*HILLARY GROUP* Here's the one number that proves Bernie Sanders isn't a threat to Hillary Clinton
Some more calm reassurance for our Hillary Group. 
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/heres-the-one-number-that-proves-bernie-sanders-isnt-a-threat-to-hillary-clinton/ar-AAcAhUp
According to CNN, only 2% of Democratic voters think Sanders has the best chance of winning the general election. That number has proven to be a red flag for any candidate.
Studies have long shown that most voters desire to cast their vote for a winning candidate, and they'll often vote for their second choice if they perceive the candidate to have a better chance of winning. As University of Maryland professor Eric Pacuit points out, many voters in 2000 who supported Green Party candidate Ralph Nader ended up voting for Democratic nominee Al Gore.
There are a couple of reasons for this. According to Duke researchers Daniel Kselman and Emerson Noiu, some voters cast their votes strategically, as some Nader supporters did for Gore. Other simply desire to jump on the bandwagon of the winning team.
Voting behavior aside, Sanders's recent gains in New Hampshire shouldn't be projected elsewhere.
CNN Poll
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"Reality Bites"? 
a desire to vote for a losing candidate?
Do you like straight pretzels or really twisty ones? 
It's fun to support our candidate of choice. Why do people feel they can come in our sandbox and kick sand in our face? I don't do that in their sand box!
We need good Democratic candidates to take on contestable House and Senate seats in 2016.
I want Hillary's "evening gown train" to sweep us in a Democratic Congress!
Enough with the primary side show. 
I see an establishment - don't you?
When did electing a substantially credentialed liberal Democratic woman of Hillary Clinton's stature (so reviled by conservative Republicans!) not be considered progressive?
Who are these people?
and if you respond in kind, you're the one who winds up with the hide. Truly amazing. 
Sanders, a liberal icon, has emerged as a surprisingly strong candidate since launching his campaign two months ago, raising $15 million and making huge gains on Clinton recently among Democratic voters in Iowa, which will host the country's first presidential caucus.
Yet at least 26 Democrats representing the 69-member Congressional Progressive Caucus –– a bastion of liberal thinking that Sanders helped to launch –– have already endorsed Clinton, according to a tally being kept by The Hill.
The list includes liberal stalwarts like Reps. Rosa DeLaura (D-Conn.) and Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) –– both forceful voices in the recent trade debate that Clinton was reluctant to enter –– and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), three vociferous critics of an Iraq War that Clinton, as a New York senator, supported.
yallerdawg http://www.democraticunderground.com/110711038Our attention span and fundamentals of reading now ends at 144 characters or less.
The problem is, in 144 characters or less you can still be annoyingly wrong, wrong, wrong!
Right, Cha?
Bernie Sanders is winning a third of the vote in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to the latest polls. Nearly 10,000 people showed up at his Wisconsin rally this week. Roughly 250,000 small donors have contributed to his campaign.
At Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn HQ, it’s as if they’ve never heard of him.
The Clinton campaign is reading straight from the front-runner’s playbook when dealing with the socialist Vermont senator. Her staff insists it’s taking Sanders’ polling bump seriously while showing no signs of changing its long-charted course. There are no new plans to attack Sanders, no alterations of the forthcoming policy rollouts that will dot the summer calendar, and no expected leftward sprints to match him policy-for-policy. She doesn’t even mention his name on the campaign trail.
Instead, the former secretary of state’s political operation is making a show of its organizational muscle and safeguarding its position beyond the early-voting states. Far from sweating over reports of standing-room-only crowds at the Vermonter’s events, the Clinton campaign is breathing a quiet sigh of relief that it’s Sanders — and not a potentially more viable primary opponent like Elizabeth Warren — nipping at its heels this summer. The senator’s name pops up in conversations at Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters, but he’s not the topic of the day, week or month — not even in the candidate’s chats with donors, who are keeping a close tab on the state of play.
“No one’s hair is on fire about him,” explained Maria Cardona, a national Democratic strategist who remains in close touch with the Clinton camp after working for Hillary’s 2008 campaign. “Not even the nose hairs. Nothing.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/bernie-who-119721.html#ixzz3f3dpvq9h
This is why I don't feel the need to combat all the fantastical headlines and accusations of "Fear" by the BS crowd. I don't blame people who want to "set the record straight", but it's like arguing with two year olds, and I figure....what's the point?
This is why I want HRC's media surrogates to just Cool It! BS is no threat. Speak about him in glowing terms if you must, but no need to attack.
If we've learned anything, it's the ugliness of some of his most ardent supporters, and they're not winning anyone over with that. They are, in fact, his greatest liability. The groups they need to buy in feel more alienated than ever from BS, and it has less to do with him, and more to do with his so-called "supporters".
How often does a campaign staff actually ignore primary opposition?
Of course the 'anyone buts' will characterize it as "whistling past the graveyard" but I see no good reason for Hillary to promote Senator Sanders (I-VT). Let BS work for it - if he is on the same stage with Hillary, then he must have earned it, right?
I don't see that changing. If the attitude displayed here is any indication, I hope, for BS' sake, that none of his DU "supporters" are working door-to-door.
Safe havens are zones of intolerance - I hope. The groups stress unfettered positivity towards the candidate or the subject of choice.
GD and now GD Primaries are for argument, but you have to try to keep it respectful and impersonal, or you can get "swarm hides."
Most liberal activists (people who care and do something! including pointless blog and internet activity) are anti-establishment and idealistic. Iowa caucus participants and a lot of DUers are of course anti-Hillary.
In 2008 Iowa caucus, Hillary came in 3rd. I'm pretty sure, no matter what, Hillary will place higher this time!
