nygurl
nygurl's JournalNot to mention
that these polls, in combination with head-to-head Trump/Sanders polls are being used relentlessly by Sanders to support flipping Hillary's superdelegates, and to tout the lack of enthusiasm for her.
The additional problems and utter worthlessness of these polls are rarely addressed.
1. Each poll reflects a significant percentage of Sanders supporters who declare their support of Trump in Trump-Clinton polling, either in the heat of battle, or to intentionally skew the numbers against Hillary.
2. Hillary is still fighting a battle on two fronts, both of which are using the same ancient slurs and RW talking points.
3. Hillary has held back retaliating against Sanders to try to tone down the brawl.
4. The media relentlessly promotes Trump and Sanders, and ignores Hillary, or at best finds her unexciting.
Pollsters should responsibly address all of these issues, and so should pundits. If they don't do it soon I'll be forced to throw a chair at my teevee.
Took a walk on the dark side tonight
Posted a challenge to campaign-promulgated wildly exaggerated crowd size estimates in Washington Square. 27,000!! 48,000!!! (Which are, by the way, being reported as news on MSNBC.) Camera crews with ABC-TV estimated 6,500 in the park and 5,000 outside. Look at the shots -- many areas empty, for media or security, or filled with bushes.
For my efforts I got promoted to Brock sock puppet, and new Hillary poster as part-time campaign staff. On my way home I almost got run down by a phalanx of hooua-ing bike-riding boys leaving the rally.
I have a lingering creepy feeling, the same one that made me start posting. The deep misogyny, thinly-veiled violence (or not so thin: "DRAG HER!!!"
, the left's version of Trump fanatics. And their leader. I knew guys like Bernie many years ago, slick talkers with run-of-the-mill lefty views, angry, arrogant, unproductive, entitled. As ever, I am most surprised that all of this is not patently obvious to everyone, especially after the last two weeks. Go know.
An absolute must see. Hold your nose and watch BS too. Or read my nose. Warning: long
I was worried that Hillary would suffer because BS was getting the last word. Instead the contrast was stunning, on style, on content, on character. And without confrontational interviewing, Rachel gets these amazing answers:
BS admits he is actively lobbying super delegates. He admits what Devine told Greg Sargent at WaPo -- that they will lobby super delegates at the convention based on hypothetical head-to-head match-ups with Reeps even if he is behind in both pledged delegates and the popular vote. (I have rotten sox over those numbers, so unvetted by the press, so untouched by the Reeps who want him to win, so little touched by Hill who needs his voters.) When Rachel put up her now famous graphic of early and massive efforts in the south, BS under-the-bused Devine on the we-didn't-win-because-we-didn't-try meme by offering yet a third version of the story: Devine must have meant they didn't spend much on TV. (Let's see that FEC report.) And the 50-state plan he beat Hill up about earlier? Well, sometimes you have to be practical with your resources. On Trump's abortion abortion, BS answers Rachel by saying any stupid remark made by Trump becomes the story of the week, but "maybe, just maybe, we might want to have a serious discussion about the serious issues facing America." Like not women's health care, and the huge economic issues control over our bodies implies. And, finally, after boasting about the zillions he's raised he admits he hasn't given anything to the down ticket. Does he foresee a time when he will, asks Rachel, mentioning that Hill has been fund-raising both for the nomination and for the Democratic Party. We'll see, sez BS. A more brilliant understated mantrap interview I have rarely seen.
And to those Bros bemoaning the probable loss of their dream candidate, a pretty ordinary lefty, risking nothing, accomplishing little, living in grumbling comfort for 25 years in the very system he decries, now shown to be compromising his uncompromising values in his desperation to shove his pointy finger down our throats, I have this to say. I wish you could get a brain unpolluted by RW and BS poop your candidate knows damn well is poop. Just for long enough to listen to Hill's part of the evening. Thoughtful, focused, real, brilliant, wildly well-informed, complex, warm. Honest. And you want radical change? She's the most extremely politically radical candidate in the history of this country -- a woman. A woman president.
Profile Information
Member since: Mon Mar 28, 2016, 12:06 AMNumber of posts: 33
