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Autumn's JournalHey Democrats, it's okay to vote for Bernie Sanders
The win in New Hampshire, however, wasn't as big as many polls had predicted. Sen. Amy Klobuchar in particular drastically beat expectations, coming in at nearly 20 percent against a pre-election polling average of about 11 percent, while Pete Buttigieg also gained a couple points to 24 percent. Meanwhile, former Vice President Joe Biden got absolutely destroyed, just like in Iowa. He came in fifth with just 9 percent, compared to a polling average of 11 percent and a total collapse from 23 percent just a month ago. It appears there is a significant population of voters who are just looking for any kind of moderate candidate who seems halfway plausible.
But the odd thing here is that a big number of these voters are almost certainly fine with Sanders they have just talked themselves into thinking that he can't possibly win. Hey Democrats! You can just vote for Bernie Sanders if you want. It'll be okay.
It can be hard to see this if you watch too much of the hysterically anti-Sanders coverage on supposedly-liberal MSNBC Chris Matthews recently spoke of his fear that Sanders is a secret communist who might execute him in Central Park but the fact is most rank-and-file Democrats like Sanders just fine. Indeed, the Morning Consult poll found that his favorability rating among that group is 74 percent the highest of any of the candidates, even better than Biden
https://theweek.com/articles/895378/hey-democrats-okay-vote-bernie-sanders?fbclid=IwAR3ENdC77LnxpLbqtPxom6RFg6JOArInbcpwnqaEGSYUnqQujpfhGH41_WA
More Than 75% of Democrats Would Support a Socialist for President: Gallup
"When Americansespecially millennialsthink of 'socialism,' they primarily think about Bernie Sanders, Western European democracies, income equality, and access to healthcare."
byJulia Conley, staff writer
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/11/more-75-democrats-would-support-socialist-president-gallup?fbclid=IwAR3nRpGxRAL-33iEbZqXJqavxi501VHQi36vZhFDR2RTQQ9AM0rFyfRXYV0
More than three-quarters of Democratic voters surveyed76%told Gallup they would support a presidential candidate who identified as a socialist.
A large chunk of independent voters said they would back such a candidate, with 45% saying so, while only 17% of Republicans reported the same. Overall, 45% of 1,033 respondents said they would back a socialist in the poll, which had a margin of error of four percentage points.
The poll was released Tuesday as voters in New Hampshire head to the polls, a day after Sanders and one of his most high-profile surrogates, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), rallied more than 7,500 voters in Durham, New Hampshire.
Both politicians identify as democratic socialists and promote a vision of the U.S. which would more closely resemble other wealthy countries such as Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Residents of those Nordic nations benefit from government-run healthcare which is free at the point of delivery and which has been shown to have better health outcomes for the population; public college that is tuition-free or nearly free; and robust labor protections including guaranteed paid family leave, vacation time, and unions.
"We're moving forward," Ocasio-Cortez said. "We're moving forward to a multiracial democracy, forward to guaranteed healthcare, forward to a living wage, for fighting for our neighbors."
Headlines regarding the survey suggested it had dire implications for a socialist candidate in the 2020 election, despite the fact that the majority of respondents with negative feelings about socialism would be less likely to support any Democratic candidate than the Democratic respondents.
As Common Dreams reported last October, an annual poll regarding attitudes about socialism revealed why Democratic voters aren't fearful of the word, despite fear-mongering by the corporate media and President Donald Trump about socialist countries.
"When Americansespecially millennialsthink of 'socialism,' they primarily think about Bernie Sanders, Western European democracies, income equality, and access to healthcare," acknowledged the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation of the poll, which showed that 70% of U.S. millennials would back a socialist for president. "They also do not associate socialism with communism and authoritarianism."
https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1227045649973071873
BERNIE SANDERS LEADS ALL DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN SUPPORT FROM NON-WHITE VOTERS, NEW POLLS SHOW
https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-leads-all-democratic-candidates-support-non-white-voters-new-polls-show-1486807?fbclid=IwAR08NtErHfpJ3ZXhr9M719n-MThq6rqxA8ClSh2vvKApwdvUBhfT0hOj8KEFormer Vice President Joe Biden has long touted his support from minorityand particularly blackvoters to demonstrate his electability for the Democratic party's nomination. But the candidate's support has appeared to slide dramatically among all demographics since his fourth-place finish in Iowa last Monday. Meanwhile, Sanders appears to be surging.
The independent senator from Vermont is backed by 28 percent of black, non-white Hispanic and Asian voters, according to the latest polling data from Monmouth University. Biden came in second with support from 20 percent, or 8 points less than Sanders.
A separate by Morning Consult, Sanders has gained 10 points in support among black voters, with 27 percent saying they now back the senator, as opposed to the 17 percent who were before the Iowa caucuses. Meanwhile, Biden's support from the vital demographic has dropped to just 35 percent, which still puts him ahead of Sanders by 8 percent.
PSA Newsweek does their headlines in all CAPS. No, I am not yelling.
I voted in my primary today...
I was proud to vote for Bernie Sanders! He's the one we need.
Biden plummets in new national poll, ceding top spot to Bernie
The new Quinnipiac survey also shows Bloomberg surging 7 points to third place and eating into Biden's support among black voters.
By CAITLIN OPRYSKO
The new Quinnipiac University poll, conducted after Sanders strong showing in the Iowa caucuses a week ago, has the Vermont senator boasting the support of 25 percent of Democratic voters, making an 8-point lead over Biden and a 4-point increase over the last national survey taken before the caucuses.
Biden dropped 9 points to 17 percent after his dismal performance in Iowa, followed close behind by former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who rose 7 points to 15 percent, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who dropped 1 point to 14 percent.
While former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg got a 4-point bump after appearing to narrowly edge Sanders out for first place in the Iowa state delegate count results which Buttigieg and Sanders are both challenging Buttigieg came in at 5th place nationally in the Quinnipiac poll, with 10 percent of the vote. Sen. Amy Klobuchar rounds out the top six with 4 percent, a drop of 3 points, while no other candidate broke 2 percent in the poll.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/10/joe-biden-national-poll-113302?fbclid=IwAR0RRuTFItr5nlsHIR0-z6evMq7sOjEmmBWoRqO69FfN1YB7DPSHTO9GBQI
Bad behavior like this?
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Mike Bloomberg said trans rights are about "some man wearing a dress" using a locker room with girls
He said that things should be run like in prison: "drop your trousers, you go this way, you go that way."
By Alex Bollinger Friday, February 7, 2020
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/02/mike-bloomberg-said-trans-rights-man-wearing-dress-using-locker-room-girls/?fbclid=IwAR23gEv-BEVfCQnrIph-ME2wf-Eu8J3CVr5Ti-MlfNm1BesRAYzXu7JansQ
I dont know how many of you are familiar with the bathroom issue in the United States, he said during a panel discussion at Oxford University, which is in the United Kingdom. Debates on transgender rights regularly appear in mainstream media in the U.K. and are perhaps more heated than in the U.S. Anybody know what Im talking about?
If you want to know if somebody is a good salesman, give them the job of going to the Midwest and picking a town and selling to that town the concept that some man wearing a dress should be in a locker room with their daughter, he said. If you can sell that, you can sell anything.
The idea of transgender women using bathrooms and other facilities with underage girls with the implication that trans women will molest children has been one of the most consistently used attacks on transgender rights by the religious right.
Buttigieg campaign released a memo in which it detailed its internal data from last night.
His numbers seem pretty close to Bernie's release
https://twitter.com/chelsea_janes/status/1224663237938962432
App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested
The app was quickly put together in the past two months and was not properly tested at a statewide scale, according to people briefed on the matter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/us/politics/iowa-caucus-app.html
An official from Shadow did not respond to requests for comment, but one of the companys investors, Acronym, a progressive nonprofit company, released a statement saying that Acronym was a separate entity from Shadow and that it was still waiting to hear from the Iowa Democratic Party with respect to what happened.
Matt Blaze, a professor of computer science and law at Georgetown, said that introducing apps in the midst of an election posed many problems. Any type of app or program that relies on using a cellphone network to deliver results is vulnerable to problems both on the app and on the phones being used to run it, he said.
The consensus of all experts who have been thinking about this is unequivocal, Mr. Blaze added. Internet and mobile voting should not be used at this time in civil elections.
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