*HILLARY GROUP* Here's the one number that proves Bernie Sanders isn't a threat to Hillary Clinton

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38. Politico: "Bernie who? Why the Clinton campaign isn’t sweating the Sanders surge."

By Gabriel Debenedetti 7/3/15 4:19 PM EDT Updated 7/5/15 3:09 PM EDT


Bernie Sanders is winning a third of the vote in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to the latest polls. Nearly 10,000 people showed up at his Wisconsin rally this week. Roughly 250,000 small donors have contributed to his campaign.

At Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn HQ, it’s as if they’ve never heard of him.

The Clinton campaign is reading straight from the front-runner’s playbook when dealing with the socialist Vermont senator. Her staff insists it’s taking Sanders’ polling bump seriously while showing no signs of changing its long-charted course. There are no new plans to attack Sanders, no alterations of the forthcoming policy rollouts that will dot the summer calendar, and no expected leftward sprints to match him policy-for-policy. She doesn’t even mention his name on the campaign trail.

Instead, the former secretary of state’s political operation is making a show of its organizational muscle and safeguarding its position beyond the early-voting states. Far from sweating over reports of standing-room-only crowds at the Vermonter’s events, the Clinton campaign is breathing a quiet sigh of relief that it’s Sanders — and not a potentially more viable primary opponent like Elizabeth Warren — nipping at its heels this summer. The senator’s name pops up in conversations at Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters, but he’s not the topic of the day, week or month — not even in the candidate’s chats with donors, who are keeping a close tab on the state of play.

“No one’s hair is on fire about him,” explained Maria Cardona, a national Democratic strategist who remains in close touch with the Clinton camp after working for Hillary’s 2008 campaign. “Not even the nose hairs. Nothing.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/bernie-who-119721.html#ixzz3f3dpvq9h

This is why I don't feel the need to combat all the fantastical headlines and accusations of "Fear" by the BS crowd. I don't blame people who want to "set the record straight", but it's like arguing with two year olds, and I figure....what's the point?

This is why I want HRC's media surrogates to just Cool It! BS is no threat. Speak about him in glowing terms if you must, but no need to attack.

If we've learned anything, it's the ugliness of some of his most ardent supporters, and they're not winning anyone over with that. They are, in fact, his greatest liability. The groups they need to buy in feel more alienated than ever from BS, and it has less to do with him, and more to do with his so-called "supporters".