1) Denial - there's no way this can be happening. Bernie really won New York if you don't count Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and Long Island. Just look at the returns from Jamestown and Elmira.
2) Anger - it's all Debbie Wasserman Schultz's fault.
3) Bargaining - if we just win the District of Columbia on June 14, the super delegates will abandon Hillary en masse.
4) Depression - man this sucks let's move to Canada.
"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her senior aides did not comply with the State Department’s record-keeping policies, an internal watchdog determined in a report sent to Capitol Hill on Wednesday."
The bursting of the tech bubble in 2000, and the subsequent recession, revealed that the 1990s boom was, at least to some degree, a mirage, the result of cheap money and, in then-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan’s famous phrase, “irrational exuberance.” The recession that followed the tech bust, however, was relatively mild. If that were the worst consequence of the Clinton era, it might seem a small price to pay for a decade of solid growth.
Unions representing construction and manufacturing workers may not line up behind Hillary Clinton and down ballot Democrats in the general election. Clinton's opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline and an announced partnership between three unions representing government employees and environmentalist Tom Steyer have incensed some labor leaders and their rank and file. White-collar unions and the green billionaire have created the "For Our Future" super Pac in hopes of raising $50 million to help defeat Trump and Republican candidates in November.
"'The problem is us' in the sense that liberalism is dominated by a certain class outlook and that I am part of that class. I am calling on other members of that class to look in the mirror and understand who they are -- that they are just as much products of their economic position as are the blue-collar workers they so hate. In particular, I am calling on them to understand that they aren't the fine and virtuous people they believe they are.
Hillary Clinton is the odds-on favorite to succeed Barack Obama as President. Despite historically high unfavorable ratings and being the ultimate insider in the year of the outsider, the prize remains hers for the taking. The electorate dislikes Donald Trump even more and the vagaries of the electoral college in recent years bespeak a pro-Democratic bias.
But the road to the White House will not be smooth for Clinton. Trump the Insult Reality Show Politician ran roughshod over the Republican field and is now training all his fire on "Crooked Hillary." Meanwhile, she has yet to dispatch the still-dangerous, albeit mortally wounded, Bernie Sanders.
Good strong article. The author sees bigger differences between corporate dems and corporate cons than I do but I agree completely with his conclusion.
I was never so wrong about a guy. For a while there, I really thought Shaun King was a jackass. Turns out he's awesome.
Key line:
"I believe many independent voters will stay at home if Bernie Sanders isn't a candidate. It will be up to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party to win them over, but they've expressed very little interest in such a thing thus far."
A year ago political insiders expected Hillary Clinton to waltz to the Democratic nomination. Last July, Five Thirty Eight's Nate Silver opined Clinton might well win every primary except the first two. Things didn't turn out quite that way.
Clinton had to weather a surprisingly strong primary challenge from a self-described democratic socialist. Weather it she did thanks to overwhelming support from both "strong" and "weak" Democrats. Anxious moments came courtesy of "independent Democrats," among whom Bernie Sanders has a 10 point edge, and independents who prefer Sanders by a 5 to 1 margin. Young voters, those least likely to register with either major party, have mostly abandoned Clinton. The under-30 cohort favors Sanders by more than 3 to 1.
Tisch Sussman's father Donald Sussman has a net worth in excess of $900 million. Her grandmother's even luckier. Her total assets are valued at over $2.5 billion.
Goliath has won. Barring something truly extraordinary or tragedy, the Democratic presidential nominee will not be Bernie Sanders. Not only does Hillary Clinton have a nearly unassailable advantage in pledged delegates and the support of the vast majority of super delegates, she is ahead in the few states which still haven't held primaries and which she needn't win in any event. Under these circumstances, it does not behoove progressives to engage in magical thinking.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) said members of the Congressional Black Caucus have spoken to Clinton about anti-poverty legislation sponsored by Rep. James Clyburn, who delivered a crucial endorsement for the former secretary of State in the days before her big win in South Carolina’s primary.
“She has said that she will support that strongly, and we think she’ll have a strong chance of getting that through,” Cleaver said in an interview with The Hill, adding that Clinton “embraced it quickly, which is extremely important to us.”
My mother lived in the small town of Mt. Gilead, North Carolina during the Jim Crow era. Statistics show that in order for Bernie Sanders to win or close the gap with Hillary Clinton in the upcoming southern primaries and beyond, he must appeal to African American women, particularly older ones—much like my mother.
