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MrWendel
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February 26, 2016
By First Amendment
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When they polled last year, Sanders was relatively unknown. He’s made gains. It was 73% - 3% in June 2015. They did make it a point in the article to question the Nevada entrance/exit polling.
The national poll reinforces that as well. Clinton leads by 29 points overall -- but trails with those under the age of 35. With every other Hispanic age group, though, Clinton dominates.
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WaPo-Univision News National Survey Of Hispanic Voters. Hillary Clinton Leads 57% - 28%.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/25/1490700/-WaPo-Univision-News-National-Survey-Of-Hispanic-Voters-Hillary-Clinton-Leads-57-28By First Amendment
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When they polled last year, Sanders was relatively unknown. He’s made gains. It was 73% - 3% in June 2015. They did make it a point in the article to question the Nevada entrance/exit polling.
The national poll reinforces that as well. Clinton leads by 29 points overall -- but trails with those under the age of 35. With every other Hispanic age group, though, Clinton dominates.
(More in link)
February 26, 2016
By First Amendment
apps.washingtonpost.com/...
www.washingtonpost.com/…
When they polled last year, Sanders was relatively unknown. He’s made gains. It was 73% - 3% in June 2015. They did make it a point in the article to question the Nevada entrance/exit polling.
The national poll reinforces that as well. Clinton leads by 29 points overall -- but trails with those under the age of 35. With every other Hispanic age group, though, Clinton dominates.
(More in link)
WaPo-Univision News National Survey Of Hispanic Voters. Hillary Clinton Leads 57% - 28%.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/25/1490700/-WaPo-Univision-News-National-Survey-Of-Hispanic-Voters-Hillary-Clinton-Leads-57-28By First Amendment
apps.washingtonpost.com/...
www.washingtonpost.com/…
When they polled last year, Sanders was relatively unknown. He’s made gains. It was 73% - 3% in June 2015. They did make it a point in the article to question the Nevada entrance/exit polling.
The national poll reinforces that as well. Clinton leads by 29 points overall -- but trails with those under the age of 35. With every other Hispanic age group, though, Clinton dominates.
(More in link)
February 26, 2016
By wdrath
A new national poll by Morning Consult has Hillary leading Bernie by 15 percentage points, 50-35. the poll was conducted Feb. 24-25.
The same pollster had Hillary beating Bernie by eight points, 47-39, a week ago (Feb. 15-16).
The new poll shows Donald Trump leading his competitors nationally, with 42 percent, followed by Marco Rubio with 19 percent, Ted Cruz with 14, Ben Carson with nine, John Kasich with five percent.
http://morningconsult.com/2016/02/poll-hillary-clinton-increases-lead-over-bernie-sanders/
New National Poll Has Hillary Leading Bernie 50-35 (Morning Consult)
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/25/1491543/-New-National-Poll-Has-Hillary-Leading-Bernie-50-35By wdrath
A new national poll by Morning Consult has Hillary leading Bernie by 15 percentage points, 50-35. the poll was conducted Feb. 24-25.
The same pollster had Hillary beating Bernie by eight points, 47-39, a week ago (Feb. 15-16).
The new poll shows Donald Trump leading his competitors nationally, with 42 percent, followed by Marco Rubio with 19 percent, Ted Cruz with 14, Ben Carson with nine, John Kasich with five percent.
http://morningconsult.com/2016/02/poll-hillary-clinton-increases-lead-over-bernie-sanders/
February 26, 2016
By wdrath
A new national poll by Morning Consult has Hillary leading Bernie by 15 percentage points, 50-35. the poll was conducted Feb. 24-25.
The same pollster had Hillary beating Bernie by eight points, 47-39, a week ago (Feb. 15-16).
The new poll shows Donald Trump leading his competitors nationally, with 42 percent, followed by Marco Rubio with 19 percent, Ted Cruz with 14, Ben Carson with nine, John Kasich with five percent.
http://morningconsult.com/2016/02/poll-hillary-clinton-increases-lead-over-bernie-sanders/
New National Poll Has Hillary Leading Bernie 50-35 (Morning Consult)
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/25/1491543/-New-National-Poll-Has-Hillary-Leading-Bernie-50-35By wdrath
A new national poll by Morning Consult has Hillary leading Bernie by 15 percentage points, 50-35. the poll was conducted Feb. 24-25.
The same pollster had Hillary beating Bernie by eight points, 47-39, a week ago (Feb. 15-16).
The new poll shows Donald Trump leading his competitors nationally, with 42 percent, followed by Marco Rubio with 19 percent, Ted Cruz with 14, Ben Carson with nine, John Kasich with five percent.
http://morningconsult.com/2016/02/poll-hillary-clinton-increases-lead-over-bernie-sanders/
February 25, 2016
There is an amazing amount of amnesia when it comes to the sudden love and support of BLM...
Y'all musta forgot...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251502334
February 25, 2016
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski should be herded into a rocket and shot into space for their brown-nosing of Trump
BY MATT TAIBBI
"You have me almost as a legendary figure, I like that," Donald Trump recently told Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski
All-time great comedian Harry Shearer, the man who brought us voices from The Simpsons and cucumber-hoarding bass player Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap, has broken an embarrassing story about us journalists.
In his Le Show podcast, he released audio of off-camera dialogue between Donald Trump and ostensible news figures Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of the MSNBC program Morning Joe. The tape covers breaks in a town hall segment the trio filmed in South Carolina last week.
The embarrassing part starts when Brzezinski compliments Trump on his campaign stagecraft. She comments that it was a "wow" moment when Trump invited onstage two meatheads who tossed a protester from one of his South Carolina events.
A side note: The vigorous physical expulsion of loser-protesters has become a predictable scene at Trump events. Every time I've seen it in person, it's freaked me out — it's like a window into some future WWE-style dissident-beheading ritual — but Mika apparently thought the video of the South Carolina incident was inspiring.
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Morning Blow: How Joe and Mika Became Trump's Lapdogs
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/morning-blow-how-joe-and-mika-became-trumps-lapdogs-20160223Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski should be herded into a rocket and shot into space for their brown-nosing of Trump
BY MATT TAIBBI
"You have me almost as a legendary figure, I like that," Donald Trump recently told Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski
All-time great comedian Harry Shearer, the man who brought us voices from The Simpsons and cucumber-hoarding bass player Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap, has broken an embarrassing story about us journalists.
In his Le Show podcast, he released audio of off-camera dialogue between Donald Trump and ostensible news figures Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of the MSNBC program Morning Joe. The tape covers breaks in a town hall segment the trio filmed in South Carolina last week.
The embarrassing part starts when Brzezinski compliments Trump on his campaign stagecraft. She comments that it was a "wow" moment when Trump invited onstage two meatheads who tossed a protester from one of his South Carolina events.
A side note: The vigorous physical expulsion of loser-protesters has become a predictable scene at Trump events. Every time I've seen it in person, it's freaked me out — it's like a window into some future WWE-style dissident-beheading ritual — but Mika apparently thought the video of the South Carolina incident was inspiring.
(More in link)
February 25, 2016
Donald Trump has often boasted that he would win with Hispanic voters in a general election.
Now comes some new data to test that dubious theory: Hillary Clinton is leading the 2016 presidential field among Hispanics, according to the results of a new poll of registered Hispanic voters out Thursday morning from Univision and The Washington Post.
The former secretary of state is the top choice of Hispanic voters overall — Democratic, Republican and independent — with 39 percent, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders behind her at 19 percent.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (8 percent), Trump (7 percent) and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (7 percent) are all basically tied. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (who has since dropped from the race) had 4 percent and Carson and Kasich each had 1 percent.
Among Hispanic Democrats, Clinton has a strong lead, 57 percent to Sanders’ 28 percent. But that number has gone down from 73 percent in June, when Sanders was at just 3 percent among Hispanics.
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Poll: Clinton crushes Trump among Hispanics
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/poll-hispanics-2016-trump-219763Donald Trump has often boasted that he would win with Hispanic voters in a general election.
Now comes some new data to test that dubious theory: Hillary Clinton is leading the 2016 presidential field among Hispanics, according to the results of a new poll of registered Hispanic voters out Thursday morning from Univision and The Washington Post.
The former secretary of state is the top choice of Hispanic voters overall — Democratic, Republican and independent — with 39 percent, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders behind her at 19 percent.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (8 percent), Trump (7 percent) and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (7 percent) are all basically tied. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (who has since dropped from the race) had 4 percent and Carson and Kasich each had 1 percent.
Among Hispanic Democrats, Clinton has a strong lead, 57 percent to Sanders’ 28 percent. But that number has gone down from 73 percent in June, when Sanders was at just 3 percent among Hispanics.
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February 25, 2016
Donald Trump has often boasted that he would win with Hispanic voters in a general election.
Now comes some new data to test that dubious theory: Hillary Clinton is leading the 2016 presidential field among Hispanics, according to the results of a new poll of registered Hispanic voters out Thursday morning from Univision and The Washington Post.
The former secretary of state is the top choice of Hispanic voters overall — Democratic, Republican and independent — with 39 percent, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders behind her at 19 percent.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (8 percent), Trump (7 percent) and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (7 percent) are all basically tied. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (who has since dropped from the race) had 4 percent and Carson and Kasich each had 1 percent.
Among Hispanic Democrats, Clinton has a strong lead, 57 percent to Sanders’ 28 percent. But that number has gone down from 73 percent in June, when Sanders was at just 3 percent among Hispanics.
(More in link)
Poll: Clinton crushes Trump among Hispanics
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/poll-hispanics-2016-trump-219763Donald Trump has often boasted that he would win with Hispanic voters in a general election.
Now comes some new data to test that dubious theory: Hillary Clinton is leading the 2016 presidential field among Hispanics, according to the results of a new poll of registered Hispanic voters out Thursday morning from Univision and The Washington Post.
The former secretary of state is the top choice of Hispanic voters overall — Democratic, Republican and independent — with 39 percent, with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders behind her at 19 percent.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (8 percent), Trump (7 percent) and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (7 percent) are all basically tied. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (who has since dropped from the race) had 4 percent and Carson and Kasich each had 1 percent.
Among Hispanic Democrats, Clinton has a strong lead, 57 percent to Sanders’ 28 percent. But that number has gone down from 73 percent in June, when Sanders was at just 3 percent among Hispanics.
(More in link)
February 25, 2016
In the final days before the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, things are getting heated as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders battle for black votes in a state with a large black electorate. Things got a little hotter Wednesday night when a #BlackLivesMatter activist confronted Hillary at a private event in Charleston, South Carolina. Activist Ashley Williams interrupted Clinton’s remarks by holding up a cloth sign that read “We Have to Bring Them to Heel,” a reference to comments she made in 1996, and demanded an apology from Hillary:
(Video in link)
Before peeling away the layers of this onion, it’s important to give Ashley Williams major points for execution. According to The Huffington Post, she and her videographer paid $500 to get into the event, and maneuvered themselves into some prime real estate at the front of the crowd. Facts aside, the optics of the confrontation are all on Williams’ side, as politicians still haven’t learned that “Why don’t you stop talking and listen to me?” is not an effective way to engage activists you care about engaging.
Facts are stubborn things, though, and they’re not on Ashley Williams’ side here, at least not entirely. Her first demand, that Hillary apologize for mass incarceration that many blame on the 1994 crime bill that then-President Bill Clinton signed into law, is somewhat moot because the Clintons have already done that, and because apologizing for it won’t fix it. Hillary never voted for that bill, although as First Lady, she did stump for it.
Part of that effort was to give a speech in 1996 (not 1994) in which she did, indeed, use the term “Superpredators,” but context is important here. This was one line in a speech about a broader agenda, in which the issue of crime was at the end of a long list, and in which she advocated community policing in literally the same breath. Here’s what she actually said:
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Black Lives Matter Activist Demands Hillary Clinton Apologize Based on a Lie
http://www.mediaite.com/online/black-lives-matter-activist-demands-hillary-clinton-apologize-based-on-a-lie/In the final days before the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, things are getting heated as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders battle for black votes in a state with a large black electorate. Things got a little hotter Wednesday night when a #BlackLivesMatter activist confronted Hillary at a private event in Charleston, South Carolina. Activist Ashley Williams interrupted Clinton’s remarks by holding up a cloth sign that read “We Have to Bring Them to Heel,” a reference to comments she made in 1996, and demanded an apology from Hillary:
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Clinton: (reading sign) We have to bring them to heel.
Williams: We hope you apologize for mass incarceration.
Clinton: Okay, we’ll talk about it.
Williams: I’m not a Superpredator, Hillary Clinton.
Clinton: Okay, we’ll talk about it.
Williams: Will you apologize to black people for mass incarceration?
Clinton: Can I talk? And maybe you can listen to what I say.
(someone in crowd hisses)
Williams: You called black people “Superpredators.”
Crowd: That’s not appropriate. You’re being rude.
Williams: You called black people “Superpredators,” that’s rude.
Clinton: Okay, you want to hear the facts, or you want to just talk?
Williams: I know that you called black youth “Superpredators” in 1994. Please explain for the record. Please explain it to us. You owe black people an apology.
Before peeling away the layers of this onion, it’s important to give Ashley Williams major points for execution. According to The Huffington Post, she and her videographer paid $500 to get into the event, and maneuvered themselves into some prime real estate at the front of the crowd. Facts aside, the optics of the confrontation are all on Williams’ side, as politicians still haven’t learned that “Why don’t you stop talking and listen to me?” is not an effective way to engage activists you care about engaging.
Facts are stubborn things, though, and they’re not on Ashley Williams’ side here, at least not entirely. Her first demand, that Hillary apologize for mass incarceration that many blame on the 1994 crime bill that then-President Bill Clinton signed into law, is somewhat moot because the Clintons have already done that, and because apologizing for it won’t fix it. Hillary never voted for that bill, although as First Lady, she did stump for it.
Part of that effort was to give a speech in 1996 (not 1994) in which she did, indeed, use the term “Superpredators,” but context is important here. This was one line in a speech about a broader agenda, in which the issue of crime was at the end of a long list, and in which she advocated community policing in literally the same breath. Here’s what she actually said:
(More with video in link)
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