Reports from the ground in CA

My wife did some voter registration today and then we spent the day out and about, her wearing her hat with Bernie Sanders stickers on it.

VERY interesting stuff.

#1 question asked: Do you think he can still win? Answer: Well, if we show up and vote him.. HELL YEAH!

#2 observation: The VAST majority of people who approached us excited about the Bernie sticker on her hat.. not millennials. Average age was well 50+. My wife is in her early 40s and the women she was paired with for canvasing was in her 60s. Yeah, the millennials are the no brainers, but I was shocked at the number of people you would be led to believe are "Clinton Voters" coming up to us and saying "Love the hat" who thumbs uping the Bernie sticker.

#3 observation: Not a SINGLE HRC person trying to register voters or doing any type of outreach. Not a single sticker, bumper sticker, yard sign.. NOTHING. But, to me the "surprise" (not really) was that they are making NO EFFORT at all to register voters.

If they REALLY cared about down ticket elections, wouldn't that be step 1???

In short, Bernie's support in California is wide and deep and yes, he has a path to victory... people just need to actually show up and vote.

Just had a fascinating call with a voter in Rochester

I am doing some calls for Bernie today and spoke with a voter in Rochester who was telling me that the local board of elections had REFUSED to send out reminder cards for today's primary. He explained that they have more primaries coming in September and they will be sending out the reminders for those, but they didn't send them out for today.

He told me how he has been telling all of his friends to get out and vote for Bernie and that a lot of them didn't know their polling place, etc.

WOW.

Why didn't Bernie bring up the Bankruptcy bill as an example of money influencing her decisions?

Just not true

The VAST majority of the bush tax cuts are permanent and plz dont try to sell me on a 39.6% top tax rate.... that is insanely low.


And sorry.. but Obama HAD the votes to get the public option via reconciliation... he only needed 50 votes and they had them.. SANDERS was leading that coalition... but the White House dropped the public option from ita plan and sold us out.

They didnt NEED lieberman at that point.

And IF the democrats hold power in 2010... as they would have if Obama kept the public option you REALLY think the Supreme Court would strike it down??? They would be handing the democrats 2012 and beyond if they pulled that... the only reason it was close is bc the aca remains unpopular. If they struck it down... they poke the beast and we can go after single payer again.. like MOST PEOPLE WANT. The ACA survived bc it is a republican plan... its the plan bob dole ran on... its the plan the heritage foundation came up with... it was never in REAL danger from the supreme court. Its the plan THEY want... they win either way... they get to use its unpopularity against democrats.. but if it stays.. so what.. insurance companies, hospitals, drug companies.. they ate all seeing record profits.

Wake up and smell the cat food.

Obama is the best Republican president since Eisenhower.

Clinton Agrees to Debate Sanders in NY for 225K

So it is written.. so it shall be done.

http://thegoodlordabove.com/articles/details/211

Release the transcripts, Clinton.. or else...

It's going to happen ANYWAY.

That's the funny thing about this. Video/transcripts of those speeches exist and more people than JUST CLINTON have them.

However, it is not in Goldman's best interest to release it them right now, because the last thing they want is President Sanders and they know that if they allow this out there, he could easily defeat her.

However, should the day come that their release might benefit them... they will find their way into the public. So, say it is the general election and there is a candidate on the other side who might serve than even better than the Clinton's have.. suddenly video of the speeches will leak.

Don't worry, top brass at Goldman will remain clean and it will blamed on some 1st year intern in the back row, just incase it fails, they don't want to sour the milk.. it will see the light of day.

So, Hillary, eat your humble pie now before it gets thrown in your face.

If he knew then what he knows now....

May Bernie have chosen 3rd party route over running in a broken party?

I don't think he realized the number of contributors, the amount of money he would raise or the enthusiasm he would gain. The hardest thing about running 3rd party is getting on the ballot in all 50 states. Looking back.. I believe he could have done it.

So if this winds up being Clinton vs Trump... it is absolutely RIPE for a 3rd party candidate b/c you would have two people that people have negative perceptions of on the major tickets.

He can't and won't do it anymore, as he has said he would not... but I can't help but think... what if he started there... Just having his rallies, spreading his message and letting the grass roots do the work for him.

I think he would have had a much easier path.

The second place finisher in the GOP primary got more votes than the winner in the Democratic?

Very sad state of affairs what Clinton has done to this party.

Unless the exit polls are wrong.. I don't think Sanders wins Ohio

According to CNN exit polls 54% of the voters were age 50 and over and Clinton won that demographic 60%+ (The only demo she won)

Sooo, unless there is a surprise number of younger people who showed up.. that exit poll doesn't look good right now.

God shows Bernie's new ad