Did you hear Crystal Ball's rant on the Cycle asking Hillary not to run?

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335. Their work is based on past results. Their work is not relevant to a time of as much

discontent and inequity as we have today. Facts are wonderful, but the facts on which the website is based are from a time different from today, a time that is not the present.

Fast Food workers are striking and organizing across the country. Raising the minimum wage and protecting Social Security and the safety net and getting our trade deficit and finances into balance are now in the forefront. Those are the issues that matter.

The website correctly reflects what people have said in the past about issues that were decisive in the past. While the website reflects where people would be viewed if the decisive issues today were the same as they were in the past, I think that today, some issues may decide the next election that were not considered in the creation of the website. Thus the website is not completely wrong about where the candidates stood in the past in relation to the issues it considers but may not reflect where candidates stand on the issues that are pressing today.

The website does not reflect the most prevalent opinions of liberals and people outside of the D.C. area about trade, for example. Nor does it reflect how we think about the issues of getting Wall Street under control.