The Sanders Surge

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0RB2BG20150911

It's all good...the Goldwater gal is going to crush that soshulist.

[Rex E.]

Originally Posted by bobabode

It's all good...the Goldwater gal is going to crush that soshulist.

Shame folks won't chose what's best for the country over handing family crowns around......

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Rex E.

Shame folks won't chose what's best for the country over handing family crowns around......

Is Chelsea running?

[Rex E.]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Is Chelsea running?

You can always wish on that star.......

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Rex E.

You can always wish on that star.......

Naw...besides she's got a good job running the Clinton foundation. I don't think she wants to go anywhere near political office.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Naw...besides she's got a good job running the Clinton foundation. I don't think she wants to go anywhere near political office.

Perhaps not for another twenty years, she is going to get rich first.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by bobabode

It's all good...the Goldwater gal is going to crush that soshulist.

Originally Posted by Rex E.

Shame folks won't chose what's best for the country over handing family crowns around......

Look again.

New polls out today.


https://today.yougov.com/news/2015/0...leground-poll/

Sanders up big in New Hampshire and Iowa

The new poll finds Sen. Sanders with 52% support among Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire, while former Secretary of State Clinton, long considered the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic nomination, receives 30%. Recent polls have shown Sanders’ lead growing in the Granite State, but this would be the first to show the Vermont Senator over 50%.

Possibly more worrying for the Clinton campaign is her performance in Iowa, where Sanders now leads by 10 points, with 43% to Clinton’s 33%.

And even in South Carolina where he was down about 70 points two months ago, he's closing the gap.

Biden’s best performance is in South Carolina, where he has the backing of 22% of Democratic primary voters, matching Sanders’ 23%. Yet Clinton remains firmly in the lead there with 46% support.

[bobabode]

One year and a couple months out from election day, my friend. National polls still have the 'Old Gray Mare' on top. The new Telemundo/Marist polls are an eye opener.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by bobabode

National polls still have the 'Old Gray Mare' on top.

Yeah, well the Titanic stayed afloat for a while after it hit the iceberg too.

[Tom Joad]

Bernie goes into the Lion's Den.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/14/politi...ersity-speech/

Lynchburg, Virginia (CNN)Citing the Bible, Sen. Bernie Sanders told a crowd of 10,000 conservative Christian students at Liberty University on Monday that while they'll never agree on social issues, "maybe, just maybe" they'll find common cause on income inequality.

The Democratic presidential contender ventured onto traditionally Republican territory -- the evangelical university founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell -- in hopes of converting some new admirers.

He acknowledged their differences on abortion and same-sex marriage, saying he knows that those "are issues that you feel very strongly about. We disagree on those issues."

The comment highlighted the tension in the room, as a small minority of students -- who are expected to attend convocations like Monday's -- joined the much more raucous Sanders supporters who Liberty had let into the event in clapping. It came before Sanders pivoted to the issue that was the focus of his remarks: the concentration of wealth among the richest Americans.

"Let me respectfully suggest that there are other issues out there that are of enormous consequence to our country and in fact to the entire world that maybe, just maybe, we do not disagree on. And maybe, just maybe, we can try to work together in trying to resolve them," Sanders said.

"It would be hard to make the case that we are a just society or anything resembling a just society today," he continued. "In the United States of America today, there is massive injustice in terms of income and wealth inequality. Injustice is rampant."