clinton Hashtag Breaks the Internet 2 Days Before South Carolina Primary

[nadinbrzezinski]

We saw with Marco Rubio's egregious debate performance that even a single televised blunder can extinguish whatever momentum a presidential candidate has. It's quite possible that the viral video of Clinton dodging questions from BLM activists could hurt her later down the road, especially in regards to the black vote.

Ashley Williams demonstrated the power, not only of Black Lives Matter, but also individual acts of courage. With social media, a single voice can trigger an avalanche.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-hanley/anti-hillary-clinton-hash_b_9322034.html

fascinating, I said it yesterday that this could be bad for the campaign. I ran a story today on the social media aspect of this, and in the headline I posited that it might hurt the campaign. I guess this is what political observers do.

[CorporatistNation]

1. Did You Send It To Rachel?

She'll be sure to discuss it... NOT!

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. She was called on it hundreds of time on the twitter

Seriously. This will cost Rachel as well. Hayes covered it to his credit.

People are really having a big moment of WTF over. Manufactured consent is not just a title of a book

[grasswire]

70. Halperin and Heileman didn't mention it either.

The first 48 minutes of their show was about Trump et al.

[nadinbrzezinski]

73. True

CNN did a lot more on this today, I think.

Right now watching West go at it with a surrogate on mass incarceration

this is becoming a study of media as well

[delrem]

76. I hear tell that these protests are so yesterday. You know?

Now that we've got our candidate.

[artislife]

100. Well...we have no more items to protest

Doncha know?!

Everything is great!

[grasswire]

90. yes, very true

Trump is the proof of media malfeasance.

[jillan]

12. Of course she didn't discuss it. Her and Kasie were too busy discussing how it's all Bernie's fault

that voter turnout is down.

[brooklynite]

3. Did the internet break? I didn't notice.

[Wilms]

5. I think it's an expression the kid's use, BK.

I'm sure you, like I, first thought, "WTF?", at the notion of a "viral" video.

[3auld6phart]

97. Bernie and Ms.Warren

It's the signatures in your post that caught my eye.They would make a great team. Long over due for a female POTUS. But not the lady weathervane who is running and wants it so bad.

[artislife]

101. I think you are very kind to that poster.

You are a nice person.

[Babel_17]

120. It's akin to when a site gets "slashdotted"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

Slashdot effect
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Flash crowd" redirects here. For the short story by Larry Niven, see Flash Crowd. For the social gathering in the real world, see flash mob.

The Slashdot effect, also known as slashdotting, occurs when a popular website links to a smaller site, causing a massive increase in traffic. This overloads the smaller site, causing it to slow down or even temporarily become unavailable. The name stems from the huge influx of web traffic that would result from the technology news site Slashdot linking to websites. However the name is somewhat dated as flash crowds from Slashdot were reported to be diminishing as of 2005 due to competition from similar sites.[1] The effect has been associated with other websites or metablogs such as Fark, Digg, Drudge Report, Imgur, Reddit, and Twitter, leading to terms such as being Farked or Drudged, being under the Reddit effect, or receiving a "hug of death" from the site in question.[2][3] Google Doodles, which link to search results on the doodle topic, also result in high increases of traffic from the search results page.[4] Typically, less robust sites are unable to cope with the huge increase in traffic and become unavailable – common causes are lack of sufficient data bandwidth, servers that fail to cope with the high number of requests, and traffic quotas. Sites that are maintained on shared hosting services often fail when confronted with the Slashdot effect.

A flash crowd is a more generic term without using any specific name that describes a network phenomenon where a network or host suddenly receives a lot of traffic. This is sometimes due to the appearance of a website on a blog or news column.

I've seen it happen, experienced not being able to connect to a site/download a game demo when my fellow nerds were all clicking the same link.

I guess that now that's also referred to as "breaking the internet".

Such a vulnerable "series of tubes" ...

Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got… an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

[…] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

[questionseverything]

6. here is whr hc learned the term super predator

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511339737

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Well for about an hour you could not download the video

due to the number of downloads and server demands

I watched that hashtag go from a couple a minute to I cannot keep up, That is what the kids call "breaking the internet." It is a slang, so I hope that helps you understand what it means.

In a term you might understand... this has the potential of becoming a big fucking deal, to quote the VEEP of the United States.

[seaglass]

14. It's a Kardashian thing. In any case #blackish trended longer, so no, it didn't break the

internet.

[libdem4life]

109. Kardashian thing? I understand the need of some to denigrate, but Kardashian? That's low.n/t

[seaglass]

115. know your meme

Break the Internet or to break the Internet is a catchphrase used to indicate when a narrative, story, or image goes extremely viral, spreading through many different regions of the Internet at once. The term went into wide use with this meaning after being featured as the headline for Kim Kardashian’s Paper Magazine cover.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/break-the-internet

[libdem4life]

116. Again, and I do know the "meme", it's apples and oranges. But thanks for the

tutorial in any case.

[Babel_17]

124. Thanks, that makes sense. I was a bit off in my guess as to its meaning

I thought it was about making websites hard to connect to, due to more traffic than they can handle*. While that might be a side effect, it's not what's being referred to, it seems.

*The Slashdot effect

[sabrina 1]

28. It was amazing, the hashtag was trending at the top of the list all day and only gained momentum as

the day wore on. I wonder when the Establishment Dems will 'get' how little power the Corporate Media has anymore. Which is fine, Bernie was supposed to be GONE by now airc, for months! According to the establishment, Corporate 'experts'.

No way would he even make it to Iowa, which he won btw, or NH where he wiped the floor with EVERYONE with ALL demographics.

Hillary, we were told, 'has the women's vote' We women were yelling 'WRONG' but the Establishment old school experts 'knew better'. Bernie has the young women's vote by huge margins because they finally found someone who speaks for them and who LISTENS.

[nadinbrzezinski]

58. Funny I just ran a story on that

http://reportingsandiego.com/2016/02/25/whichhillary-censored/

From a manufacturing of consent this is troubling.

[delrem]

77. Keep following that.

[nadinbrzezinski]

78. I fear another long night,

coffee is freshly brewed

[nadinbrzezinski]

89. Ok let me reach for the tinfoil hat

[artislife]

102. Gee, there can't be ANY connection, right? nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

108. This afternoon I will be working on a

More extensive meta story

[artislife]

110. Hey check out my new OP on Bernie in Hibbing MN

He met with Native Americans (mostly from my people!) and steel workers!

[nadinbrzezinski]

111. Good I will

This is on social media manipulation

[Dragonfli]

4. As I recall, early on you had noted it was growing "stumps" well, those stumps appear to be

Forming into fully functional legs.

Good early call on the social media aspect of it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Yup, last night I said this is growing stumps

the legs are now fully formed and this is starting to run.

[vdogg]

9. That's a mighty powerful hashtag

I now expect Hillary to lose SC in a landslide...

[72DejaVu]

11. One hashtag, one vote

Isn't that how it works?

[freddyt]

13. She's plenty of time...

...to lose states of greater import. But keep telling yourself that it won't matter if it makes you feel better.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. the article does not say that

but you keep telling yourself this does not matter

[72DejaVu]

10. Nope, internet is still working

I've been able to read all about Hillary's huge poll leads all day.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Explanation since you obviously need it

nadinbrzezinski (145,059 posts)
7. Well for about an hour you could not download the video

due to the number of downloads and server demands

I watched that hashtag go from a couple a minute to I cannot keep up, That is what the kids call "breaking the internet." It is a slang, so I hope that helps you understand what it means.

In a term you might understand... this has the potential of becoming a big fucking deal, to quote the VEEP of the United States.

[72DejaVu]

20. Thanks for the condescending explanation!

You may be right, this could be as big a controversy as the one that was going to derail the Clinton campaign the day before yesterday, or that one on Monday, or even the three last week!

[Fearless]

22. The poster was correct in their statement.

No need to be snarky.

[72DejaVu]

24. Did Bernie supporters ever have sense of humors?

Or did they just disappear when the realities of the campaign set in?

[Fearless]

29. What reality?? 51-51 delegate count and winning the popular vote?

[72DejaVu]

32. Instant nostalgia!

Reliving past glories already? Voters in upcoming states are voters, too, aren't they?

[Fearless]

63. Umm... this is the present statistics actually.

You Hillary supporters do have a habit of counting your eggs before their hatched however. I can understand that. It comes straight from the top. The coronation candidate.

[JackRiddler]

31. Lou Reed would be for Bernie.

Or for nobody, certainly not Clinton. Just saying. He was very pro-OWS.

[72DejaVu]

34. Considering the number of dead people that have posthumously endorsed Bernie

I'm sure he will win big in the Forestlawn primary.

[JackRiddler]

36. Nah, Clinton has the dead people primary locked up.

All Tammany style.

[72DejaVu]

37. Tammany won a boatload of elections

Just sayin'

[JackRiddler]

39. But it fell.

[72DejaVu]

41. Well, yeah, that's true

After about a century.

[JackRiddler]

45. Actually, no, it was about 24 years.

At least, since we both seem to be referring to the reign of Tweed. (There's still a Tammany today, actually.) That was from 1858 until 1871, or a period roughly corresponding to, say, 1992 until 2016.

Thanks for making my day!

EDIT: D'oh!!!

1,871 minus 1,858 equals 13 or 14. My mistake. I wanted it to be so, you got me. The Clintons and their Third Way are indeed doing much better than Tweed.

[72DejaVu]

51. You may have been referring only to the Tweed era

I was not. Tammany was a potent political force into the 1950s.

(BTW:If you are interested, Selwyn Raab's Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires includes a very good telling of the fall of Tammany in the DeSapio/Costello era.)

[JackRiddler]

52. Thanks, I am interested.

See, something useful is coming of this after all. Also, I've discovered that my math needs correcting... but I am capable of correcting it, which is a good sign. (See edited post above.)

[72DejaVu]

54. It'a a good read, informative and entertaining

And if you're a fan of The Godfather and/or The Sopranos it's great fun recognizing here many of their characters and plot points came from

[JackRiddler]

50. "I wanna Occupy Wall Street. I support it. In each and every way."

[72DejaVu]

53. Do you think there is a 100% correlation

between supporting OWS and supporting Bernie?

I imagine the overlap is pretty high, but of course, it's certainly not complete.

[JackRiddler]

56. Certainly not 100%!

I would estimate between 70-90% of OWS would be for Bernie, and maybe 0.00001% for Clinton. Rhetorically, Sanders is the 2016 version of OWS, for whatever it's worth. And for all the imperfections of OWS from my own point of view, somewhat to the left of it. He's all Break Up the Big Banks and Tobin Tax and prosecute the miscreants and whatnot.

[nadinbrzezinski]

40. Ah yes, the bernie supporters meme

I happen to not be one. Who I vote for is my business, as both an independent and independent media. The funny thing is you will need my vote (and the rest of the 43 percent) we are the true king makers. So who your nominates is your business.

I also happen to live in an open primary state. Ah how to be strategic.

So do proceed governor. When your antics transfer to the meat department, I know we have entered the twilight zone of american primaries, and you guys are going to be the people I will blame when you lose in November. Not the professional left. YOU.

The alienating tactics are going to cost you both in fundraising and votes, assuming your favored candidate becomes the nominee. Oh and one last thing. ENJOY PRESIDENT TRUMP. He will be the nominee for the other side, and quite frankly FASCISTS do scare me. So believe it or not, with all her faults, I would prefer the democrat, in November, even YOUR candidate.

[xocet]

82. "...sense of humors? (sic)" Borat, is that you? n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Not condescending

but trying to educate you on slang. This term is not just used for this hashtag. You realize the Superbowll also "broke the internet?" So did a TV program last night.

And I know I am correct. This is just picking speed. You know what Twitter just did? (Not the first time, perhaps the first time in the US... they removed the hashtag. So the kids are doing the same thing as kids in other places, The new hashtag is #whichhillarycensored. Nope a trending topic does not disappear that fast and users are now complaining that people cannot see their tweets on the original hashtag.

Lemme see how well that has worked in the past.

[72DejaVu]

30. You really thought I didn't know what it meant?

Oh, I get it, it's like those memes where Bernie is all hip and cool and Hillary is dumb and clueless.

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. Well I am going from WHAT YOU POSTED

so you knew what it meant, but still pretended. By the way, there are people who do not, honestly know what that means.

Have an excellent day. Me, trying to figure this... the hashtag is still alive, but was removed from all trending maps even though it is faster now than two hours ago. Reminds me of #somos132, That could be a story.

[72DejaVu]

35. Well, you have an excellent day, too

And, really, try to see the humor in things. It will all go easier.

[Jitter65]

17. Like everything else that is said about HRC...not true. She didn't dodge anything, she never had

the chance to respond. Watch the video again. This is really some sick s--T.

[Fearless]

23. Are you actually CONDONING Hillary's response to BLM?!

Are you serious?

[senz]

25. They condone everything she does.

[desmiller]

27. "Hillary Hypnosis" at its best.

[72DejaVu]

55. Actually

We just don't think our candidate is perfect.

[aspirant]

72. That's your humor again, right?

[BillZBubb]

79. That's your funniest post of the night.

I see what you mean about this humor thing.

[nadinbrzezinski]

47. Is this a new talking point?

Just curious, because I have seen them die horrific deaths all day.

[TM99]

64. I know, really, can you believe

that little black girl completely over-powered poor Hillary Clinton.

Why, she must be a superpredator indeed!

[Cassiopeia]

68. She didn't want to respond

That's why she was escorted out of the room.

[Peace Patriot]

75. You are so wrong. She had every chance to turn this into a moment of great leadership.

Instead of having her SS remove the very polite Ashley (who had paid the $500 to be there!), she should have asked the young woman to sit down and have her full say, and should have asked the rich white folk she was milking for funds to listen and respond, and get a conversation going. It would have been brilliant, but she is not capable of great leadership. And I think that's because she is a fractured and defensive personality with too many golden shackles wrapped around her, a lot of them from the very prison profiteers and "war on drugs" profiteers--Clinton policies for which she has been well paid-- that have resulted, not only in massive incarceration of blacks and destruction of black families and communities, but also in cops shooting black men dead in the street for no reason at all.

Ashley talked fast because she knew, though she was a paying guest, she would be evicted for challenging Clinton, even in a very quiet and polite way. If Clinton had done what I said would have been great leadership, Ashley would have had her say, listened to the answer, then Clinton and the others there may have spoken further, and Ashley could respond--you know, a CONVERSATION.

Clinton had her thrown out, and then turned back to her rich white funders in their antebellum house and said, "Now let's get back to the issues." Gawd, what a gaff!

The photo taken just after Ashley was taken out showed Clinton's back continuing her spiel and the most bored looking audience I've ever seen. Almost funny, they were so bored-looking. Poor rich people--on what could've been the liveliest political event of their lives. Ashley brought it to life!

[TheFarS1de]

86. Opportunity knocked ...

and instead of carpe diem she released the hounds .... and promptly moved on .

[Oilwellian]

117. Correction on your Clinton quote

she said: "Uh, OK, back to the issues, the issues that I think are important."

That gives it an entirely new meaning.

[Peace Patriot]

80. I object to you implying that BLM issues are "some sick s--t."

That is how I understand what you said, and others will understand it that way as well. It's kind of like Clinton's use of "super-predators," though in her case, since I now know the origin of that word, I think it was no mistake but rather a deliberate political use of a buzz word, given to her by an academic, that is code for black, in her pursuit of establishing a lucrative "prison-industrial complex" for mass incarceration.

Please explain "This is really some sick s--t." Do you mean Ashley's protest? Do you mean BLM issues? And if not, what do you mean?

As it stands, we have a Clinton supporter seeming to say that protest against the murders of innocent blacks by the cops, and massive imprisonment of blacks, is "some sick s--t."

[artislife]

103. She could have said to the man escorting Ashley out "Wait."

And then she could have given her the attention she was seeking. Then answer.

Instead of talking over and averting and allowing her to be swept away from her hired staff.



I guess hillary is really done with her "listening tours".

[TNProfessor]

18. smh

Maybe she will only win by 25 instead of 30.

[JackRiddler]

38. You think so?

A 5-delegate difference would be pretty big for a start.

[onehandle]

19. Hashtags are voters?

[72DejaVu]

21. Hashtags are more powerful than voters!

Obviously, since Bernie has more hashtags and Hillary has more voters.

[JackRiddler]

42. You seem to be confused.

Clinton appears to have better numbers in polls using a variety of methods to take samplings of potential voters in future (note: "future&quot Democratic primaries and caucuses. ("Future" would mean such primaries and caucuses as have not yet been held, by the way. It seems necessary to define terms in this thread.) She does indeed have leads in many of these polls among these theoretical voters, at least, in polls so far. These aren't voters, however. They are no more voters than hashtags are voters. They may turn out to be less so.

[72DejaVu]

44. Interesting take on things

My state doesn't caucus until March 6, but more than 8,000 votes have already been cast via absentee ballot. That's a decent number of non-entities in my book.

[JackRiddler]

48. Do you have a count on the mail ballots?

Then you are quite the insider, but I wouldn't think you would want to make that so obvious. Thinking Tammany again? Pride goeth before the fall...

[zappaman]

43. The internet seems to be working fine.

So as much as you hope this tanks Clinton, it won't.
Sorry.

[72DejaVu]

46. Oh No!

Are we going to get another explanation of the idiom now?

[zappaman]

49. ...

[nadinbrzezinski]

57. Yup, there is increasing evidence the hash tag was removed from trending maps

⭐ ⭐BERNIE ✊2016 ⭐ ⭐ ‏@TheLinzpooh 35s36 seconds ago
#WhichHillary, top trend, removed from Twitter while out-trending GOP debate!
#SHAMEONTWITTER

That is one of the reactions. And this should creep people out. Ah #somos132 all over again.

[Beartracks]

62. Twitter can de-trend a hashtag?

That sort of goes against the whole notion of "trending."

Twitter's value (and there is $ value) as a finger on the pulse of "what's happening right now" hinges strongly on them NOT trifling with those trends.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

65. Yes they can

but in my memory they have never done it in CONUS.

I am extremely familiar with #somos132... that lasted a week. Every time the new hash was removed, the kids started a new one. Finally twitter gave up and let the last one go though it's natural course.

[Beartracks]

84. I see it trending now @ 322K...

Oh, wait: There's also a WhichBernie hashtag? I think the answer is "Same one there's always been!"

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[nadinbrzezinski]

87. I can see it on the San Diego one

not the general

here

San Diego Trends · Change
#GOPDebate
#IdolTop10
#WorkFromHome
#EddieWouldGo
#WhichHillary
The 1975
Tony Burton
Octavia
Zodiac Killer
#MyFamilyIn4Words

But not in a general trend.

[arcane1]

59. Oh god... I was wondering what you meant about Rubio so I did some digging. I hadn't seen the debate

All I can say is

WOW!!! He was a like a parody of a phony politician!!!

[Nyan]

83. Republican establishment seems to like robotic types.

Remember Mitt? Rubio is their Hispanic Mitt. They do seem to be reaching out to minorities.

[Chicago1980]

60. That's not going to change the outcome in South Carolina.

[nadinbrzezinski]

61. Read the paras I posted

none is saying that. Though I would not completely discount it. Two days before, no polling data can account for this. Best case, and that is my personal outlier, polls will be off by 10 points.

Since Saturday is far from the last primary...

[grasswire]

71. it was the top story on AOL news all day.

And lordy, the comments on facebook are just red hot. I see a lot of AA young people tagging their friends to see it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

74. Let's just say they are breaking my site

traffic has exploded.

[zappaman]

91. your site went down because of all the traffic?

Wow!
That must have been some article you wrote!

Congrats!!!

[noiretextatique]

93. It is being posted by my younger black friends

With some very pointed comments.

[nadinbrzezinski]

94. Yup,

some of our local leaders (I "follow" them on FB), have been... well... a few have been not that polite.

[grasswire]

96. yes, I have seen that as well. nt

[tazkcmo]

67. I agree

and disagree. My feeling is Sec Clinton will win but not by as large a margin as before and possibly significantly less. Any ground Sen Sanders can gain keeps the total delegate count closer and there's still a lot of primary left. Just my 2 cents worth that's lost all of its value to inflation.

[jalan48]

66. Hillary's fake image took a big hit on this one. People are catching on.

[nadinbrzezinski]

69. I agree.

[BillZBubb]

81. Maybe, but turning an oil tanker takes time. The SS Hillary is Yuuuge!

The effect probably won't be felt much until after Super Tuesday. Hillary is still going to win big in all the southern primaries. She'll still own the conservative states--that's her base of support.

[nadinbrzezinski]

88. Correct, though I expect to see some effect

albeit small.

[Fiendish Thingy]

85. #WhichHillary?

Seems like someone should have mentioned the hashtag was all about...

[nadinbrzezinski]

92. Actually it is in the OP

Ashley Williams demonstrated the power, not only of Black Lives Matter, but also individual acts of courage. With social media, a single voice can trigger an avalanche.

Given the quite is straight from the article.

[nadinbrzezinski]

95. By the way, this is one of the more impressive memes

and lord knows many great ones have gone though...

:large

[arcane1]

104. I get the feeling she isn't too crazy about black people. She doesn't lean back for anyone else.

I swear, in that first video, she's damn near falling over backward trying to distance herself.

[nadinbrzezinski]

105. The body language was telling

[arcane1]

106. Come on, everyone loves having fingers pointed in their face! The true sign of compassion.

[nadinbrzezinski]

107. Lmao

Yup

[kgnu_fan]

98. Black Lives Matter nt

[MaggieD]

99. I checked - my internet is not broken

Working just fine.

[libdem4life]

112. That's nice. Something tells me you missed the digital point.

[nadinbrzezinski]

114. You are being too kind

the way some of these folks are laughing this up, tells me this is a talking point at this point. Then again I might be under estimating the level of ignorance regarding social media with older Americans. But I have a small sample of those, and a few can keep their own with the kids. So I might have a very biased sample



Oh hells bell, some are that ignorant though. But the way this became quickly a point of derision and a talking point was quite well, impressive. I wonder if this was just one of the many talking points that never made it to the twitter? This one would take ten minutes to be laughed out of there. They would not even bother with hitting the horse, let alone making into pulp.

[MoonRiver]

113. Hope springs eternal. eom

[Babel_17]

118. Do you see the narrative driving our primary as having changed?

Has there been in an increase in the general reservation towards Secretary Clinton's history, among her supporters, and the undecideds? If so, will that persist?

From where I sit, the electorate looks polarized. But I have to acknowledge that it's likely that in the later primary states a large percentage of voters are very far from being in either camp.

[nadinbrzezinski]

119. Too early to tell

If this has any effect on Super Tuesday or tomorrow, no poll can account for it. Super Tuesday they might.

We will know soon though relatively speaking.

And as far as my state. All polling information so far has Clinton leading, but my primary is in June... so there are some NATIONAL add buys on the cables... none on local tv or radio. As far as the lcoals are concerned the primary is news reporting in the paper (some) and the tv... and that is the extent of it.

So where I can see this is on Twitter, and facebook. Some of the NON political folks I follow, and they follow me, reacting quite badly to that video. That mind you is is far from scientific. Just as the HRC supporter berating the Sanders supporter at the meat department in my supermarket before this happened.

So I agree with the writer of that piece. It will take a little time to percolate, but if we are going to see an effect it will take some folks by surprise. For the moment, peeled the curtain a tad more, and working on a piece on how social media is used in elections. 2008 was an excellent example for instance. The obama team was way ahead of the curve. This election... to be honest, nobody is doing a very good job out of it.

[Babel_17]

122. Thanks ...

Yeah, I think an important question is if this will have a lasting impact on those "non political folks". Like the national election probably will, this primary shows the importance of the undecided voters, and the voters who don't reliably show up.

I don't see Sanders or Clinton as being generic candidates. And they have contrasting differences of opinion on some issues that are important to Democratic primary voters. So I think that goes to why we see a polarized electorate. And that makes doubly interesting those voters who haven't been polarized into either camp.

I'm hoping a lot of them just haven't gotten to know Senator Sanders. Needless to say, his meteoric improvement in the polls is due in part to getting himself known. I'm also hoping that if these uncommitted voters have "deal breakers" in mind, they'll break in Senator Sanders favor.

[nadinbrzezinski]

123. Well we live in a polarized country

and it is just getting worst.

Some of it though is the we know there is corruption in DC and they are not listening to us. This IMO is a change election, like 2008 was. And if people do not get real change though the ballot box, sooner or later they will conclude the only place left is the streets.

[Oilwellian]

121. My favorite photo at #whichhillary

It was captioned, "Who put Rosa Parks at the back of the H?"

So clever.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

125. Hilllary is starting to be exposed

She will probably win in SC but this ongoing exposure of what she really is will deter people from supporting her in the later races.