March 18, 2016

Hillary News & Views 3.18: Arizona, Trump, bell hooks, Supreme Court, EPAC, Disliking Hillary

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/18/1503199/-Hillary-News-Views-3-18-Arizona-Trump-bell-hooks-Supreme-Court-EPAC-Disliking-Hillary

By Lysis



oday’s Hillary News & Views begins with a look at the upcoming primary in Arizona.

Politico reports:

The pattern in Democratic primaries and caucuses so far is that Sanders has had the advantage among younger voters and less diverse electorates while Clinton has had the upper hand in more diverse electorates and among older voters. Arizona is closer to the latter.

"She's doing very well with whites over 50, which is most whites. Half of the [early] white vote that’s in is over 65," Quinlan said, pointing to that as a positive sign for Clinton. "Frankly I just think Hillary's organization is stronger and the fact is I just think she has a built-in Demographic advantage."

Sanders isn’t just fighting demographics in Arizona – he’s also fighting against a candidate who is very well known in the state.

"The Clintons have been very popular in Arizona. President Bill Clinton has visited on multiple occasions to campaign on behalf of Democrats over the last two, four cycles," said Arizona Democratic Party chairwoman Alexis Tameron. "So there's a familial essence to that. And I also do think it's a belief amongst political types that Latinos are drawn to the Clintons like Latinos are drawn to the Kennedys type of reference in which you can see that places like Texas where she performs pretty well in polling and has performed pretty well in presidential contests."

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March 18, 2016

Emerson New York Poll: Clinton +48

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/17/1503092/-Emerson-New-York-Poll-Clinton-48

By TheKF1

media.wix.com/…

A New Emerson New York poll shows Clinton crushing Sanders 71-23, winning every single demographic group except 18-34 year olds, which she loses only by 13%. She is ahead by Southern-like margins among African Americans (72-22) as well as claiming 73% of women and 66% of men. Her smallest lead in any over-34 age group is 35-54 year olds, whom she takes by 45%.

Obviously New York is the state Hillary represented in the Senate and or which she was elected twice, but it’s worth noting that the Sanders campaign have been playing up their ability to pull off a surprise there recently, e.g. calling it a ‘showdown’ in a conference call after Tuesday, on which

“both Devine and Weaver stressed that upcoming contests in Western states — Arizona, Washington, California, Idaho — and also in New York, would be far friendlier to Sanders than to Clinton.”

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March 18, 2016

Fellow Clinton supporters, our time has come. Let us rise and go do terrible evil unto the world.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/17/1503061/-Fellow-Clinton-supporters-our-time-has-come-Let-us-rise-and-go-do-terrible-evil-unto-the-world

By motocat



Here is just a sample of quotes from stories on the rec list in the past 48 hours about Hillary and her supporters!

(Hillary and those like her are) a sad and empty souls for whom I feel nothing but pity. Such people never had the courage to stand strong for anything — or only in a half-hearted way, many years ago in their youth, now long forgotten.

(Hillary Supporters) who support the corporate-sponsored established oligarchy are the gate keepers for the one percent and their rarefied overlords who comprise the .01%.

Hillary Supporters have cognitive dissonance which annoys them to the point where they resort to logical fallacies to mask the internal conflict and thereby ease their minds

(Clinton) always had an easy, breezy relationship with wrongdoing. But the Democratic Party overlooked the ethical red flags and made a pact with Mr. Clinton that was the equivalent of a pact with the devil. And he delivered.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but my sad and empty soul is ready to rise from my solid gold 1% crypt and join the rest of the oligarchy in destroying America! Only by doing unspeakable evils will my mind be eased, and my pact with the devil made whole. As was prophesied, by defeating the savior of humanity and one true Democrat, we bring about a new era of terror. I eagerly await our orders from Madam President.

March 18, 2016

Fellow Clinton supporters, our time has come. Let us rise and go do terrible evil unto the world.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/17/1503061/-Fellow-Clinton-supporters-our-time-has-come-Let-us-rise-and-go-do-terrible-evil-unto-the-world

By motocat



Here is just a sample of quotes from stories on the rec list in the past 48 hours about Hillary and her supporters!

(Hillary and those like her are) a sad and empty souls for whom I feel nothing but pity. Such people never had the courage to stand strong for anything — or only in a half-hearted way, many years ago in their youth, now long forgotten.

(Hillary Supporters) who support the corporate-sponsored established oligarchy are the gate keepers for the one percent and their rarefied overlords who comprise the .01%.

Hillary Supporters have cognitive dissonance which annoys them to the point where they resort to logical fallacies to mask the internal conflict and thereby ease their minds

(Clinton) always had an easy, breezy relationship with wrongdoing. But the Democratic Party overlooked the ethical red flags and made a pact with Mr. Clinton that was the equivalent of a pact with the devil. And he delivered.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but my sad and empty soul is ready to rise from my solid gold 1% crypt and join the rest of the oligarchy in destroying America! Only by doing unspeakable evils will my mind be eased, and my pact with the devil made whole. As was prophesied, by defeating the savior of humanity and one true Democrat, we bring about a new era of terror. I eagerly await our orders from Madam President.

March 17, 2016

Hillary News & Views 3.17: Hillary's Historic Victories Do Not Shield Her From Misogyny

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/17/1502723/-Hillary-News-Views-3-17-Hillary-s-Historic-Victories-Do-Not-Shield-Her-From-Misogyny

By Lysis



Here’s the latest count from The Green Papers, which has Clinton +325 in pledged delegates:

The state of the presidential nominating process on the Democratic Party side is now pretty much established: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rocked Senator Bernie Sanders' world this past Tuesday, sweeping all five Presidential Primaries held that day and- despite the "scare" the Sanders campaign might well have put in Mrs. Clinton's supporters (however much they might deny it now) via Senator Sanders' upset victory in Michigan the week before- Secretary Clinton seems well on her way to the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nomination.

This does not, of course, mean that Senator Sanders is now going to go away (nor should he! As I have written often enough before on this website [and I have said this about both Democratic and Republican presidential contenders over the now 5 Presidential Election cycles The Green Papers has been online]: if you want to run for President of the United States- even against overwhelming odds against your own success- in order to put forth the public policy options in which you most fervently believe and can still manage to have enough campaign funding to do so, then- by all means- this is America and you should just do it! Whenever I am asked whether or not this presidential contender, or that one, should now drop out of the nomination race [more usually the person doing the asking is someone who supports a different presidential contender doing better in the race], my initial response is always "Why?&quot . Senator Sanders has every right to continue to fight on, should he (and his own supporters) wish him to- certainly so long as he has not been mathematically eliminated from winning his Party's presidential nomination, if not beyond (so as to, perhaps, present his own political agenda before the Convention in Philadelphia)...

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March 17, 2016

Clinton Increases Pledged Delegate Lead, +323. 1,151 - 828. Pending, 39 Delegates to Allocate.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/17/1502777/-Clinton-Increases-Pledge-Delegate-Lead-323-1-151-828-Pending-39-Delegates-to-Allocate

By First Amendment


FiveThirtyEight pledged delegate tracker

FiveThirtyEight has updated their online pledged delegate tracker.

New totals: 1,151 - 828, Clinton. projects.fivethirtyeight.com/...

Clinton’s new net pledged delegate lead is, +323. Clinton currently has a net gain of +100 delegates from Super Tuesday 2, (376 - 276).

There are still 39 delegates pending to be allocated. 16 of those outstanding pledged delegates are from Florida, so realistically Clinton’s lead could increase.

Pledged delegates left to allocate:

-Florida - 16
-Illinois - 21
-Missouri - 0
-North Carolina - 0
-Ohio - 2

39 pledged delegates yet to allocate

The NYT Upshot has a very cool interactive delegate calculator at the link below and according to their current calculator, Sanders must win all remaining contests with roughly 62% of the vote to overcome Clinton’s pledged delegate advantage. If you notice, it isn't updated with the very latest delegate totals. Going forward, Sanders must win all remaining contests like Clinton won in the south.


The Upshot interactive delegate calculator

NYT Upshot Interactive delegate calculator www.nytimes.com/...

March 17, 2016

Pro-Hillary PAC Throws Trump’s Ad Back at Him, Mocks His ‘Good Brain’

http://www.mediaite.com/online/pro-hillary-pac-throws-trumps-ad-back-at-him-mocks-his-good-brain/

by Sam Reisman

The pro-Hillary Clinton super-PAC Priorities USA released a new video Thursday responding to — and reversing — the ad Donald Trump released the previous day.

In Trump’s original video, footage of an ISIS fighter and Russian President Vladimir Putin chuckling and performing mixed martial arts were juxtaposed with Clinton’s unfortunate decision to start barking like a dog in the middle of a rally. It concluded: “We don’t need to be a punchline.”



The Priorities USA video mirrors the structure, opening with the same Putin and ISIS images before cutting to a segment of Morning Joe.

“Who are you consulting with consistently so that you’re ready on day one?” Mika Brzezinski asks Trump.

“I’m speaking with myself, number one,” Trump responds, “because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things,” whereupon the ad cuts to a snickering Clinton and the repurposed tagline: “We don’t need to be a punchline.”

March 16, 2016

Clinton Expands Pledged Delegate Lead, +322. +99 Net Gain Per FiveThirtyEight, More to Allocate.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/16/1502266/-Clinton-Expands-Pledged-Delegate-Lead-322-99-Net-Gain-per-FiveThirtyEight-and-More-to-Allocate

By First Amendment


Clinton pledged delegate lead 1,100 - 778

It was a awesome night for the Clinton campaign. 5 wins on Super Tuesday 2 and plenty of pledged delegates added to her already formidable lead. 551 of the 691 pledged delegates have been allocated and thus far it’s 325 - 226 Clinton.

projects.fivethirtyeight.com/...

At this moment, per FiveThirtyEight’s pledged delegate tracker, it’s currently a +99 net gain for Clinton from her prior lead of +223. Tentatively, +322 lead for Clinton.

According to the tracker, there are still 140 delegates to be allocated.



Then Senator Obama largest lead in 2008 was 157 delegates. Clinton won several large states after he established this lead. She was never able to recover from this deficit. Her lead over Sanders is now more than twice as large as Obama ever had.

When the remaining delegates from yesterday are calculated, she should increase her current lead even further.

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March 16, 2016

Hillary News & Views 3.16: Clinton's Victory Speech, Delegate Lead Dramatically Increased

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/16/1502116/-Hillary-News-Views-3-16-Clinton-s-Victory-Speech-Delegate-Lead-Dramatically-Increased

By Lysis



oday’s Hillary News & Views begins with Clinton’s victory speech in West Palm Beach, Florida, given after her Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio wins were called, but before her victories in Illinois and Missouri.

Vox transcribes:

Oh, thank you so much! Thank you! Thank you all so very much.

Well, I'll tell you, this is another Super Tuesday for our campaign.

Thank you, Florida, thank you, North Carolina, thank you, Ohio. We know we will add to our delegate lead to roughly 300, with over two million more votes nationwide. We are moving closer to securing the Democratic Party nomination and closer to winning this election in November.

And our supporters across the country, our campaign has won more votes than any other candidate, Democrat or Republican. And I want to congratulate Senator Sanders for the vigorous campaign he's waging.

Now today, all of you in the states where contests were held voted to break down the barriers that hold us all back, so every one of us can share in the promise of America. You voted. You voted for our tomorrow to be better than our yesterday. Tomorrow where all of us do our part and everyone has a chance to live up to his or her god given potential. Because that's how America can live up to its potential too.

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March 16, 2016

‘You’re a Trickle-Down Media Whore!’: Sam Bee’s Panel with Trump Supporters Was Absolutely Bonkers

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/youre-a-trickle-down-media-whore-sam-bees-panel-with-trump-supporters-was-absolutely-bonkers/

By Ken Meyer

On the latest episode of Full Frontal, Samantha Bee presented an interview she did with Donald Trump‘s supporters as she tried to figure out why so many love the man despite his parade of controversies.

Moving past the “racist thug” supporters that have marred recent Trump rallies with contention, Bee’s panel was a group of bipartisan, college-educated, and multi-ethnic people all bound by support for The Donald. As the panel turned its ire against the mainstream media, Bee explained that it is simply impossible for media to ignore Trump’s rhetoric encouraging violence against protestors and incendiary proposals like banning Muslims (“temporarily!” the panel shouted back to clarify).



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