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Discussion: U.S. Election 2016: Primary Season
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HRC will win PA by about 8% and MD by 19%.
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Yet Bernie has won my heart. He supports causes in which I have been personally involved for decades. I take great strength from his firm stance against the death penalty, (amazing!) his belief that Palestinians should have a place at the bargaining table, (unheard of!) his understanding that the prison system must transform its agenda from punishment to rehabilitation, his desire to treat immigrants as human beings, and of course by his grass roots funding and astonishing refusal to sell himself to the devil on Wall Street, or anywhere else for that matter. I am profoundly moved by this elder statesman, his compelling honesty, and his ability to engage young people.
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Spot on!
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Btw Weaver was the one to suggest to Bernie that he needed to go negative on Clinton. He needs to go
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He and Tad Devine are both huge losers. Had he had actual good campaign organizers, he could have been winning this thing. Instead, they've alienated so many Democrats out of him and all of his fundraising and drive had to come from the enthusiasm of his young base (which, granted, is actually really cool and the way the Redditor's got together to create donation drives was awesome). It's a high number but his campaign donor money could have been even higher if they could have found more ways to target different demographics as well.
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#LeaveItToWeaver
I think Jeff is great
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Emerson has a C+ rating, how are they usually accurate?
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Originally posted by Marvin
Emerson has a C+ rating, how are they usually accurate?
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I checked their polls ahead of some of the primaries we've had already and they were usually overestimating Hillary by at least 5 points, so idk either... But then again the website didnt' have data for all the primaries/caucauses so they might've been better at predicting the outcome for the rest. 
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Wow...so the Sanders campaign is actually coordinating a Convention fight no matter the outcome if I heard correctly from Jeff Weaver on CNN. This is messy.
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Wow...so the Sanders campaign is actually coordinating a Convention fight no matter the outcome if I heard correctly from Jeff Weaver on CNN. This is messy.
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They won't. It's a two person race, how can there be a contested convention?  Martin O'Malley isn't gonna be picking up any delegates.
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love this
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Originally posted by Orpheus
Wow...so the Sanders campaign is actually coordinating a Convention fight no matter the outcome if I heard correctly from Jeff Weaver on CNN. This is messy.
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Bernie sis... 
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What do people do with merchandise from candidates who lose? Like what happened to McCain stans, did they keep it?
Actually, better question: what happens to nominees' promo when they aren't even picked? I wonder what the fans will do with their Rubio merchandise?
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Some aspects of the debate over banking reform remain uncertain simply due to the complexity of managing Wall Street -- a responsibility shared by corporations, judges and federal agencies. At moments when the discussion became especially technical, it seemed that both Sanders and his interviewers didn't completely understand each other.
"It's not that he doesn't have policy knowledge," said Avik Roy, who has advised former GOP presidential candidates Rick Perry, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mitt Romney.
"As an economist, sure, I'd love to see him spell everything out," said Dean Baker, a director of the liberal Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington. "Did he give reasonable answers that gave people a reasonable idea of what he would do? Yeah. I didn't see any big scandal there."
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In an interview with me today, senior Sanders adviser Tad Devine left no doubt: Not only will Bernie Sanders support Clinton if she is the nominee; he will also do everything possible to make sure the next president is a Democrat, even if it isn’t Bernie Sanders.
“Bernie has said he’s going to support the nominee, and I’m sure he’ll do everything to make sure that the next president is a Democrat,” Devine told me. “We believe Bernie will be the nominee, and we hope Clinton will give us the same kind of vigorous endorsement.”
“But that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t be energetic and vigorous and work as hard as he possibly could” for the Dem nominee if it is Clinton, Devine said. “He worked hard for Obama twice.”
“Bernie understands that having someone like Trump or Cruz become president of the United States would be destructive to the future of this nation,” Devine continued. “There’s no way that he’s going to be in any way associated with anything that allows that to occur.”
Devine said, however, that “we think the best way to make sure that doesn’t happen is to have the strongest Democratic nominee,” pointing out that some polls have shown Sanders stronger in a general election against GOP candidates than Clinton is. Devine added that having a Dem nominee with Clinton’s negatives could be “catastrophic.”
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Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, an enthusiastic fan of Pope Francis's work, plans to step off the campaign trail next week to speak at a conference hosted by the Vatican on social, economic and environmental issues.
The senator from Vermont is planning to head to Rome immediately after a high-profile debate scheduled here with Hillary Clinton on April 14. He'll speak at the gathering hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Sanders said.
“I am grateful to the Vatican for inviting me to talk about an issue that is very dear to my heart, which is how we create a moral economy that works for all of the people rather than just the top one percent,” Sanders said in an interview. “I will also in my remarks be addressing the planetary crisis of climate change and the moral imperative to make sure we leave this planet in a way that is healthy and habitable for future generations.”
Sanders, who would be the nation’s first Jewish president, often references Francis on the campaign trail, praising his leadership on economic and environmental issues. Sanders said he believes he will be the only American public official speaking at the gathering.
“I think the Vatican has been aware of the fact that, in many respects, the pope’s views and my views are very much related,” Sanders said. “He has talked in an almost unprecedented way about the need to address income and wealth inequality, poverty and to combat the greed that we’re seeing all over this world, which is doing so much harm to so many people. … For me, it is an extraordinary honor to receive this invitation.”
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WaPo is serving the good good today!
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Originally posted by LuLuDrops
What do people do with merchandise from candidates who lose? Like what happened to McCain stans, did they keep it?
Actually, better question: what happens to nominees' promo when they aren't even picked? I wonder what the fans will do with their Rubio merchandise?
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I see a ton of people who still proudly wear their McCain Palin bumper stickers. 
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I see a ton of people who still proudly wear their McCain Palin bumper stickers. |
This person posted an embroidered pillow with a certain candidate and a bird and wonder if they'll throw it away or cry  on it if the candidate doesn't go.
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This person posted a embroidered pillow with a certain candidate and a bird and wonder if they'll throw it away or cry on it if the candidate doesn't go. |
I mean, I have a friend that got a huge tattoo of Bernie on their left shoulder so.
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I mean, I have a friend that got a huge tattoo of Bernie on their left shoulder so. |
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Washington (CNN) - There has long been an air of conspiracy surrounding theories of alien life, and the head of Hillary Clinton's campaign said Thursday it's time to do away with the secrecy.
CNN's Jake Tapper pulled aside Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, who was a guest on "The Lead," to talk aliens.
"The U.S. government could do a much better job in answering the quite legitimate questions that people have about what's going on with unidentified aerial phenomena," Podesta said.
Podesta has made his interest in the possibility of alien life and conspiratorial leanings toward Area 51 well known. During his time serving in the Obama administration, Podesta tweeted, "Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstilloutthere cc: @NYTimesDowd."
In regard to Area 51, Podesta echoed Clinton's call, saying, "What I've talked to the secretary about, and what she's said now in public, is that if she's elected president, when she gets into office, she'll ask for as many records as the United States federal government has to be declassified, and I think that's a commitment that she intends to keep and that I intend to hold her to."
Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, said the 42nd president once "asked for some information about some of these things, and in particular, some information about what was going on at Area 51."
Asked if there is evidence of alien life, Podesta said, "That's for the public to judge once they've seen all the evidence that the U.S. government has."
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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/07/po...ufo/index.html
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Originally posted by LuLuDrops
This person posted an embroidered pillow with a certain candidate and a bird and wonder if they'll throw it away or cry on it if the candidate doesn't go. |
Probably the same reaction if it were someone that has an embroidered pillow with a certain candidate and a bulky red arrow pointing to the right, if their candidate doesn't "go". People eventually get over things.
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Originally posted by heckinglovato
Probably the same reaction if it were someone that has an embroidered pillow with a certain candidate and a bulky red arrow pointing to the right, if their candidate doesn't "go". People eventually get over things.
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I wouldn't keep it, too painful 
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