Elections Democratic Road to 2016 Primary Thread

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Marylanders Don

 

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O'Malley's long-shot bid gets complicated start

Martin O

 

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Sanders wants to debate Republicans

Bernie Sanders on Sunday called for a more robust debate schedule beginning this summer.
The Vermont senator, challenging front-runner Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, also proposed on NBC’s “Meet the Press” some debates with Republican White House hopefuls.
“We need a lot more debates in this campaign,” Sanders said. “I hope very much that we can begin with the Democratic candidate debates as early as July and have some Republicans in those debates as well.”
The Democratic National Committee earlier this month announced that it will hold six sanctioned debates beginning this fall. The Republican National Committee, dealing with a significantly larger 2016 GOP field without a clear front-runner, has scheduled at least nine debates, the first in early August.

It'd be funny to have an primary debate hosting both republicans and dems. Obviously Sanders is crazy to think that would happen but its a cool proposal.

 

[ShoelessRye]

Lincoln Chafee was once a Republican. Webb might have been one as well at one time. And then Clinton is Repub as all hell on FP...

 

[Diamond Jim]

Lincoln Chafee was once a Republican. Webb might have been one as well at one time. And then Clinton is Repub as all hell on FP...

Webb was Reagan's secretary of the navy.

 

[ShoelessRye]

^Right. But I'm not sure that would make him a Republican per se. More than likely though, he would have fit in the GOP of the 1980's.

 

[punkmother]

damn. not a josiah bartlett in the bunch.

 

[Makani]

Obama's O'Malley joke at the Correspondent's Dinner was a killer, I'm pretty sure most people don't know him from a hole in the wall. He lost his chance to solidify himself left of Hillary, now he has to wriggle in between her and Sanders.

 

[SpidermanISGOAT]

Elizabeth warren is not to be trusted. She already said Israel is like Nazi Germany, attacked Workers movements by opposing free trade and attacked the financial system. She is against the American dream and against true workers movements.

 

[Gandhi]

Elizabeth warren is not to be trusted. She already said Israel is like Nazi Germany. She is a Hitler in sheeps clothing and should be silenced in the Senate.

0/10 for trolling

 

[SpidermanISGOAT]

Its not a troll. I dont like her and she is probably anti Semitic. She always attacks Jews and Israel and never attacks the Muslim terrorist or Palestinians.

 

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Top pro-Elizabeth Warren group says she

 

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Hillary Clinton unfavorable numbers highest in 14 years

Hillary Clinton is seeing her highest unfavorability ratings in 14 years, according to the latest CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday.
Just 46 percent said they view the Democratic presidential front-runner favorably, compared to 50 percent who said they have an unfavorable view. In the preceding April survey, Clinton polled with 53 percent favorable, compared to 44 percent unfavorable.
Despite holding a commanding lead among declared and potential Democratic opponents, the public has not viewed Clinton this unfavorably since March 2001, when the former first lady was in her third month as a New York senator. Just 44 percent said they had a favorable view of Clinton at that time, with 53 percent seeing her in an unfavorable light.

With so much hedged on one candidate, I'd be nervous. Hillary has everything on paper to win the GE but I think she just doesn't resonate with people the more and more she's put in the spotlight. The debates are going to be bad unless the shots at her are interpreted as sexist.

 

[Makani]

Hard to tell what that means. I would consider myself having an unfavorable view of Clinton, but I would still vote for her in a GE. It is also hard to tell if Sanders is having any effect, hurting her by contrast with the far left. Either way, I've always been worried about this election and the shallow field after Hillary, but I still think she should win.

 

[ShoelessRye]

Hillary Clinton unfavorable numbers highest in 14 years



With so much hedged on one candidate, I'd be nervous. Hillary has everything on paper to win the GE but I think she just doesn't resonate with people the more and more she's put in the spotlight. The debates are going to be bad unless the shots at her are interpreted as sexist.

Or she's virtually the only candidate being attacked at the moment by the whole of the GOP machine with congressional political stunt witch hunts and virtually every one of the 15 or so declared or undeclared GOP Presidential candidates taking pot shots at her every chance they get. All the while she's running a very low key roll out right now and virtually firing no shots in return. I'm not sure her strategy of freezing out the MSM is smart though as it causes them to be more pissed at her and carry more GOP water on their coverage to stick it to her. Play nice with MSM or not, they've always had an axe to grind with her and her coverage would always be negative.

 

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Hillary Clinton is Too Liberal for Bill Clinton

The biggest irony of the 2016 campaign is Hillary Clinton running as the sort of liberal Bill Clinton once ran against. The Democratic party has moved too far left to accept the former president, or at least the version of Bill Clinton that dominated Democratic politics back in the 1990s.
The overarching project of his political career was to pull the party back toward the center. Barney Frank recalls, while Clinton was in office, getting no response to a letter he'd sent to "The Democratic President of the United States" because the post office classified it as "addressee unknown." Within a few years of Clinton's reign, politicians such as Paul Wellstone and Howard Dean began to refer to themselves as representatives of the "Democratic wing" of the Democratic Party.
To succeed today, Hillary Clinton

 

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Hillary Clinton Is Alone at the Top of Democratic 2016 Hill Endorsements

Hillary Clinton has racked up a slew of congressional endorsements in her presidential bid. Her rivals either can't compete on the Hill or are only doing so quietly.

Clinton's endorsement tally already stands at triple digits

 

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Top pro-Elizabeth Warren group says she

 

[Magooglie]

Bernie should court Warren to be his running mate.

 

[ShoelessRye]

^No way. If something crazy happened and Sanders was the Dem nominee he'd desperately need some FP gravitas on the ticket. He fails the Commander-in-Chief eye test rather glaringly.

Also telling that none of sanders progressive wing Dems have endorsed him yet. I guess it's because Clinton's play for keeps and hold grudges and the progressive wing wants to be able to at least have a spot at the table with a President Hillary.