Hillary is more likely to take the country to war than Trump.

She is more at the interventionist end of the spectrum...Iraq war, regime change in Libya, etc., etc.

Trump is more cautious and non-interventionist. He has called both G.W. Bush and Hillary Clinton stupid for the war in Iraq.

Something to think about, perhaps.

Trump is too the left of Hillary on some issues

Trade and and not getting into stupid wars/ regime change come to mind. Also he will cite her ties to Wall Street whereas he is outside the political establishment.

How will Clinton respond to such attacks in a debate, should she win the nomination?

Governor Chris Christie has endorsed Trump

And so it begins...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/26/politics/chris-christie-endorses-donald-trump/index.html

It's very likely if Hillary is the nominee she will lose to Trump.

I have posted the reasons numerous times....her foreign policy failures, the fact that she's been bought, she's sold workers short on trade deals, and everything else Trump can use against her we all know all too well. He'll also say she's become "socialist" like Sanders. Biggest reason is she's establishment, and the establishment will lose this election.

With Sanders all Trump has to use against him really is "he's a socialist" and that won't go far. Not farther than the very same charge he'll hurl at Hillary. But here's the big difference: Sanders has always stood up for what he's believes, and he's not part of the establishment. He's an independent from outside the established two-party system like Trump. And only an Independent can defeat Trump.

Turnout won't save us if Hillary is the nominee. The turnout will all be on the Trump side. The voters are angry, and both Sanders and Trump channel that anger (one by turning anger into hope, the other by inflaming the anger). Hillary is exactly what the people who will be motivated to vote don't want. Sure, she will go full on negative in a way we've never seen (her campaign has said this is her strategy). Nothing positive to run on, only fear of Trump...the guy who promises the people he will "make America great again," and with nothing else to offer on the other side, the voters will believe him.

An establishment candidate like Hillary running a negative campaign in a change election (the Clinton campaign has said that is their strategy) won't work in this election. It just won't work. But it's the only viable strategy they have against Trump.

Sanders will run on trust, populism (a better kind than Trump's), integrity, and inspire the people to stand up so that real change, hard change can really happen. He can do that because he's the real deal, and voters trust him. That's the only way Trump can be defeated: by restoring hope, not fear.

NYT to Hillary: "It is the public, not the candidate, who decides how much disclosure is enough"

The New York Times editorial board, a body that endorsed Hillary Clinton earlier this year, on Thursday called on the presidential candidate to release transcripts from her paid speeches to Wall Street and banking groups.

Clinton has so far not heeded calls by progressive and conservative groups who have demanded that the former secretary of state release transcripts from speeches she gave to banks in 2013 and 2014. And Clinton's aides have suggested that she is held to a different standard than other candidates, as evidenced by calls for her to release transcripts.

"Voters have every right to know what Mrs. Clinton told these groups," writes the editorial board. "By refusing to release them all, especially the bank speeches, Mrs. Clinton fuels speculation about why she's stonewalling."

The board adds, "Public interest in these speeches is legitimate, and it is the public -- not the candidate -- who decides how much disclosure is enough. By stonewalling on these transcripts Mrs. Clinton plays into the hands of those who say she's not trustworthy and makes her own rules. Most important, she is damaging her credibility among Democrats who are begging her to show them that she'd run an accountable and transparent White House."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/25/politics/new-york-times-hillary-clinton-transcripts-release/index.html

Sanders Press Release: "Hillary Clinton resorted to dog whistle politics and dehumanizing language."

PRESS RELEASE
Sanders Voted for 1994 Crime Bill to Support Assault Weapons Ban, Violence Against Women Provisions
FEBRUARY 25, 2016

FLINT, Mich. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager on Thursday reiterated the senator’s reasoning for voting in favor of the Clinton administration’s 1994 Crime Bill despite serious reservations. The House version of the bill included a ban on semi-automatic assault weapons. Sanders had supported the ban since 1988. The conference committee version included not only the assault weapons ban but also the Violence Against Women Act provisions. Sanders supported these efforts to protect women.

In Sanders’ statement at the time, he criticized the mass incarceration and death penalty provisions in the bill, saying:

“…it is also my view that through the neglect of our Government and through a grossly irrational set of priorities, we are dooming tens of millions of young people to a future of bitterness, misery, hopelessness, drugs, crime, and violence.

And Mr. Speaker, all the jails in the world, and we already imprison more people per capita than any other country, and all of the executions in the world, will not make that situation right. We can either educate or electrocute. We can create meaningful jobs, rebuilding our society, or we can build more jails.

Mr. Speaker, let us create a society of hope and compassion, not one of hate and vengeance.”

During consideration of the bill, Sanders voted six times to weaken or eliminate the death penalty provisions and voted separately against creating new mandatory minimums. Then-First Lady Hillary Clinton spoke strongly in favor of increased incarceration, labeling at risk youth as “super-predators” who had to be “brought to heel.”

“When this so-called crime bill was being considered, Bernie Sanders criticized its harsh incarceration and death penalty provisions,” said Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager. “Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, resorted to dog whistle politics and dehumanizing language. Bernie was right then and he’s right now. We need to invest in those communities that have been neglected in this country. Poor communities – more often than not, communities of color – deserve the same opportunities and education that other communities have. Bernie Sanders has always known jails and incarceration are not the answer. Nor is heated rhetoric against young people of any race. You can’t throw vulnerable people under the bus just because it’s politically expedient.”

https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-voted-for-1994-crime-bill-to-support-assault-weapons-ban-violence-against-women-provisions/

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Hillary Clinton's GE Campaign Strategy Revealed: "Be afraid, be very afraid."

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There was a scenario, which looks more like a fantasy, in which Clinton was a movement. Women in their twenties, thirties, and forties would rally to her the way black Americans rallied to Obama; she would run on her own mantle of change.

In reality, nobody is that excited about Hillary Clinton, and young voters, women and men — the foot soldiers of any Democratic Party movement — aren’t coming around. She lost a resounding 82% of voters under 30 in Nevada. Her campaign now rests on the hope that voters of color like her well enough, if nowhere near as much as they like Obama. And that means that when she faces a Republican, she will have to destroy him — something the people who will be doing the destroying acknowledged when I asked them earlier this month.

“The slogan is ‘Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid,’” said Paul Begala, who is an adviser to the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/be-afraid#.icm9OxLzG6

So much for the politics of hope...

Three lines of attack Trump will use against Clinton (you might not have considered all of these)

"I'm not bought. I don't take money from anybody, she's taken millions from all sorts of special interest groups. Nobody pays me to say or do anything. We're going to make American great again!"

"We are going to be so tough on trade. So tough. I am the toughest on trade. She hasn't been tough. We're going to make America great again, so great!

"G.W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, they all got us into the stupidest war. Stupid. And we are still seeing the results of that now. It's just gotten worse and worse with Obama and she was his SOS. It's sad, so sad. She is the worst on foreign policy ever. I will be the best and not do stupid things. And you know what, I'll keep America safe too and make us great again.

So...CNN is reporting Trump won the Latino vote in Nevada.

I heard earlier 17% of Latinos are Republican, and apparently the Republican Latinos are breaking for Trump like all the rest.

What does this mean for progressives/democrats? I have no idea. Just thought it was notable.

Strange is the world in which we live...