Hillary Clinton
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Hillary is a walking refutation of Trumpism: a woman who has beat back bullies of all kinds over more than four decades of public service; a determined progressive whose first job out of law school was doing civil rights work for the Children's Defense Fund (the organization's founder, Marian Wright Edelman, is supporting her 2016 candidacy); an experienced leader who has fought for liberal ideals as first lady, US senator, and secretary of state.
Yeah, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont talks a good revolutionary game. But his failure to rally a diverse coalition, his history of selling out certain liberal ideals for political expediency, and his peddling of unrealistic promises make him wrong for this political moment.
Let's review.
More than 25 states have now weighed in on the Democratic race. The result: Hillary has a commanding lead over Bernie in terms of pledged convention delegates (a lead that stays commanding even if you factor out Clinton's large stash of pledged "superdelegates" . To catch up, Bernie would need to win the remaining primaries and caucuses by the kind of yuge margins that he's failed to consistently capture so far. Sorry, Bernie, it's not gonna happen.
More concerning: A large part of Bernie's poor performance so far traces back to his failure to win support from minority voters. Perhaps you've heard about Bernie's big "upset" in Michigan on March 8? Bernie won Michigan by a slim 1.5 percent margin overall but lost the state's black vote big time. Hillary won 65 percent of the black vote in Michigan. She also won more than 80 percent of the black vote in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, and nearly 70 percent of the black vote in Ohio. If Bernie is leading a revolution, it's an overwhelmingly white one. Bernie and his supporters should reflect on this failure. Black voters matter. Democrats don't win national elections without black voters, and they're speaking unambiguously in favor of Hillary.
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The whole thing is awesome...!
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Conspiracy!!11
BainsBane
(53,112 posts)I think they have two different ones going. You get Clinton if you click the older age, Bernie for the younger or if you decline to select an age.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)creon
(1,183 posts)Clinton is on track to win the nomination. It is hers to lose.
The Sanders fans will have to decide what they will do if she does.
The campaign after the conventions will be the most rancorous and strident within living memory.
I think that you can count on that.
You have the Sanders fans who are mad as a meat axe and the Trump fans who are mad as a meat axe. Or, affect to be.
Both will get over it; or, they will not.
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)is that we already had the revolution. It happened with Barrack Obama and its about to happen again with Hillary Clinton.
Cha
(297,935 posts)Quite simply.. BS doesn't have what it takes.
Mahalo Starry~