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Hillary Clinton

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LAS14

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Sat Apr 23, 2016, 06:57 AM Apr 2016

The mystery of Clinton/Sanders online [View all]

...although this article points out that it goes beyond online. I joined Reddit with the purpose of increasing the Hillary presence. It's chaos (a half dozen mostly defunct Hillary sub-reddits, but her presence in "Politics" is less than in GDP. Interestingly, none of her sub-redits showed up in the introductory list. One Bernie did. I had to search. I'm going to post once every few days in "Politics," but not bother to get involved with the Hillary groups.

Hillary Clinton won big in New York on Tuesday, taking a 16-point lead statewide over opponent Bernie Sanders and receiving 63 percent of votes in New York City alone—but walking around the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn ahead of the primary, you wouldn’t think so. Throughout the city, public support for Sanders seems to far outweigh that for Clinton, with his campaign posters filling the windows of bars, cafes, and apartments—without a Clinton sign in sight. Lest this disparity be attributed to allegations of voter suppression, the phenomenon goes far beyond New York: Online, #feelthebern hashtags appear to drown out Clinton’s #ImWithHer rallying cry, and a larger number of vocal celebrities can be seen showing their support at Sanders rallies and online. With so many voters evidently backing Clinton on paper and in the polls, why is real-life public support for her is so muted?


http://www.complex.com/life/2016/04/hillary-clinton-supporters-in-secret
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