April 27, 2016

benchmarkpol make a call - Clinton will win Delaware, potentially by LARGE margins

We are ready to make a call. Clinton will win Delaware, potentially by LARGE margins. Margin call to come when precincts reporting are 15%.

https://twitter.com/benchmarkpol

April 27, 2016

Clinton still underperforming though in RI - Might be a Sanders win

https://twitter.com/benchmarkpol

April 27, 2016

CT looking good for Clinton now BEATING Benchmarks in Hartford and Fairfield.

CT is looking pretty good for Clinton right now, we may call it for her soon.

https://twitter.com/benchmarkpol

April 27, 2016

RCP: Clinton gets 46 delegates in Maryland. Sanders get 17.

April 26, 2016

Top Dem official: turnout strong in Philadelphia, particularly in areas w/large aa voter groups

A top Dem official tells me so far turnout is strong in Philadelphia, particularly in areas w/ large African American populations

https://twitter.com/kwelkernbc/status/725029896473423873

April 26, 2016

Slate: Polls Say Bernie Is More Electable Than Hillary. Don’t Believe Them.

What they really show is a candidate who hasn’t been attacked.

Basically, if you were designing the perfect target for Republicans—a candidate who proudly links socialist economics to hippie culture, libertinism, left-wing foreign policy, new-age nonsense, and contempt for bourgeois values—you’d create Bernie Sanders. Clinton could have attacked these weaknesses in the primary—her supporters had an opposition research file on Sanders’ “associations with communism”—but she didn’t. In a general election, Republicans wouldn’t hesitate.


Would a GOP assault along these lines hurt Sanders? Absolutely. Start with his spending plans. Two months ago, an Associated Press-GfK poll asked Americans about Sanders’ proposal to replace “the private health insurance system … with a single government-run and taxpayer-funded plan” that “would cover medical, dental, vision, and long-term care services.” A 39 percent plurality favored the idea. Then the poll asked people whether they’d still support the plan if it meant “your own taxes would increase.” Suddenly, the plurality disappeared: Only 28 percent still favored the plan; 39 percent opposed it. When the poll mentioned that people would have to “give up other coverage like employer coverage” as part of the government-run system, again, 39 percent opposed it, while only 28 percent supported it.


Surveys by Vox and Morning Consult got similar results. In late January, 54 percent of registered voters said they would support “a single-payer health care system, in which all Americans would get their health insurance from one government plan that is financed by taxes.” Fifty-eight percent said they would support “the government using taxes to pay tuition at public colleges and universities in order to make college free for students.” But in April, when the same pollster asked voters how much they were willing to pay each year in additional federal taxes to fund these programs, only 15 percent and 17 percent, respectively, were willing to pay more than $1,000 for the health care plan and the free college system. “That’s well short of how much more the average taxpayer would pay under [Sanders’] tax plan,” Vox noted.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/polls_say_bernie_is_more_electable_than_hillary_don_t_believe_them.html

April 26, 2016

Jane Sanders on CNN. Sanders will NOT run as an independent if he’s not the dem nominee

April 26, 2016

Clinton: If elected, women would make up half my Cabinet

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/277613-clinton-if-elected-women-would-make-up-half-my-cabinet

Hillary Clinton said Monday said if she's elected president, women would make up half of her Cabinet.

“Well, I am going to have a Cabinet that looks like America, and 50 percent of America is women,” Clinton said during an MSNBC town hall.

Clinton has made issues pertaining to women — including pay equity and reproductive rights — a pinnacle of her campaign.

April 26, 2016

YES !!!! NBC News/SurveyMonkey national poll: Clinton 52 (+2), Sanders 42 (-1)

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-clinton-builds-lead-over-sanders-nationally-n562046

The NBC News|SurveyMonkey poll was conducted online from April 18 to April 24 of 10,707 adults aged 18 and over.

April 26, 2016

Bombshell Poll: Nearly 20% Of Republicans Will Vote For Hillary Clinton If Trump Wins

A new Suffolk University poll has found that 19% of Republicans say they will support Hillary Clinton if Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/04/25/bombshell-poll-20-republicans-vote-hillary-clinton-trump-wins.html

Even Rush Limbaugh confirms this.

http://www.teaparty.org/limbaugh-gop-will-vote-hillary-keep-power-159284/

Daily Caller) – Rush Limbaugh says that instead of voting for Donald Trump, “The Republican establishment is prepared to vote for Hillary Clinton if it means holding onto their fiefdoms.”

During “The Rush Limbaugh Show” on Monday, Limbaugh said, “The Republican Party is prepared, if Ted Cruz gets the nomination, to not care whether he wins or loses.”

Reiterating a question that he received from a caller, Limbaugh said, “If the guy gets close to 1,237 but still has the majority in delegates, and they take the nomination away from him, we’re gonna lose the voters, right? What’s gonna happen? Folks — Patience. Patience, Rush. The Republican establishment is prepared to vote for Hillary Clinton if it means holding onto their fiefdoms.”