Wouldn't this primary season have been so much better had we done away with

the jury system altogether? I mean, we relaxed all sorts of rules around here, including bringing back every single tombstoned member just in time to shore up support for Hillary when she was getting creamed 5-1 here. Seems only fair.

Bill Moyers on why the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement is death for democracy

Papantonio: Get Ready For the Clinton Purge of Liberal Democrats

Just donated to Tim Canova again! Can you also? Let's rock this campaign!

Also, I gave to Bernie again today, too! Can you send him some love? Let's make sure he stays in to convention!

AM Alert: Bernie Sanders opens first California campaign office

Will California feel the Bern on Election Day? With less than two months to go until the state’s June primary, Bernie Sanders is aiming to cut Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s shrinking lead in the Golden State.

Sanders has already hit the airwaves in major markets, and an army of nurses is planning to stump on his behalf starting next month. Now his campaign will open its first official California office today in Los Angeles, ahead of what increasingly appears could be a fierce, down-to-the-wire battle for the country’s most delegate-rich state.

Of course, it may not ultimately matter if Clinton has clinched the nomination by then. But she’s not going to want an embarrassing, albeit symbolic, loss at the final stop on the primary calendar. Clinton has also been making the rounds of California lately, including raising big money with movie stars last week, though she has yet to open her own campaign office here.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article72768357.html#storylink=cpy

Sanders endorsed by Carrier Corp. workers union

Bernie Sanders' campaign announced Tuesday the Vermont senator had been endorsed by the union representing Carrier Corporation.

Around 1,400 jobs are expected to be lost from United Steelworkers Local 1999 because of Carrier's decision to outsource the positions to Mexico.

“Bernie Sanders for decades has fought against the kinds of disastrous trade deals that are now allowing Carrier to ship over a thousand good-paying Indiana jobs to Mexico,” said Local 1999 president Chuck Jones. “Bernie Sanders is the only candidate running for president who will do something to stop this kind of corporate greed if he is elected – because he’s been fighting against it for years. We will be doing everything we can to help him win the primary here in Indiana on May 3.”

Sanders previously denounced the decision by Carrier’s parent company, United Technologies, to move operations to Mexico.

http://www.wthr.com/story/31763717/sanders-endorsed-by-carrier-corp-workers-union

Once Ahead by 60 Points, Clinton National Lead over Sanders Has Dwindled to Zero

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Monday, April 18, 2016
byCommon Dreams
Once Ahead by 60 Points, Clinton National Lead over Sanders Has Dwindled to Zero
Latest NBC/WSJ poll shows Clinton holds just 2-point advantage
byJon Queally, staff writer

Though all political eyes in the U.S. are now focused like a laser beam on Tuesday's New York primary, the national trends remain startling when it comes to the intense competition between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Though Clinton led Sanders by sixty points when he entered the campaign less than a year ago, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Monday shows that lead has been "all but eliminated" – with only two percentage points now separating the Democratic candidates.

As the Journal reports, "The result continues a steady narrowing of the gap between the two Democratic candidates since January, when Mrs. Clinton led by 25 points, 59% to 34%. And it is a far cry from the way the race looked when Mr. Sanders began his campaign last year: In June 2015, a Journal/NBC poll found Mrs. Clinton leading by 60 percentage points, 75% to 15%."

Conducted between April 10-14, with a margin of error of +/-5.3 percent, the latest poll reveals a virtual tie and offers a stunning look at how far the Sanders campaign has come against a candidate that many considered "inevitable":

More: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/18/once-ahead-60-points-clinton-national-lead-over-sanders-has-dwindled-zero

Who designs the emoticons or whatever they are called for DU?

I'd like to suggest one that's a bear shitting in the woods. ~

Wouldn't you have thought Hillary would have bowed out before NY?

What an embarrassment it must be to limp into your home state, not only to have been contested, but to be losing ever so slowly (I be some even think painfully) to your opponent? She should have switched to the Republican party as soon as Bernie jumped in, just to have had a chance. Had she done that, she might have saved the Republican party. Musing aside, though, I bet those pledged Superdelegates are having internal angst at having pledged so early. It would make so much more sense not to have a delegate system in a "Democracy", but that's what we have, so it all come down to persuasion, and these "elections" we have are just window dressing.