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In reply to the discussion: Caroline Kennedy Says She Will Back Hillary Clinton, Warren camp says NY Post article... [View all]wyldwolf
(43,891 posts)63. haha but C'mon. You live in an echo chamber, in the overwhelming minority on the left


Hillary Clinton doesnt have a problem with liberals. Not hardly.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has said repeatedly that she won't run for president in 2016, and yet the idea persists: That Hillary Clinton could find herself vulnerable to a more liberal primary opponent.
The problem? Almost all of the most recent data suggests that Clinton doesn't have any real problems on her left flank. Indeed, she's actually stronger with liberals than she is with more moderate Democrats. And very, very few liberals have anything but nice things to say about her.
To wit:
* A new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows that when voters are asked whether they would prefer Clinton, a more liberal alternative or a more conservative one, about twice as many non-Clinton voters say they prefer the more conservative one (20 percent) to the more liberal one (11 percent).
* A Washington Post/ABC News poll this month showed Clinton taking a bigger share of the vote in the 2016 primary among self-described liberals (72 percent) than among moderate and conservative Democrats (60 percent).
* The same poll shows 18 percent of moderate Democrats don't want Clinton to run. Just 6 percent of liberal Democrats agree.

* The WaPo-ABC poll also shows liberal Democrats approve of Clinton's tenure at the State Department by a margin of 96-1, while moderate Democrats approve of it 84-12. Sixty-seven percent of liberals strongly approve of Clinton's performance, nearly 9 in 10 say she is a strong leader, and only slightly fewer say she's honest and trustworthy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/16/hillary-clinton-doesnt-have-a-problem-with-liberals-not-hardly/
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Caroline Kennedy Says She Will Back Hillary Clinton, Warren camp says NY Post article... [View all]
wyldwolf
Aug 2014
OP
That can't be the end! We want her to run even though see said she won't! She used the wrong word!
snooper2
Aug 2014
#4
Okay, I'll bite - what makes Elizabeth Warren more qualified than Hillary Clinton?
George II
Aug 2014
#23
Nah...it basically was a rhetorical question since there really is no answer.
George II
Aug 2014
#57
Actually, I'm having trouble writing an answer short enough to fit on DU. Taking a little
JDPriestly
Aug 2014
#89
and then you divert from the question again and write another anti-clinton diatribe
wyldwolf
Aug 2014
#104
Rather a one-sided conversation. I have written three posts answering your question.
JDPriestly
Aug 2014
#111
you've written three long diatribes about Clinton, then some touchy feely fanboy Warren stuff
wyldwolf
Aug 2014
#112
If your only reason for supporting someone is they make you warm and tingly inside
wyldwolf
Aug 2014
#141
You're STILL avoiding the question! LOL! And now you're dragging Obama into it.
wyldwolf
Aug 2014
#116
What did Obama or Clinton or Hillary or George W. Bush do legislatively before
JDPriestly
Aug 2014
#120
Elizabeth Warren knows that it was fabricated, and she told her press secretary.
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#17
i wish people would stop smearing Elizabeth Warren by associating her with racist scum like Klein
JI7
Aug 2014
#5
haha but C'mon. You live in an echo chamber, in the overwhelming minority on the left
wyldwolf
Aug 2014
#63
After Presidents Bush and Reagan, you're saying that Clinton pushed the country to the right?
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#67
I guess you never heard of George McGovern. Or maybe he wasn't enough of a progressive
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#79
Other than a few particular issues, like gay rights, the country isn't more liberal and progressive.
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#84
Don't underestimate the political right. The Gerrymandering is a huge thing and Nate Silver
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#88
If this was in the NY Post, why are the two references, links, from the NY Times and Boston Globe?
George II
Aug 2014
#22
So you would like to rebuke the Buy America she stood for while she was on the board of Walmart?
Thinkingabout
Aug 2014
#102
So you would rather shutter the doors, I don't see your point, how many Americans did it help for
Thinkingabout
Aug 2014
#124
Hillary was a push on Buy America, she is not there any more, Walmart is now getting their products
Thinkingabout
Aug 2014
#127
I would hope the American worker would have someone on their side, guess it is not
Thinkingabout
Aug 2014
#130
She will not have to do anything. She is blowing everyone away at this point.
stevenleser
Aug 2014
#108
i agree - it is highly unlikely that Sen. Warren will run - it is time to stop paying games and
Douglas Carpenter
Aug 2014
#55