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March 10, 2016

The Right to Censor...





I remember when this used to be a group in WWE. I didn't realize they made a comeback on DU.

By all means, use the jury for this post and prove me right.
March 10, 2016

Hillary News & Views 3.10: The Univision Debate

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/10/1499068/-Hillary-News-Views-3-10-The-Univision-Debate

By Scan



Hi all, Scan here...Lysis needed a day off from HNV but should be back pronto. I’m going to keep it concise today and focus on the final (?) Democratic debate, which is mostly what everyone’s talking about anyway.

Politico reports on what everyone noticed...how tough the moderators were on the candidates.

Many Republicans view Univision as a hostile news organization, with its unapologetic pro-immigration reform stance and http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/univision-hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-117851ties to Hillary Clinton.
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But on Wednesday night the network's two top anchors, Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas, along with Washington Post correspondent Karen Tumulty, tried to shed that image, while also previewing what a potential general election debate might look like between Clinton and Donald Trump.

"Secretary Clinton, I want to disclose once again that my daughter Paula works for your campaign," Ramos said in his first question of the night before launching into a question about Clinton's use of a private email server.

"When you were secretary of state, you wrote 104 e-mails in your private server that the government now says contained classified information, according to The Washington Post analysis. That goes against a memo that you personally sent to your employees in 2011 directing all of them to use official e-mail, precisely because of the concerns. So it seems you issued one set of rules for yourself and a different set of rules for the rest of the State Department. So who specifically gave you permission to operate your e-mail system as you did? Was it President Barack Obama? And would you drop out of the race if you get indicted?"

Clinton gave the same answer she's been giving on her email use, which wasn't satisfactory for Ramos. He pressed Clinton to actually answer his questions, leading to one of the more memorable lines of the night in response to whether Clinton would drop out if she was indicted over her email use.

"Oh, that's not going to happen. I'm not even answering that question," she said.


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March 10, 2016

Even if every state goes Bernie the way MI did, Hillary wins the nomination! Time to count...

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/10/1499043/-Even-if-every-state-goes-Bernie-the-way-MI-did-Hillary-wins-the-nomination-Time-to-count

By Theshornwonder



At this point, Hillary gained 17 delegates on Tuesday after Michigan and Mississippi. Giving her a pledged delegate lead of 219 delegates; a lead bigger than any Obama had in 2008. She now leads Bernie by over 200 pledged delegates. That’s a gain even with the fake Michigan “game changer”. Bernie folks need to acknowledge this lead is essentially insurmountable unless Clinton quits given the proportional representation. Honest ones will, others will focus on “states” as if it matters now.

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March 10, 2016

When Bernie Sanders Thought Castro and the Sandinistas Could Teach America a Lesson

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/28/when-bernie-sanders-thought-castro-and-the-sandinistas-could-teach-america-a-lesson.html

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As mayor of Burlington, Sanders praised the regimes of Nicaragua and Cuba—claiming bread lines were a sign of economic health and press censorship was necessary in wartime.

After the ISIS-orchestrated bloodbath in Paris last November, CBS News informed the three Democratic presidential candidates that a forthcoming debate it was hosting would be shifting focus from domestic to foreign policy.

It seemed like an uncontroversial decision. But it was enough to send Bernie Sanders’s campaign into paroxysms of panic. During a conference call with debate organizers, one Sanders surrogate launched into a “heated” and “bizarre” protest, complaining that CBS was trying to “change the terms of the debate…on the day of the debate,” according to a Yahoo News source.

Still, the clamor from Bernie’s camp wasn’t that bizarre. Bernie understands that the frisson Sanderistas audiences experience isn’t activated by conversations about the Iran nuclear deal. No, Sanders disciples are slain in the spirit by repeated-ad-infinitum sermons about billionaires twisting mustaches, adjusting monocles, and jealously guarding their “rigged system.” It was this message that vaulted Sanders from the mayor’s office to Congress and into the Senate. But foreign-policy questions, The New York Times noted, had a habit of pushing him “out of his comfort zone.”

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March 8, 2016

Hillary Clinton's Lead Over Bernie Sanders Swells After Strong Super Tuesday, 55% - 38%!

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/8/1497933/-Hillary-Clinton-s-Lead-Over-Bernie-Sanders-Swells-After-Strong-Super-Tuesday-55-38

By First Amendment



+7 for Hillary since the last weekly NBC/SM national poll.

Clinton got a real nice bump after Super Tuesday!

www.nbcnews.com/…

Coming off of key Super Tuesday wins and a victory in the Louisiana primary, Hillary Clinton is up 4 points and Bernie Sanders dropped 3 points nationally in the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll.

This is the first large shift in our tracking poll since its debut in the first week of January. Clinton now enjoys a 17-point lead over Sanders headed into Michigan and Mississippi on Tuesday night. These results are from the latest Weekly Tracking Poll conducted online among a national sample of 21,996 adults, including 19,051 who say they are registered to vote.
Clinton maintains her status as the candidate who most Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters think will win the eventual nomination.




No change in regards to pledged delegates.

Hillary is still leading the pledged delegate count by +199, per FiveThirtyEight.

projects.fivethirtyeight.com/…


March 8, 2016

Hillary Clinton's Lead Over Bernie Sanders Swells After Strong Super Tuesday, 55% - 38%!

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/8/1497933/-Hillary-Clinton-s-Lead-Over-Bernie-Sanders-Swells-After-Strong-Super-Tuesday-55-38

By First Amendment



+7 for Hillary since the last weekly NBC/SM national poll.

Clinton got a real nice bump after Super Tuesday!

www.nbcnews.com/…

Coming off of key Super Tuesday wins and a victory in the Louisiana primary, Hillary Clinton is up 4 points and Bernie Sanders dropped 3 points nationally in the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll.

This is the first large shift in our tracking poll since its debut in the first week of January. Clinton now enjoys a 17-point lead over Sanders headed into Michigan and Mississippi on Tuesday night. These results are from the latest Weekly Tracking Poll conducted online among a national sample of 21,996 adults, including 19,051 who say they are registered to vote.
Clinton maintains her status as the candidate who most Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters think will win the eventual nomination.




No change in regards to pledged delegates.

Hillary is still leading the pledged delegate count by +199, per FiveThirtyEight.

projects.fivethirtyeight.com/…



March 8, 2016

Hillary News & Views 3.8: A Town Hall, A More Honest Campaign, More Debate Analysis

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/8/1497870/-Hillary-News-Views-3-8-A-Town-Hall-A-More-Honest-Campaign-More-Debate-Analysis

By Lysis



Today’s Hillary News & Views begins with coverage of yesterday’s Town Hall, hosted by Fox News, of all outlets.

Fox News has the transcript. Here are some of Clinton's responses.

On Libya:

Well, Bret, let's talk about it in context, and let's remember what was going on at the time. It was during the so-called Arab Spring. People in Libya who had been living under the dictatorship of Gadhafi for 42 years were rising up. And he, as we all can remember, was a ruthless dictator with American blood on his hands.

Ronald Reagan, as you recall, tried to take him out because of the danger he posed. And once it became clear to him that the people of Libya were trying to get more freedom and hopefully a better future, he basically said he was going to hunt them down like cockroaches.

The Europeans who had a lot more of a connection with Libya, going back many decades, were absolutely intent upon working with us with NATO. For the first time, Arab countries stepped up and said, we will work with NATO, because this man has paid for efforts to undermine us, assassinate our leaders, all around bad character.

So we did join with our European and Arab partners. He was overthrown.

And let's also remember that the Libyan people have voted twice in free and fair elections for moderate leaders, trying to get themselves to a better future. Now what has happened is deeply regrettable. There have been forces coming from the outside, internal squabbles that have led to the instability that has given terrorist groups, including ISIS, a foothold in some parts of Libya.

I think it's fair to say, however, if there had not been that intervention to go after Gadhafi, we would be looking at something much more resembling Syria now, than what we faced in Libya.


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March 7, 2016

Trump Helps Democrats As 9% Of Michigan GOP Will Vote For Clinton If Trump Wins

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/03/07/trump-helps-democrats-9-michigan-gop-vote-clinton-trump-wins.html

By Jason Easley

A poll of Michigan Republicans contained some devastating news for the GOP. If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, 9% of Republican voters will vote for Hillary Clinton in November.



A poll of Michigan Republicans contained some devastating news for the GOP. If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, 9% of Republican voters will vote for Hillary Clinton in November.

According to the new Monmouth University Poll, “If Trump emerges as the GOP nominee, 7-in-10 Michigan Republican primary voters (71%) say they would get behind him in a general election against Hillary Clinton. However, 9% would actually vote for Clinton. While the following responses were not offered in the poll question itself, 4% volunteer that they would vote 3rd party, 9% say they would not vote at all, and 7% are not sure what they would do.

There isn’t a single state that President Obama carried in 2012 that Donald Trump will be able to flip to the Republican column in 2016. The idea that Trump is any way electable is a myth that is being pushed by the mainstream press and Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton is getting more than Trump. Most of the increase in Republican turnout is coming from Republicans who are trying to stop Trump from winning his party’s nomination.

Contrary to what he states during his speeches, Donald Trump is not a uniter who will bring the Republican Party together. The truth is that Trump could push somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% of Republicans to cross over and vote for Hillary Clinton. A Trump nomination will cause many other Republican voters to stay home.

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March 7, 2016

Trump Helps Democrats As 9% Of Michigan GOP Will Vote For Clinton If Trump Wins

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/03/07/trump-helps-democrats-9-michigan-gop-vote-clinton-trump-wins.html

By Jason Easley

A poll of Michigan Republicans contained some devastating news for the GOP. If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, 9% of Republican voters will vote for Hillary Clinton in November.



A poll of Michigan Republicans contained some devastating news for the GOP. If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, 9% of Republican voters will vote for Hillary Clinton in November.

According to the new Monmouth University Poll, “If Trump emerges as the GOP nominee, 7-in-10 Michigan Republican primary voters (71%) say they would get behind him in a general election against Hillary Clinton. However, 9% would actually vote for Clinton. While the following responses were not offered in the poll question itself, 4% volunteer that they would vote 3rd party, 9% say they would not vote at all, and 7% are not sure what they would do.

There isn’t a single state that President Obama carried in 2012 that Donald Trump will be able to flip to the Republican column in 2016. The idea that Trump is any way electable is a myth that is being pushed by the mainstream press and Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton is getting more than Trump. Most of the increase in Republican turnout is coming from Republicans who are trying to stop Trump from winning his party’s nomination.

Contrary to what he states during his speeches, Donald Trump is not a uniter who will bring the Republican Party together. The truth is that Trump could push somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% of Republicans to cross over and vote for Hillary Clinton. A Trump nomination will cause many other Republican voters to stay home.

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