The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    DC by 57%, it's wrap

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 12:43am |

    It's a wrap on DC with Hillary winning by a 57% margin - her 34th of 57 contests and 15th of the last 21. Her final popular vote is about 16.5 mill (2.2m in California alone), up by nearly 4 million over her opponent (a half million up in CA). The results include a 31-9 margin in primaries (including non-binding Washington and Nebraska).

    The map below pretty well sums it up - a romp in the park, took the gold. On to the convention.

     

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    Sanders still has not endorsed Hillary. Bernie wants the scalp of Wasserman Schultz at a minimum. He is scheduled to talk to his supporters via a teleconference on the 16th.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/clinton-sanders-agree-work...

    ​Edit to add: 

    While Senator Dunsail stays on the sidelines, Democrats (Obama, Clinton, Biden, and Warren) are having a field day attacking Trump. 


    by rmrd0000 on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 8:20am

    Sanders would like to get 'things done' in the Democratic Platform.

    He can then claim 'job done', return to his role in Congress as the righteous finger poking in the sky loner, who has achieved nothing in 25 years there.

    And blame the 'rigged system', 'big money' and 'the crooked establishment' when his fantasies are not 100% fulfilled.

    In a Congress which will have a sole objective of obstruction, claiming Hillary, as a Democrat, has no legitimate right to the office of President.


    by NCD on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 10:23am

    'Finger poking in the sky loner'. Sam Hodgson, NYT photographer, snapped this yesterday. This is not a Photoshop.

    See Bernie Wags His Finger A Lot

    “I think wagging a finger has an implications of shaming or pretend authority while waving arms is more expressive...I wish he’d do it less, it makes me think of Nixon.” ... Whatever the implications of the Vermont senator’s go-to maneuver, it’s clear that his supporters will follow wherever his finger leads them.


    by NCD on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 9:11pm

    Democrats are focusing on targeting racist Donald Trump

    Democrats in the Senate are filibustering over gun laws, led by Senator Chris Murphy, the former Congressman for the Sandy Hook area in Connecticut. Sanders weakness is gun laws. He did not support the lawsuit filed by. parents of Sandy Hook victims against the manufacturer of the AR-15, the same weapon used in Orlando.

    Democrats are actively addressing issues. Sanders is pointing his finger

    The longer Sanders refuses to endorse Hillary Clinton the more tarnished his reputation becomes.


    by rmrd0000 on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 11:28pm

    I was thinking about the repub situation.

    Fifteen or more candidates applying and The Orange Man survives. hahahahaha

    I liked Chafee and I liked O'Malley and I loved Bernie.

    Who the hell could not love Bernie? hahahah

    ​I would have voted for anyone of these guys.

    But I still love Hillary.

    Hillary has been lambasted and otherwise attacked more than any other candidate I can think of.

    This is, after all reality tv. hahahah

    T-Rump does not really know that there is no Afghan. hahahahah

    ​I mean there are Afghans and there is Afghanistan. hahahaha

    What is is, and what is not is not.

    Secretary Clinton has my vote.

    Not sure that she needs it.

    hahahahah

     

     


    by Richard Day on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 5:04pm

    What Hillary needs is your vote for democratic house and senate candidates. I don't doubt that you'll vote for them Richard, just a reminder for us all.


    by ocean-kat on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 5:12pm

    I was thinking about this issue also Ocean.

    Wisconsin and Ohio and Kansas and Oklahoma and....

    Let us hope for the best.

    Amy Klobuchar is up for re-election this year up here and I underlined to my son how important it is for us all to vote. Representative Nolan, who gave up much to unseat a teaparty idiot during the last election cycle, is up for election once again.

    Local is of real importance.

    Good point Ocean.


    by Richard Day on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 5:53pm

    While I was back in the South, I saw a sign hanging from a woman's desk, "A Woman's Place is in the House... and the Senate and the Oval Office." Voting for Hillary or Trump? Neither.


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/16/2016 - 12:56am

    I have no idea how to respond to this Peracles.

    But damn; a woman's place is in the House?

    hahhahahahahaha

    That is pretty gooooooooooooood. hahahah

    But I am voting for Hillary.

    And so are my kids.

    and....

    Well that is three votes anyway.

    hahahhaha


    by Richard Day on Thu, 06/16/2016 - 1:58am

    Hillary and the DNC hijacked our democratic process, our votes and our ability to vote.  Hillary supporters are too afraid to roll up the sleeves and take responsibility, to do the hard work it takes to purge the the system of oligarchy and extremism from the religious to the war mongers, etc... Let me put it this way, they wish to be led. And led they shall be, by the nose, they like it that way. Bye the bye not that alerting your attention will pang courage striving to erupt under culpable cowardice but, Hillary is a favorite daughter/sister/etc... from another mother, to the Bush crime family. Any whoo, let me now when you want to go to the adult table. Just kidding.

    ...


    by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 6:33pm