tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post3592181318191256446..comments2024-01-17T00:45:37.075-08:00Comments on Bud Meyers: What the Media can learn from Sanders' Indiana VictoryBud Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-81363872506262794702016-05-12T13:59:19.838-07:002016-05-12T13:59:19.838-07:00This woman NAILS IT in this 20 minute rant. The me...This woman NAILS IT in this 20 minute rant. The media deliberately installed Trump ... and not just for media ratings. A MUST WATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lhIzZ8HhQMBud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-30074194682075161452016-05-09T12:49:29.208-07:002016-05-09T12:49:29.208-07:009 States have yet to vote and D.C. (doesn't in...9 States have yet to vote and D.C. (doesn't include territories) --- 7 States (or more) will put Bernie even or ahead in States over Clinton.<br /> <br />And theoretically, California alone could also put him ahead with both the popular vote and pledged delegates (not including superdelegates). In 2008 Obama didn’t have enough pledged delegates until June after every State had voted.<br /> <br />It was the same in 1992 for Bill Clinton when only after California voted did he have enough delegates. This is why the media and Clinton's surrogates wants Sanders to drop out early, to eliminate ANY possibility at all (no matter how small) that he could pull a head of her.Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-80745702481153432062016-05-09T12:32:38.130-07:002016-05-09T12:32:38.130-07:00As of this date:
18 Bernie North of the Mason-Dix...As of this date:<br /><br />18 Bernie North of the Mason-Dixon Line<br />0 Bernie in the South<br />18 total so far<br /><br />11 Clinton North of the Mason-Dixon Line<br />12 Clinton in the South<br />23 total so far<br /><br />23 Clinton<br />18 Sanders<br />41 States that voted so far<br /><br />9 States yet to vote and D.C. (doesn't include territories)<br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-51877954730643016392016-05-05T21:07:31.418-07:002016-05-05T21:07:31.418-07:00AP: "Sanders said he wants to debate Clinton ...AP: "Sanders said he wants to debate Clinton in California later this month, noting that both campaigns had reached an agreement in principle to hold the forum in the nation's largest state."<br /><br />http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/b7572961055c450293d8804279aa4362/sanders-clinton-team-thinks-race-over-theyre-wrongBud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-50254448863023238412016-05-05T21:05:02.450-07:002016-05-05T21:05:02.450-07:00From Sanders Statement on Indiana Primary Win (May...From Sanders Statement on Indiana Primary Win (May 3, 2016)<br /><br />"To help voters make the best-informed choice possible, I hope that Secretary Clinton will agree to a date and place for a debate in California.”<br /><br />https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-statement-indiana-primary-win/Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-2722434931105126602016-05-05T20:10:11.013-07:002016-05-05T20:10:11.013-07:00Her substantive views on foreign policy at least a...Her substantive views on foreign policy at least are already pretty close to neocon ones — witness her god-awful speech before AIPAC — and the Clintons have a long history of rightward triangulation. She won this primary while defending military intervention, bashing social insurance, and invoking right-wing caricatures of Sanders as a tax-and-spend liberal. Maybe she'll even dust off her husband's old plan to privatize Social Security!Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-66052861215854277922016-05-05T20:08:57.286-07:002016-05-05T20:08:57.286-07:00Clinton should be more worried about her left flan...Clinton should be more worried about her left flank. She has generally won minority populations, especially African-Americans, but Sanders has dominated among young people, and she needs those voters. This primary has had big ideological and policy differences, and while Democrats generally like Clinton, she clearly isn't the first choice of a big fraction of the party. Any sop to conservatives would risk bleeding left-wing voters who are already suspicious of her fairly conservative domestic record and hawkish foreign policy.<br /><br />http://theweek.com/articles/622455/hillary-clinton-already-wooing-antitrump-republicans-huge-mistakeBud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-6751403740203925212016-05-05T19:26:21.961-07:002016-05-05T19:26:21.961-07:00Superdelegates are not elected officials who were ...Superdelegates are not elected officials who were elected to be superdelegates. Voters only elected them to hold a specific office for a specified time. Superdelegates were appointed by party insiders to be superdelegates. L.A. Daily News: <br /><br />Wasserman Shultz said after the 2008 election “it’s a completely reasonable and fair process” and the 712 superdelegates are a small fraction of the 4,763 total delegates going to the convention in Philadelphia this summer. She also said superdelegates — in place since 1984 — have never determined the nominee. “We separate those 712 unpledged delegates and give them an opportunity to vote for who they want to because they are party leaders and elected officials and people who have been in the trenches to help build the party,” she said.<br /><br />http://www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/20160504/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-bring-democratic-battle-to-californiaBud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-56579009050915512802016-05-05T19:12:22.941-07:002016-05-05T19:12:22.941-07:00Bernie Sanders consistently does better with young...Bernie Sanders consistently does better with younger and more liberal voters; Clinton does better with older, more moderate and black voters. The best predictor of outcomes to date is how many black voters came to the polls. There’s been a correlation between how many black people live in a state and how well Hillary Clinton has done there, an effect that’s slightly stronger in states with closed primaries (meaning that independents, who strongly back Sanders, can’t vote). Indiana’s population was right at the inflection point of those curves, right at the point where you’d expect a close race.<br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/03/how-bernie-sanders-beat-the-polls-and-won-indiana/<br /><br />ABC News: Younger voters and Democrats who consider themselves liberal overwhelmingly chose Sanders again in Indiana, revealing some of Clinton’s ongoing weaknesses. According to ABC News exit poll data, Sanders won young, white voters under 45 years old by a margin of 78-to-22 percent. <br />http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-won-indiana-now/story?id=38880333<br /><br />The number of popular votes does not include all caucus states, many of which Sanders has won.<br />http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-history-lesson-dropping/story?id=38909381 Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-64141469293283514922016-05-05T15:50:21.950-07:002016-05-05T15:50:21.950-07:00HRC is a weak presidential candidate... she could ...HRC is a weak presidential candidate... she could very well lose to the Donald, especially if he runs to her left on economic issues in the general election. And the DNC has no one to blame but themselves because HRC and most of the DNC lives inside the "third way democrat" bubble just as much as the Republicans live in their fox news bubble.<br /><br />In some ways the Donald is the perfect GOP nominee. First of all HRC will have no voting record to point to in the presidential debates that define Trump as being a lapdog for wall street and/or multinational corporations promoting the free trade agreements that have eviscerated the american middle class and the Donald, on the other hand, can point to over 25 years worth of HRC support or votes for that have decimated americas middle class.<br /><br />Good luck DNC, you have picked your poison over a true progressive candidate and don't blame berniecrats if you end up losing.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840237717017411534noreply@blogger.com