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Anyone surprised ??

 

 

Media: Hey, We Can Pretty Much Hand Hillary the Nomination Now, Right?
by Jim Gerharty
We’ve had three Democratic contests in their presidential primary, and so far we’ve been allowed to see the vote totals in one of them. Heck of a party you’ve got there, my friends.
Yet Hillary Clinton’s five-point win in the Nevada caucus – where the vote totals are handled more securely and with more secrecy than classified information on Hillary’s server –was treated as a decisive turning point in a lot of corners of the media this weekend:
The Slate Headline: After a Much-Needed Nevada Win, Things Are Looking Way Up for Hillary Clinton
The Daily Beast: “With South Carolina and Super Tuesday looming ahead, Bernie Sanders’ campaign is fast approaching an expiration date.”
USA Today: Hillary Clinton’s victory in Nevada halts the momentum of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who trounced her earlier this month in New Hampshire, and the win may begin a streak as the battle heads to a series of Southern-voting states that favor her. .
Errol Louis, writing at CNN: Bernie Sanders and his followers have every right to feel energized by his second-place finish in Nevada: Only a few weeks ago, Sanders was more than 20 points behind Clinton, and yet he managed to build momentum, swiftly close the gap and nearly overtake her. But things didn’t break his way, for reasons that could prove to be fatal to his presidential hopes: Economically hard-pressed voters in Nevada chose Clinton’s experience and electability over the soaring hopes and class-warfare rhetoric of Sanders.
Do you get the feeling some folks want to declare the Democratic primary over?
Bernie Sanders won 47 percent on Saturday. I haven’t seen the figure “47 percent” get this much bad press since Mitt Romney’s comments to donors. Think about it, we’ve had one razor-thin Hillary win (Iowa), one Sanders landslide (New Hampshire), and one reasonably solid Hillary win (Nevada). Take a guess at what the delegate split is… (Play “Jeopardy” theme here.)
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ROLL CALL: More Ready for Kwan Than Clinton.

 

Hillary Clinton won the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, but she still has a gaping weakness with the young voters that helped delivered the White House to President Barack Obama and the Democrats in 2008. If your presidential campaign had just lost the youth vote by 70 percent to a wild-haired, 74-year-old socialist in two states, you would deploy Michelle Kwan to do something about it too.

Kwan is an accomplished (five-time World Figure Skating Champion), brilliant (Stanford grad), politically astute (she worked as an envoy in the Obama State Department and married the grandson of a senator) daughter of immigrants (the New American Majority!). More important than any of that, she is beloved by young women who once adorned their bedroom walls with posters of Kwan and are now old enough to vote for Hillary Clinton.

But at one of four college events that Kwan headlined for Clinton last week in South Carolina ahead of Saturday’s primary, even Kwan couldn’t get the 30-or-so people who came Ready for Hillary.

And it’s not because she didn’t try.

 

 

It’s a tough sell. Hillary is boring, old, and kind of mean. Also extraordinarily corrupt.

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1 in 5 Americans say Hillary Clinton is “dishonest” or a “liar.” Here’s why that’s a big problem.

by Chris Cilizza

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/24/hillary-clintons-trust-problem-continues-to-dog-her/

 

On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that several top aides to Hillary Clinton during her time at the State Department were required to testify under oath about whether exclusively using a private email server while serving as secretary of state amounted to a deliberate attempt to shield information from the public.

 

This is the latest in a series of developments regarding Clinton’s email server — and her decision to exclusively use it during her time as the nation’s top diplomat. (Clinton is the first and only secretary of state to only use a private server for her correspondence.) Almost weekly now, there is some news in one of the three ongoing investigations — two at State, one by the FBI — into Clinton. And the drip, drip, drip effect of these now-regular revelations continues to have a major impact on how Clinton is viewed by the voting public.

 

Gallup released a fascinating bit of data Tuesday that speaks to Clinton’s trust problem. They asked people to offer up the first word or phrase that came to mind when the name “Hillary Clinton” was mentioned. Here’s what the results of that open-ended question looked like:

 

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One in five people — unprompted by the poll taker — offered up some version of Clinton as “dishonest” or a “liar.” That's somewhat remarkable given that these open-ended questions typically produce a gigantic muddle of something like 25 words or phrases — all of which garner somewhere between 5 and 8 percent support.

 

 

 

more at the link:

 

 

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The often confused Hillary Clinton sat down with Steve Harvey yesterday to talk guns. It’s about what you’d expect with her usual spin on “common sense gun measures,” but check out what she says at the 2:12 mark:

 

“We’ve got to say to the gun lobby, you know what, there is a constitutional right for people to own guns. But there’s also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that enables us to have a safe country. where we are able to protect our children and others from this senseless gun violence.”

 

 

 

 

Nice speech Hillary, but “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is — of course — in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.

 

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The often confused Hillary Clinton sat down with Steve Harvey yesterday to talk guns. It’s about what you’d expect with her usual spin on “common sense gun measures,” but check out what she says at the 2:12 mark:

 

“We’ve got to say to the gun lobby, you know what, there is a constitutional right for people to own guns. But there’s also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that enables us to have a safe country. where we are able to protect our children and others from this senseless gun violence.”

 

 

 

 

Nice speech Hillary, but “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is — of course — in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.

 

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand :doh: again.

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-ny-times-editorial-board-calls-on-hillary-to-release-speech-transcripts/

 

 

 

“Everybody does it,” is an excuse expected from a mischievous child, not a presidential candidate. But that is Hillary Clinton’s latest defense for making closed-door, richly-paid speeches to big banks, which many middle-class Americans still blame for their economic pain, and then refusing to release the transcripts.
Public interest in these speeches is legitimate, and it is the public — not the candidate — who decides how much disclosure is enough. By stonewalling on these transcripts Mrs. Clinton plays into the hands of those who say she’s not trustworthy and makes her own rules. Most important, she is damaging her credibility among Democrats who are begging her to show them that she’d run an accountable and transparent White House
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57 states and counting.

Marine Corpseman.

 

Dem gaffs aren't gaffs. We just don't understand their brilliance.

 

I read the other day where Obama was seen with binders full of judges he was considering for nomination...

 

...really? Didn't we throw a ridiculous shitstorm over that sort of thing not too far back?

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The often confused Hillary Clinton sat down with Steve Harvey yesterday to talk guns. Its about what youd expect with her usual spin on common sense gun measures, but check out what she says at the 2:12 mark:

 

 

 

Weve got to say to the gun lobby, you know what, there is a constitutional right for people to own guns. But theres also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that enables us to have a safe country. where we are able to protect our children and others from this senseless gun violence.

 

 

Nice speech Hillary, but life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is of course in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.

 

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Supporting the 2nd ammendment, does not equate to forsaking life liberty and happiness are not mutually exclusive. There is no correlation. Ridiculous argument even by her standards Edited by drinkTHEkoolaid
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