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BlueMTexpat

(15,349 posts)
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 10:25 AM Apr 2016

A Gradual Shift Comes Clearer As Hillary Clinton Gains More Sanders' Supporters

http://www.courant.com/business/dan-haar/hc-haar-hillary-clinton-gathers-bernie-supporters-20160421-column.html

Freddie Graves walked with her daughter a few blocks from her house to the Wilson-Gray YMCA on Albany Avenue Thursday and entered the Hillary Clinton town hall undecided between the former secretary of state and Sen. Bernie Sanders.

She agrees with what Sanders says and likes the tone of his rhetoric, but doesn't think he has the political chops to turn it into results. As for Hillary, she has long viewed the Clintons as a unit, and held against her the 1994 omnibus crime act, "the law to incarcerate African Americans at a higher rate," as Graves calls it.

Graves lingered in the YMCA gym long after the crowd was gone, and thought about her new resolve.

"I'm convinced now. I just like her message and I like her sincerity," Graves said. I'm looking at Hillary as her own person and I'm glad that I came. ... I was putting her in her husband's shoes until today."


Scales are indeed dropping from the eyes ....
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KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
1. The Crime Bill Sanders VOTED for? Numerous times.. with and without an assault weapon ban?
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 10:28 AM
Apr 2016

I get the point of excerpt but it's just ridiculous that Clinton didn't make more of a point to fight back.

Why?

Because stupid crap like this gets into people's memories.

shadowandblossom

(718 posts)
8. She mentions it every time because moderators almost never hold him to it
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 11:51 AM
Apr 2016

they always hold it against her and ignore the fact that he did it. I think she's tried but the media usually just won't do their job on that point. (Even though he's the only one who actually voted for it.)

Cha

(295,899 posts)
4. "Besides, it's becoming ever clearer that Hillary is the nominee-to-be. Connecticut's role in the
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 10:43 AM
Apr 2016
primary season will be just that, in part: Making the outcome much clearer after the New York victory that set up a Clinton run to the Democratic convention in July.

"That victory caused me and some other people to conclude that she is not only going to be the nominee, but also the best candidate," Carroll said."


Yes! Thank you!

Blue~

BlueMTexpat

(15,349 posts)
5. I was also happy to see this.
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 10:45 AM
Apr 2016

A lot of us have been saying this all along, once the gloves came off.

For Cheryl Weagraff, the migration to Clinton came too late for a primary election. The Wilbraham., Mass. resident donated to Sanders and voted for him in that state's primary. Since then, she said, while waiting for Clinton to take the stage in Hartford, "I'm disappointed in the way he's attacking Hillary."

Cha

(295,899 posts)
10. Good! I've never donated to anyone I was disappointed in later. I hope more and more start
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:12 PM
Apr 2016

seeing the real BS.

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