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clinton vs. sanders your vote?
#725clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 8/27/15 at 7:46pm
Someone should ask Willy Wonka if Bernie Sanders never votes against the gun industry why he has an F rating from the NRA.
#726clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 8/28/15 at 7:15am
Clinton quietly trying to discourage Biden from a 2016 bid
WASHINGTON (AP) — In ways both subtle and blunt, Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is sending a message to Vice President Joe Biden about his potential presidential campaign: This won't be easy.
As Biden ponders a challenge to Clinton for the Democratic nomination, she has rolled out a string of high-profile endorsements in the early-voting contests of Iowa and South Carolina and scheduled an onslaught of fundraisers across the country in the effort to throw cold water on a possible Biden bid.
Donors who have publicly expressed support for a Biden run have been contacted by the Clinton team, according to donors and Democratic strategists who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the private conversations. Even Clinton herself has made a few calls, they said, to express her disappointment.
While Clinton and her team speak warmly of Biden in public, they have taken steps to show their dominance over the party's establishment and President Barack Obama's political infrastructure in hopes of quietly discouraging the vice president from entering the race.
The effort comes as Clinton and the Democratic field of candidates prepare to address members of the Democratic National Committee on Friday during their summer meeting in Minneapolis. The night before her formal address, Clinton made her case in private briefings to attendees. Meanwhile, representatives from a super PAC backing Biden plan to woo delegates in his absence.
"I have great deal of admiration and affection for him," Clinton said of Biden during a stop in Iowa on Wednesday. "I think he has to make what is a very difficult decision for himself and his family. He should have the space and the opportunity to decide what he wants to do."
While Biden considered his options, Clinton's team released a series of memos Thursday night that detailed their organizing work in early-voting states. "For months, we were the only campaign on either side of the aisle with offices and staff reaching out to voters," wrote Clay Middleton, her state director in South Carolina. "This head start has provided an organizing advantage."
Clinton's campaign has taken other steps in South Carolina, where Biden has deep ties, to showcase her clout. She recently picked up the endorsements of two former governors, Jim Hodges and Dick Riley, the latter who served as education secretary during Bill Clinton's administration. Her campaign's chairman, John Podesta, appeared at an event in the state last week.
During a trip to the Iowa State Fair earlier this month, former Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin joined Clinton and endorsed her campaign. When she returned to Iowa this week, she was joined by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a former Iowa governor who wrote in an op-ed in the Gazette of Cedar Rapids that he intended to caucus for her, "plain and simple."
Clinton's fundraising apparatus has extensive overlap with Biden's, causing some awkwardness among their donors.
"I plan on supporting Secretary Clinton. She is the announced candidate," said George Tsunis, a Long Island, New York, businessman and a top donor to Obama and Biden's 2012 re-election campaign. "If the vice president were to announce his candidacy and run, I would be supporting the vice president."
Clinton's campaign, however, is not leaving an opening in fundraising, lining up about three-dozen events in September after the Labor Day holiday. The stops include Atlanta; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Cincinnati; Dallas; Little Rock, Arkansas; Milwaukee; New York; Port Elizabeth, Maine; and Washington, D.C.
Some of the events will be hosted by leading donors to Obama and Biden's campaigns, including New Jersey public relations executive Michael Kempner, Dallas attorney Marc Stanley, Washington money management executive Frank White Jr., and Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., who previously served as Obama's ambassador to Switzerland.
In Chicago, Clinton is scheduled to attend fundraisers on Sept. 17 hosted by two longtime Obama supporters, attorney Joseph Power and businessman Michael Polsky.
While her husband presides over the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York in late September, Clinton will raise money at seven fundraisers planned in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Following her West Coast swing, she will tap into the network of country music stars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw at a Nashville fundraiser on Sept. 29.
Those advocating for a Biden run say they'll be able to build a vibrant primary organization and have already solicited commitments from a number of Clinton backers who say they are ready to switch sides.
"They don't want to put their neck out unless they know Biden is in this," said Jon Cooper, finance chairman of the Draft Biden super PAC, and a top Obama fundraiser. "But I have no doubt he'll be able to put together a national fundraising infrastructure in place overnight." He estimated the PAC would raise as much as $3 million over the next few weeks.
Asked about the possibility of Biden running, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday, "I just don't know. I just don't know."
She added: "I think there's a lot of excitement in the country to have the first woman president of the United States. ... We want to win. We have to win."
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#727clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 8/28/15 at 7:24am
I hope he runs!
So here's why Hillary can't answer the Keystone Pipeline question!
Hillary Clinton Becomes First 2016 Candidate To Release Bundler Names
Former Keystone pipeline lobbyist is among the names.
"Among the names are Esprit founder Susie Tompkins Buell; Comcast lobbyist David Cohen; hedge funders Blair Effron, Orin Kramer and Marc Lasry; Chicago billionaires J.B.Pritzker and M.K. Pritzker; Hollywood honcho and Israel booster Haim Saban; trial lawyer and medical marijuana proponent John Morgan; and The New Republic owner Chris Hughes and his husband Sean Eldridge.
Lynn Forrest de Rothschild is back as a Clinton bundler in 2016. After Clinton's loss to Barack Obama in the 2008 primary, de Rothschild flipped her support to Republican presidential candidate John McCain. She backed former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman in the 2012 Republican primary, and Mitt Romney in the 2012 general election.
A number of members of Congress, current and former, are among Clinton’s bundlers. They include Reps. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), Jim Himes (D-Conn.) and former Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.).
One notable bundler is Gordon Giffin, a former lobbyist for the Canadian company working to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Giffin is also on the board of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, which paid Clinton $990,000 for speeches she gave immediately before announcing her presidential campaign."
#728clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 8/28/15 at 6:23pm
Hillary displaying why Hillary-lovers love her.
#729clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 8/28/15 at 6:35pm
And an interesting article about how Hillary is using the super-delegate techniques honed by Barack Obama's campaign in 2008.
#730clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 8/28/15 at 6:41pm
Attacking Trump is easy. Getting Erik and others to vote for her in the general election is going to take harder stuff.
Stephanatic
#732clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 8/28/15 at 11:00pm
She needs to distance herself from the bankers and accept Democratic Socialism.
Stephanatic
#733clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 8/28/15 at 11:04pm
Rooting for Trump right now seems to be our "libs" best strategy. Love this stuff.
Stephanatic
#734clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 8/29/15 at 12:06am
She needs to distance herself from the bankers and accept Democratic Socialism.
I'll tell her to get right on that.
#735clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 8/30/15 at 8:05am
I know, I know! It doesn't matter! But...
Sanders closes to 7 points behind Clinton in new Iowa poll
Washington (CNN)Bernie Sanders continues to cut into Hillary Clinton's once-commanding lead among Iowa Democrats, closing to just 7 points of the party front-runner in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, a new poll has found.
A survey released late Saturday afternoon by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics finds that Sanders, the fiery progressive senator from Vermont, trails Clinton 37% to 30%. The former secretary of state has lost one-third of her supporters since May.
#736clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 8/30/15 at 8:17am
Yes, he will take the two early renegade states Iowa (February 1st) and New Hampshire (February 9), but then Hillary will take Nevada on February 20 and South Carolina (February 27).
And then Hillary will take all the Super Tuesday states on March 1 (Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Virginia), and it will all be over but the shouting.
When he starts to encroach on her in Nevada (where she leads him 55.4% to 18.3%) or South Carolina (where she leads him 67% to 9% with Biden at 10.5%), then it will be a horserace.
#737clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 8/30/15 at 6:21pm
Or maybe he won't. A 34% lead is still commanding.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads field in Iowa with 54%, followed by Bernie Sanders with 20% and Joe Biden with 11%, Suffolk University poll finds.
#738clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 9/1/15 at 9:13am
In the end, this is all the email "scandal" comes down to:
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#743clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 9/1/15 at 12:26pm
I've to quite a few Sanders events now. People talk about Hillary Clinton. A lot. But you know one thing I haven't heard one person talk about? Hillary Clinton's emails. Because no one cares.
#744clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 9/2/15 at 8:46am
I couldn't have choreographed better the beginning of this campaign season for both sides, thoroughly enjoy watching Bernie Sanders gain momentum, every day he seems to be gaining traction.
Stephanatic
#745clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 9/2/15 at 9:57am
Hillary is so far ahead of Bernie on the gun issue. No one who cares about the proliferation of guns in this country can prefer him over her.
Now she takes ownership of drug-and-alcohol-addiction treatment.
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#746clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 9/2/15 at 10:27am
Howard Dean's was the first presidential candidate I ever gave money to.
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#747clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 9/2/15 at 10:41am
The gun issue is huge, maybe the biggest for me PJ, and yes Bernie lags behind in the rhetoric, but his total platform is what keeps me hoping.
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#748clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 9/2/15 at 10:52am
Now she takes ownership of drug-and-alcohol-addiction treatment.
Seeing as addiction treatment and drug abuse is a criminally-overlooked disease by the federal government, including their funding which is paltry in comparison to heart disease and cancer, this is a no-brainer for any politician. Why does she deserve a pat on the back for doing something basically humane, logical and politically "safe"? Anyone who has a brain knows drug addiction is severely ignored by the government.
#749clinton vs. sanders your vote?
Posted: 9/2/15 at 11:05am
The problem is...Clinton has proved, over and over, that half of what she says is bullsh!t. Because Clinton's first priority is her Wall Street backers that have made her and her husband extremely wealthy.
Wall Street Is Betting on Bush and Clinton
Financial disclosures show the candidates raising cash from investment firms
"Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, collected about $300,000 from employees at the nation’s six largest banks, with about $88,000 coming from Morgan Stanleyexecutives alone, and about $62,000 from workers at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
The Clintons have long enjoyed ties to Wall Street, a vulnerability for her with some Democratic primary voters who blame big banks for many of the nation’s financial problems. In an economic speech this week, she vowed to tighten oversight of the industry but steered clear of the regulatory proposals most loathed on Wall Street that have been offered by her Democratic challengers.
Forty federally registered lobbyists raised more than $2 million since April for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, according to her disclosure.?"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/wall-street-jumps-onboard-bush-campaign-1437004164
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