Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
madfloridian
madfloridian's Journal
madfloridian's Journal
March 2, 2016
So what do you think about Bill Clinton posing with man with ballot?
Just wondering. Saw this at twitter.
https://twitter.com/BernieTeachers
March 2, 2016
Why Michael how very kind of you to say that Bernie can continue on.
There's more condescending lecturing at the link.
Who does he think he is? Why is he chastising only one candidate?
He is making it sound "okay" for Bernie to continue on...but only if he doesn't say unkind things about the presumptive nominee..
In my opinion that is probably one of the worst ideas Tomasky has come up with ever.
I'm feeling less and less like a member of the party. If our leaders and journalists and online anchors are picking our presumptive nominee....then why bother to vote?
Michael Tomasky warns Bernie to get in line and quit attacking Hillary as she will win.
I find myself increasingly disappointed with many journalists and news moderators who have taken sides so openly in this primary.
Time for Bernie Sanders to Get in Line. Time to ratchet back his attacks on the presumptive nominee.
Does Super Tuesday change anything on the Democratic side? Bernie Sanders got enough wins, and delegates, to keep at it. So that wont changeand I want to say clearly that it should not change. But this is what should change: From here on in, Sanders ought to lay off the attacks on Hillary Clinton, the Goldman Sachs speeches and all the rest. Eventually, hes going to lose. Shes going to win. He can do it in a way that burnishes hi Fs standing in the party hes decided to be a member of and that makes him a pivotally powerful senator during a potential Clinton presidency. Or he can do it in a way that damages her reputation and ultimately his own.
Most of the individual results, for all the hype, dont really mean that much. Sanders won Vermont. Given. Sanders won Minnesota and Colorado, which are both important states, but theyre weird caucuses. Oklahoma was an interesting win, but the black percentage of the vote is small there compared to deep South states, and anyway its as red as a state gets. Wesley Clark won Oklahoma in 2004.
A number of Clintons wins dont really matter much either, again, because theyre red general election states. Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas; who cares how much she won by? Georgia is a slightly different story, because Georgia is inching its way toward purple-dom, and she can at least make Donald Trump spend money there this fall.
Sanders should keep running. He has the money, so why not? He draws the crowds. And his presence keeps Clinton on her toes, keeps her from sail-trimming and tacking back to the center too early. So he should stay in as long as he wants to stay and keep up the pressure on the issues.
Why Michael how very kind of you to say that Bernie can continue on.
But its time to start pulling back on the food fight. Sanders got into this race thinking: Im not gonna win, but Im gonna push this party to the populist-left and put issues on the table that I want to see put on the table. You could tell this way back when he said enough with the damn emails. Then he came oh-so-close in Iowa and rolled in New Hampshire, and thats when he started to think he might actually win this thingto the astonishing extent that he reportedly didnt even write a concession speech in Nevada.
There's more condescending lecturing at the link.
Who does he think he is? Why is he chastising only one candidate?
He is making it sound "okay" for Bernie to continue on...but only if he doesn't say unkind things about the presumptive nominee..
In my opinion that is probably one of the worst ideas Tomasky has come up with ever.
I'm feeling less and less like a member of the party. If our leaders and journalists and online anchors are picking our presumptive nominee....then why bother to vote?
March 2, 2016
Bill Clinton was campaigning right near polling place entry. Video leaves no doubt.
Several Bernie Sanders supporters were told they could not hold their signs near the polling station, but Bill Clinton and others were pushing the crowd to vote for Hillary Clinton much closer to the Buttonwood Park Warmer Center, which is a polling station for Ward 5E and 5F. The entrance to the warming center was just to the left of President Clinton in this photo. Not sure how anyone could have voted for about 20 minutes.
Here is the video of the visit:
https://www.facebook.com/NewBedfordGu...
Here is the MA law:
"Within 150 feet of a polling place no person shall solicit votes for or against, or otherwise promote or oppose, any person or political party or position on a ballot question, to be voted on at the current election. No campaign material intended to influence the vote of a voter in the ongoing election, including campaign literature, buttons, signs, and ballot stickers, may be posted, exhibited, circulated, or distributed in the polling place, in the building where it is located, on the building walls, on the premises where the building stands, or within 150 feet of an entrance door to the building. ( 950 CMR 53.03(18); 54.04.22)"
March 1, 2016
Obama lost 21 states. Hillary stayed in until June.
Bernie supporters gave him close to 45 million in February alone. Does that sound like a failing campaign?
I think I just read Bernie took in 6 million yesterday alone.
That's amazing.
That's enough to continue to get his message out no matter what happens.
March 1, 2016
NYT says campaign report indicates Bill Clinton went inside the polling place with mayor.
Bill Clinton Gets a Little Too Close to Voters in BostonSome poll workers in Boston did a double-take on Tuesday at the unusual sight of a former president of the United States campaigning inside polling places.
Bill Clinton, an inveterate campaigner who has always loved Election Day, was ranging over the state trying to pump up voters to cast their ballots for his wife, Hillary Clinton.
We had to remind some of our poll workers that even a president cant go inside and work a polling place, William F. Galvin, the Massachusetts secretary of state, said in an interview.
A pool report from Mr. Clintons visit to Bostons West Roxbury neighborhood on Tuesday morning said that he went inside the polling place with the citys mayor, Martin J. Walsh. Mr. Clinton stopped at a bake sale at the entrance and then shook hands with poll workers.
When one woman asked for a photo, Mr. Clinton said, As long as were not violating any election laws, the pool report said.
Profile Information
Gender: FemaleHometown: Florida
Member since: 2002
Number of posts: 88,117