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May 12, 2016
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/donald-trump-is-winning-the-polls-and-losing-the-nomination/
Nate Silver: "Our emphatic prediction is simply that Trump will not win the nomination."
At FiveThirtyEight, however, we’re fairly agnostic about what will happen to Trump’s polling in the near term. It’s possible that he’s already peaked — or that he’ll hold his support all the way through Iowa and New Hampshire, possibly even winning one or two early states, as similar candidates like Pat Buchanan and Newt Gingrich have in the past.4 Our emphatic prediction is simply that Trump will not win the nomination. It’s not even clear that he’s trying to do so.
-Nate Silver Aug 11, 2015
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/donald-trump-is-winning-the-polls-and-losing-the-nomination/
May 12, 2016
Denied Breaks, U.S. Poultry Workers Wear Diapers on the Job
Workers in plants run by the largest U.S. poultry producers are regularly being denied bathroom breaks and as a result some are reduced to wearing diapers while working on the processing line, Oxfam America said in a report Wednesday.
“It’s not just their dignity that suffers: they are in danger of serious health problems,” said Oxfam America, the U.S. arm of the U.K.-based global development group. The group works for a “just world without poverty” and focuses on topics ranging from refugees in Greece to malnutrition.
The report cited unnamed workers from Tyson Foods Inc., Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., Perdue Farms Inc. and Sanderson Farms Inc. who said that supervisors mock them, ignore requests and threaten punishment or firing. When they can go, they wait in long lines even though they are given limited time, sometimes 10 minutes, according to the report. Some workers have urinated or defecated themselves while working because they can’t hold on any longer, the report said. Some workers “restrict intake of liquids and fluids to dangerous degrees,” Oxfam said.
Conditions for workers in the meat industry have been known as being notoriously poor since the days of Upton Sinclair, the American author who wrote of abuses in his 1906 novel, “The Jungle.” In a 2015 report, Oxfam said the cost of cheap chicken in the U.S. is workers who face low wages, suffer elevated rates of injury and illness and face a climate of fear in the workplace. The industry was also highlighted in the 2008 documentary Food Inc.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-11/poultry-workers-in-diapers-as-bathroom-breaks-denied-oxfam-says
“It’s not just their dignity that suffers: they are in danger of serious health problems,” said Oxfam America, the U.S. arm of the U.K.-based global development group. The group works for a “just world without poverty” and focuses on topics ranging from refugees in Greece to malnutrition.
The report cited unnamed workers from Tyson Foods Inc., Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., Perdue Farms Inc. and Sanderson Farms Inc. who said that supervisors mock them, ignore requests and threaten punishment or firing. When they can go, they wait in long lines even though they are given limited time, sometimes 10 minutes, according to the report. Some workers have urinated or defecated themselves while working because they can’t hold on any longer, the report said. Some workers “restrict intake of liquids and fluids to dangerous degrees,” Oxfam said.
Conditions for workers in the meat industry have been known as being notoriously poor since the days of Upton Sinclair, the American author who wrote of abuses in his 1906 novel, “The Jungle.” In a 2015 report, Oxfam said the cost of cheap chicken in the U.S. is workers who face low wages, suffer elevated rates of injury and illness and face a climate of fear in the workplace. The industry was also highlighted in the 2008 documentary Food Inc.
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May 12, 2016
HUFFPOLLSTER: Americans Don’t Think Clinton Or Trump Would Make A Good President
The public has little faith in either candidate.
VOTERS THINK BOTH HILLARY CLINTON AND DONALD TRUMP WOULD MAKE BAD PRESIDENTS - HuffPollster: “Just 27 percent of voters think Clinton would be a great or good president, while 17 percent think she’d be about average, and 54 percent say she’d be either poor or terrible. Trump fares about equally, with 30 percent saying he’d be great or good, 8 percent that he’d be average, and 53 percent that he’d do poorly or terribly.” [HuffPost]
A significant change from past elections - A December 2007 poll from Gallup and USA Today asking the same question found that Americans had significantly better impressions of then-candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. Forty-one percent of Americans thought McCain would be a great or good president, with 35 percent believing he’d be average and just 17 percent that he’d be poor or terrible. Obama scored even better ratings, with 51 percent saying he’d be good or great, 24 percent that he’d be average, and only 21 percent that he’d be poor or terrible. Even Clinton scored better in that survey, with just a third of voters believing she’d be a bad president.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bad-ratings_us_5731d2a6e4b0bc9cb047e596
Poll: 27 percent of voters think Clinton would be a good president
HUFFPOLLSTER: Americans Don’t Think Clinton Or Trump Would Make A Good President
The public has little faith in either candidate.
VOTERS THINK BOTH HILLARY CLINTON AND DONALD TRUMP WOULD MAKE BAD PRESIDENTS - HuffPollster: “Just 27 percent of voters think Clinton would be a great or good president, while 17 percent think she’d be about average, and 54 percent say she’d be either poor or terrible. Trump fares about equally, with 30 percent saying he’d be great or good, 8 percent that he’d be average, and 53 percent that he’d do poorly or terribly.” [HuffPost]
A significant change from past elections - A December 2007 poll from Gallup and USA Today asking the same question found that Americans had significantly better impressions of then-candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. Forty-one percent of Americans thought McCain would be a great or good president, with 35 percent believing he’d be average and just 17 percent that he’d be poor or terrible. Obama scored even better ratings, with 51 percent saying he’d be good or great, 24 percent that he’d be average, and only 21 percent that he’d be poor or terrible. Even Clinton scored better in that survey, with just a third of voters believing she’d be a bad president.
May 10, 2016
Lovely. Glad to know she's on the case with this health insurance emergency that we are still facing.
Hillary flip flops on public option twice within 2 minutes
Hillary might be looking into a public health insurance option for people 55 and up... She would like to get behind it, but there's just no data to support it, but if there were, heck it could be a good idea, she'll look into it. Translation: Not a snowball's chance in hell.
um....I'm also in favor of what's called the public option, so that people can buy into, ya know, Medicare above a certain age, which will then take a lot of the pressure off the cost because the argument is that costs go up because real world experience means that people are getting sicker or the costs have to be spread. I want to get behind that because I don't yet see the data to support that but if you were able to move people 55 or 50 and up who are the biggest users of health care into the Medicare program they would have to buy in but they would be buying in to such a big program that the costs would be, ya know, more distributed, so there's a lot of things I'm looking at to try to deal with exactly the problem you're talking about.
Lovely. Glad to know she's on the case with this health insurance emergency that we are still facing.
May 10, 2016
Also notice how she claims in here to be for a "public option", but then she gets sneaky with words and changes the meaning of the public option to mean she might look into the idea of lowering the age for Medicare to 55. While that's good, she's not even committing to it, only that she will look into it. Anyway that's not what most of us mean by a public option. It means a public insurance plan that anyone can buy into regardless of age.
Hillary has no answers for this woman whose health insurance went up $500/month
Surprisingly she didn't bring up 9-11
Also notice how she claims in here to be for a "public option", but then she gets sneaky with words and changes the meaning of the public option to mean she might look into the idea of lowering the age for Medicare to 55. While that's good, she's not even committing to it, only that she will look into it. Anyway that's not what most of us mean by a public option. It means a public insurance plan that anyone can buy into regardless of age.
May 10, 2016
Who's More Likely to Beat Donald Trump — Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders?
Hillary Clinton holds a 12-point lead over Bernie Sanders nationally, but in a hypothetical match-up against Donald Trump, Sanders does much better than the current Democratic front-runner.
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When respondents in our NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll were asked whether they would cast a vote for Trump or either of the Democratic candidates still in the race, Sanders is the favorite over Trump by 13 points.
Clinton also beats Trump, but the race is decidedly closer — 49 percent to 44 percent. These results are according to the latest from the NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll conducted online from May 2 through May 8 of 12,714 adults including 11,089 registered voters.
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more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/who-s-more-likely-beat-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-or-n570766
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When respondents in our NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll were asked whether they would cast a vote for Trump or either of the Democratic candidates still in the race, Sanders is the favorite over Trump by 13 points.
Clinton also beats Trump, but the race is decidedly closer — 49 percent to 44 percent. These results are according to the latest from the NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll conducted online from May 2 through May 8 of 12,714 adults including 11,089 registered voters.
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May 9, 2016
Conspiracy theory regarding the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
What if the people who talk about the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy are actually working for a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy?
Hiding in plain site, so to speak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vast_right-wing_conspiracy
May 9, 2016
Hillary supporters launch internet feud with Green Party candidate Jill Stein
Hillary Clinton supporters on the internet entered into an internet war of words on Mothers Day with Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein.
The feud started when Jill Stein issued a single Twitter comment suggesting Hillary Clinton would not reflect the values of motherhood as president. Dr. Stein explained she considers these values to include a commitment to international law and human rights, and to the idea of health care and child care as basic rights.
Clinton loyalists on Twitter leapt at the chance to feud and issued a barrage of tweets at Dr. Stein, some of which were widely seen as personal attacks, calling her "disgusting" and suggesting she might support far right GOP candidate Donald Trump.
It was widely reported in April that Clinton Super PACS have spent at least $1 million funding a "troll army" intended to protect the candidate's "reputation" online. It's not clear the extent to which paid operators might be engaging with the Green Party candidate on twitter.
The story made headlines on Mothers Day, with some headline writers interpreting Dr. Stein's tweet as a statement about Hillary Clinton's parenting skills.
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