April 28, 2016

Exclusive: Half of Americans think presidential nominating system 'rigged' - poll

As a former Democratic Nominee for U.S. House, I can testify that the system is "geared" to ensure that "Establishment" candidates who "Play Ball" with the people who own the system... prevail.

By Chris Kahn

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than half of American voters believe that the system U.S. political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is "rigged" and more than two-thirds want to see the process changed, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

The results echo complaints from Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Bernie Sanders that the system is stacked against them in favor of candidates with close ties to their parties – a critique that has triggered a nationwide debate over whether the process is fair.

The United States is one of just a handful of countries that gives regular voters any say in who should make it onto the presidential ballot. But the state-by-state system of primaries, caucuses and conventions is complex. The contests historically were always party events, and while the popular vote has grown in influence since the mid-20th century, the parties still have considerable sway.

One quirk of the U.S. system - and the area where the parties get to flex their muscle - is the use of delegates, party members who are assigned to support contenders at their respective conventions, usually based on voting results. The parties decide how delegates are awarded in each state, with the Republicans and Democrats having different rules.

The delegates' personal opinions can come into play at the party conventions if the race is too close to call - an issue that has become a lightning rod in the current political season.

Another complication is that state governments have different rules about whether voters must be registered as party members to participate. In some states, parties further restrict delegate selection to small committees of party elites, as the Republican Party in Colorado did this year. SNIP

'ARCANE RULES'

Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the U.S. presidential nominating system could probably be improved in a number of areas, but noted that the control wielded by party leadership usually became an issue only during tight races.

"The popular vote overwhelms the rules usually, but in these close elections, everyone pays attention to these arcane rules," he said.

Some 51 percent of likely voters who responded to the April 21-26 online survey said they believed the primary system was "rigged" against some candidates. Some 71 percent of respondents said they would prefer to pick their party’s nominee with a direct vote, cutting out the use of delegates as intermediaries.

The results also showed 27 percent of likely voters did not understand how the primary process works and 44 percent did not understand why delegates were involved in the first place. The responses were about the same for Republicans and Democrats.

Overall, nearly half said they would also prefer a single primary day in which all states held their nominating contests together - as opposed to the current system of spreading them out for months.

The poll included 1,582 Americans and had a credibility interval of 2.9 percentage points. SNIP

https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-half-americans-think-presidential-nominating-system-rigged-100523399.html

April 27, 2016

What IS THIS? Bernie's Votes Going Down... CAUGHT LIVE! Screen Shots In Article!

https://electionfraud2016.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/election-live-results-observers-catch-sanders-votes-going-down-screen-shot/


As a candidate for congress in 2006, I witnessed the same sort of thing going on LIVE in returns in my election. We did not screen shot it though.

THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY! Can someone please copy and paste the screen shots into the comments. THIS IS IMPORTANT!

April 27, 2016

Funny, I Thought The Hillary "Victory" Fund Was Intended For The General Election When Tonight....

I saw THIS... A full page Hillary Ad on the YAHOO sign on page with the line... "Paid For By The Hillary Victory Fund"

Go here to see it... Paste it in here if you're able to... https://www.facebook.com/Corporatist-Nation-188712351184604/

Thoughts? Running out of campaign ca$h?

April 24, 2016

A Vote FOR Bernie Is A Vote FOR DEMOCRACY! A Vote For Hillary Is A Vote FOR ?

The Reform of Campaign Finance Laws... or NOT?

Taking Effective Action on Climate Change in a Timely Manner or NOT?

Ensuring that ALL Americans have access to the full spectrum of quality affordable health care including preventative and dental... or NOT?

Ensuring that EVERY American irrespective of their race, creed, sexual orientation or socio-economic strata will be treated equally... or NOT?

Ensuring that ALL Americans are able to exercise their Right to Vote... or NOT?

Ensuring that if America enters into international trade agreements that American workers suffer no harm or NOT?

Ensuring that Tax laws are reformed to ensure that income taxes are progressive throughout the range of incomes and that capitol gains are treated as ordinary income and taxed accordingly... or NOT?

Ensuring that American foreign policy does not include regime change or corporate interests as guiding parameters for use of military assets or not.

Ensuring that politicians who violate federal laws are held accountable to the fullest extent of the law... or NOT?

Ensuring that American workers are afforded a living wage... or NOT?

Ensuring that every effort is made to excise corporate influence (money, perqs etc.) from American politics including Citizens United... or NOT?

Ensuring that the person who eventually gets the keys to the Oval Office can be trusted with regard to every word and action that they do as President and Commander in Chief... or NOT?

April 21, 2016

Bernie MUST Stay In Until The Convention Votes! THIS FIGHT IS ABOUT Whether There IS Democracy

in America or NOT!



The funny thing is that all of the "issues" ALWAYS benefited... The Inevitable One... Which is objectively speaking...

Statistically IMPROBABLE!

Everyone is talking about Voter SUPPRESSION in New York... EXCEPT FOR ONE PERSON...

Anyone with an ounce of conscience should find that in and of itself... concerning....

April 21, 2016

Any Bernie Supporters Receiving This CRAP? THE Underhanded Propaganda Effort To "Unite" Dems!

RE: PROGRESSIVE TURNOUT PROJECT.... They are sending similar messages and polls which end in a request for Ca$h.... (3 Dollars) Coming from a variety of E Addresses always asking.... Do you think Bernie can win?

PSYCH... Want us to question our resolve re: Bernie....

So THIS IS The Clinton Campaign to UNITE Democrats? Key Words: Our, Unite, Join...

TEXT from Email..

Bernie Sanders continues to build on his momentum, most recently with a big win in Wisconsin.

This race is close. Hillary still has a clear lead in delegates, but the Sanders campaign is confident that they’re favored in upcoming primary states. Plus, the primaries for must-win states like California, New York, and Pennsylvania are still far enough away for Bernie to pick up momentum.

Despite record levels of engagement in recent surveys, with a race this close, our research team needs to know what Democrats like you think about Bernie’s chances to secure the Democratic nomination. WHY? WHY should I tell YOU?

Please respond as soon as possible. Thanks!

http://go.turnoutpac.org/Bernie

Thanks for taking the poll!

- The Progressive Turnout Project

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Another one... I received THREE so far tonight alone!!! Varying E Addresses...

BREAKING:

Oh... you mean Hillary joined/followed... Bernie????

Click here to stand with them and DEMAND Arizona dismantle its voter suppression laws ?

FIRST: Arizona’s Democratic primary saw voters waiting in line for HOURS just to cast a vote

THEN: The Department of Justice launched a federal investigation to figure out what went wrong

NOW: Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have joined together to SUE the state of Arizona and demand a restoration of voter rights You mean when voter rights became important as voters were being systematically DISENFRANCHISED... Hillary FOLLOWED Bernie in ... "taking a stand?" HILLARYOUS!

The Republican-controlled state legislature in Arizona has been passing measures to make it harder to vote.

One of those measures included slashing the number of polling places in Democratic-leaning regions by up to 70%.

Fortunately, our presidential candidates are taking a unified stand against GOP-backed voter suppression and standing up for voting rights. So yesterday in NYC/Brooklyn/and Environs... WHICH Party was behind all of the Voter Suppression there? No mention of Voter Issues from Hillary last night!

So how much does the GOP have to do with this really? I thought the GOP despised Hillary and were her "Arch Enemy?" Who benefited from the scam? It took Hillary a while to "join" Bernie in contesting the voter suppression ANYWHERE! Funny, I have not heard a peep out of Hillary re: all the suppression in Brooklyn... Her supposed HOME BASE????

Add your name right now to stand with Bernie and Hillary AGAINST voter suppression ?

In Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest, polling sites were cut to just 60 from 200. Maricopa County leans Democratic and saw some of the longest lines at polling sites in the primary. In Phoenix, there was just one polling place for every 108,000 voters.

To make matters worse, CNN reports that voters complained after being told that they couldn’t vote because they were registered as Independents.

Voter suppression exists because Republican voters consistently turn out to vote for right-wing politicians who manipulate the system to keep themselves in power.

That’s why we need to stand with Bernie and (Hillary) as they fight for voters’ rights.

Click the link below today to stand with Bernie and Hillary and demand that Arizona dismantle its voter suppression laws:

http://go.turnoutpac.org/No-Voter-Suppression Funny... Hillary Standing Up? For Voter Rights????
LOTS of Election Manipulation SHIT in NYC... and NOT a peep outa Hillary....

Thanks for adding your voice,

- The Progressive Turnout Project Anybody want to research where this PAC is "coming from?"

THIS Looks like a Brock Project or similar!

Tell the "Progressive Turnout Project" That WE Are NOT THIS Fucking STUPID!

April 15, 2016

Hillary "I Still Support A NO FLY ZONE Over Syria!"

Really...? And Madam Secretary what nation's planes might American pilots be charged with enforcing your No Fly Zone Against?

Answer... RUSSIA!

NO FLY ZONE OVER SYRIA? One more sordid example of wrong headed judgement on the part of Hillary Clinton!

As Bernie has duly noted... She does not consider the consequences of her decisions especially ones of significant magnitude such as the potential for a shooting confrontation with a Super Power such as RUSSIA.

April 13, 2016

Fund Raiser For Hillary... Thoughts?

A fundraiser for any Presidential candidate that includes those who carry the ball when it comes to regulating Wall Street should give any reader pause... This is about the "revolving door" and how it fits into the architecture of one candidate's candidates Presidential Campaign.


Access for the few at the expense of the many...

Hillary Clinton Fundraiser Hosted by All-Star Cast of Financial Regulators Who Joined Wall Street

Shouldn't people go into politics to make life better for everybody -- not just the wealthy or one's friends?

Hillary Clinton Fundraiser Hosted by All-Star Cast of Financial Regulators Who Joined Wall Street

Zaid Jilani
The Intercept, Apr. 6 2016



The invitation for the April 6 fundraiser, obtained by Sunlight Foundation’s Political Party Time, describes a “conversation” with the Clinton campaign’s chief financial officer, Gary Gensler, and Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Carl Levin, D-Mich.

The host: Julie Chon, a former Senate Banking Committee staffer who today is a managing director at the New York hedge fund Perry Capital.

Finance chair Gensler is a former Goldman Sachs staffer who later joined the Obama administration as a financial regulator.

Several members of the organizing committee are now either advocating for corporate clients or advising them how to best work with and around the regulations they once enforced.

SNIP...

Organizer Dan M. Berkovitz was the general counsel of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2009 to 2013. Today, he is a partner at WilmerHale LLP, which says his “clients, both domestic and international, include entities in ongoing U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) investigations, multi-national swap dealers, managed funds, a major U.S. manufacturer, and industry trade and advocacy associations.”

CONTINUED...
A Note: The source is immaterial... It is the content that counts! Given that this event actually took place and it did, then the source should not be used as an excuse to censor.

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/06/hillary-clinton-fundraiser-hosted-by-all-star-cast-of-financial-regulators-who-left-to-join-wall-street/

April 12, 2016

Bernie Rocks Buffalo. He Also Did Something Else. Visiting Local 1122

Sanders turned out a huge crowd. He also took a notable detour

I sincerely hope that nobody has a problem with this post....

Before Bernie Sanders spoke to over 11,000 people on Monday at the University of Buffalo, he made a brief unscheduled stop. The crowd in the alumni arena was more diverse than most Sanders rallies—not as diverse as Buffalo itself, a city where non-Hispanic whites are in the minority, but with a greater number of black and brown faces than I’d seen in other rallies in other parts of the country. And like every Sanders rally I’ve been to, the crowd was happy to be there, shouting “Ber-nie! Ber-nie!” at every rumor of the candidate’s appearance, and gleefully taking selfies of one another before, during, and after Sanders’s 90 minute speech.

The audience at Sanders’s first stop was a lot quieter, a lot older, a lot whiter—and a whole lot smaller. They were pleased to see Sanders, but there was no mistaking the scene at Local 1122 of the Communications Workers of America for a rock concert or a sporting event. These were 25 shop stewards at Verizon who had to prepare their members to go on strike on Wednesday morning, and the mood in the room was a mixture of anxiety and defiant anger.

“It’s getting old, having to fight just to keep our jobs,” said Larry Turner, a 25 year veteran. “Ever since the merger with Bell Atlantic it seems like we have to keep fighting just to stay in place. They were supposed to be building FiOS here in Buffalo and they just stopped.”



http://www.thenation.com/article/bernie-rocks-buffalo/