Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon Is Bernie Sanders’ Colleagues
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/02/hillary-clinton-al-franken-friendshipClinton's final pitch to New Hampshire voters is as much about the people she surrounds herself with as it is the former secretary of state herself. On Friday, four woman senators were there to co-opt Bernie Sanders by arguing that the "revolution" America needs is electing the first woman. Stefany Shaheen, daughter of the New Hampshire senator, warmed up the crowd in Portsmouth by name-dropping celebrity backers Lena Dunham, Gloria Steinem, Abby Wambachproof she's not only experienced, but maybe cool. Franken was there to follow-up on a subject of intense debate over the last weekwhat it means to be a progressive.
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"Sen. Shaheen, my colleague, and I, like the only other [Senate] Democrats who have endorsed in this race, have endorsed Hillary Clinton for a reason," he said. "Because this is serious stuff. This is serious stuff. This is Sherrod Brown. This is Cory Booker. This is Tammy Baldwin. We are progressives. And we know what it takes to get things done."
None of these endorsers will shift many votes on their own (notwithstanding Franken's claims of Clinton in Duluth), but it's a death by a thousand cuts strategy. And with Sanders boasting just two members of Congress on his side, Clinton is all too happy to tell voters that the candidates they've worked so hard to get elected in the pastthe Baldwins and Frankens of the worldare with her.
Treant
(1,968 posts)Just getting ahead of the tsunami and installing a sea wall.
Honestly, his colleages don't support him in any significant measure. This doesn't imply that he's going to get a vast amount of support, or have that much political capital to spend even if, by some miracle, he were elected President.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)dismiss anyone who backs Hillary as establishment, but he has no qualms accepting support from the few who have chosen to endorse him.
He's not a good recipe to get ANYTHING done.
BlueMTexpat
(15,372 posts)know him best are BERNT out.
pandr32
(11,605 posts)I like that..."Bernt out!"
Cha
(297,513 posts)Mahalo BlueMTex~
BlueMTexpat
(15,372 posts)Cha
(297,513 posts)kjones
(1,053 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,372 posts)can-do-nothing Prez as he's managed to alienate his strongest allies in Congress with all the "Establishment" crap.
Bernie's been in DC since 1991 and still thinks that he's not part of it.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Wellstone decried the dump as "part of a 'national pattern of discrimination in the location of waste and pollution' that preyed on those lacking political clout and financial resources."
Bernie voted for it.
BlueMTexpat
(15,372 posts)feeling the BERN seem not to know about things like this.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)aren't feeling the Bern.
72DejaVu
(1,545 posts)is to NOT love, love love him.
It does seem that way.
If you want to know about the person who's applying for a job, you need the references of those who know him/her best. That's standard operating procedure. So we look at his references and find him lacking. But - ESTABLISHMENT!!
Dragon Lefty
(10 posts)Surrogates must be working hard for Hillary. She is closing the gap. @30% undecided.
BlueMTexpat
(15,372 posts)13.2 in Bernie's favor. Polls like this are helping to bring it down.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/nh/new_hampshire_democratic_presidential_primary-3351.html
It looks as if Hill has some momentum and I hope that it continues into Tuesday! I still haven't written her off in NH.