Newest PPP poll out today has Hillary gaining momentum on all Dem candidates.

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67. Yeah. It's noticeable.

I regret that my favorite riff on the whole false equivalence thing applies here. It's like comparing a brick to a grain of aquarium gravel and saying they're both the same because they both happen to be hard. Some Hillary supporters may have thrown some spitballs against Bernie Sanders, but it hardly compares to the avalanche of brickbats and verbal napalm coming at Hillary from the other camp AND unfortunately the personal attacks that are aimed at some Hillary supporters, as well. I've caught some of it myself.

You're not the only one who's worried about the divisiveness leading us irrevocably toward another CON in the White House, olegramps. Don't know how old you are, but I'm 62 and I still remember when the Gene McCarthy people were RABID against Hubert Humphrey - who wound up being the Dem nominee against Richard Nixon in 1968. They refused to play ball. They refused to compromise. Dumped all over Humphrey - YES he wasn't perfect either and he was too tied to LBJ and Vietnam, as Johnson's Vice President. He WASN'T perfect. I didn't think so either. But even back then when I was so much younger I still understood what was at stake and what we had to do. Seemed like a no-brainer. Like it or not, HE was what we HAD - to go into the final round, and keep the White House in Democratic hands. Unfortunately, the McCarthyites refused to unite and rally behind Humphrey because he wasn't THEIRS. Went home and stayed there and pouted all the way through Election Day.

And guess who won.

I kept wondering - about the McCarthy diehards - WAS IT WORTH IT? SERIOUSLY???????????? Happy NOW?????????