Jaw dropping: Sanders in statistical dead heat with Clinton in ARKANSAS!!

[Divernan]

46. HRC spoke at the big annual Dem. dinner in Arkansas July18th

That apparently wasn't enough to earn her the loyalty of the rank-and-file Dems. If you may recall, the 2015 annual Netroots Nation meeting was held in Phoenix AZ from July 16th-19th. Hillary was invited, months in advance to participate in the candidates' forum the afternoon of July 18th. O'Malley and Sanders had accepted. Regrets from HRC. Elizabeth Warren was speaking at NN also.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is skipping a gathering of politically active progressives next month that would have put her on the same stage with her Democratic challengers -- and likely set up unwelcome comparisons with liberal heroine Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06/24/clinton-skipping-progressive-netroots-nation-gathering/

The Arkansas Democratic Party's annual meeting/fundraising Jefferson Day dinner was scheduled for July 18th at the Verizon Center in Little Rock. Obviously, as any politically sentient being knows, the guest speaker for the Arkansas Dems main fundraiser dinner would have been arranged many months in advance. Annual meetings like this are scheduled/venues booked/guest speakers arranged up to a year in advance.

However it wasn't until June 10, only 40 days in advance - that the Arkansas Democratic party ecstatically announced that former first lady Hillary Clinton would be the guest speaker. http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/06/10/hillary-clinton-to-headline-arkansas-dems-2015-jefferson-jackson-dinner/

Sanders, O'Malley, even Elizabeth Warren all made it to the Netroots Nation gathering in Phoenix AZ, July 16th-19th. Sanders, O'Malley & Clinton all attended a Dem. event in Iowa the day before on July 17th. Even flying coach, Sanders had no problem getting from one event to the other. Surely Hillary, whose private jet usage is second to none, could easily have attended both the Netroots Nation panel in the afternoon of July 18 and jetted in 2.75 hours of luxurious comfort from Phoenix to nearby Little Rock for the Dem. dinner.

It would make a perfect sub-plot for VEEP, or for campaign manager, Eli Gold's (The Good Wife) character to deal with. "Oh, Jesus! The last thing we need is to have Hillary compared to Elizabeth. And Obama wiped the floor with her at the Netroots Nation candidates forum in 2007! Quick! Find another event on the same day that we can book our candidate for and then claim a conflict of interest.
Those Netroots people are too well-informed and too progressive to ever endorse Hillary anyway."