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Sancho

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3. I realize this is unpopular with the "Hillary Haters"...
Thu May 14, 2015, 06:58 AM
May 2015

and we never know what will happen a year from now (remember Edwards?), but here in Florida and in most of the South, Hillary is much more popular with independents, women, and Hispanics than every other current candidate.

Bernie doesn't resonate with most of my friends and neighbors, and on the college campus, women are VERY interested in a candidate who would reverse years of attacks on women's rights.

In Florida, about 25% were born in another country. Everyone (including the Christian right) here has positive reactions to the Clinton Foundation, businesses respect the Clinton's international experience, and internationals believe that Obama was way too slow and ineffective to tackle immigration.

I'm not surprised about Kentucky, and I suspect the same would be true in the Carolina's and Georgia. Women and under 50s will go for Hillary over any crazy repub. Farmers and businesses who hire immigrants also are fed up with the GOP. Minority voters will not vote for the Rand Paul extremists, and than includes Lindsey, Jeb, etc.

Bernie may be popular in the liberal NE, but he has almost no carry-over with the independents in the South in my observation. Neither Bernie nor Warren have the $'s to run a campaign in expensive purple states like Florida.

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