State Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, who has also actively promoted the former first lady’s campaign, helped organize the carpool of local Clinton supporters, which left Springfield’s Basketball Hall of Fame early Sunday to canvass before the Super Bowl.
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Clinton leads Sanders 48 percent to 45 percent among Democratic voters, according to the poll of 512 Americans, conducted February 2-5 following the Iowa caucus.
“I just bought it out front, I couldn’t wait to put it on”, Roberts said of her new “Feel the Bern” shirt.
“Hillary Clinton fatigue – that’s part of what I’m feeling”, said Elise deMichael, 67, a Democratic activist from Milford, N.H. In a recent memo to donors, Mook singled out Alabama, Georgia and Texas, saying he expected more than half of Democratic primary voters in those states to be minorities.
It wasn’t until midday Tuesday that television news channels officially declared Hillary Clinton the victor of last week’s Iowa caucus.
Hillary Clinton is detouring from New Hampshire to Flint, Michigan, on Sunday for a quick visit. He also successfully negotiated to hold another debate in California, which awards a large cache of delegates in its June primary.
Hillary Clinton at a get-out-the-vote event Saturday at Rundlett Middle School in Concord, New Hampshire. Clinton’s advisers often point out how hard it was for President Barack Obama to convince a Democratic-led Congress to support the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
The presidential contender maintained that she had “the greatest respect for Sen”. While New Hampshire is fickle with polls, Sanders is facing strong expectations for a big win on Tuesday. “She has locked up the whole political establishment in this state”. Whenever Hillary reminds us that she is, in fact, a woman, I can’t help feeling condescended to.
At least two other factors could tip the balance in Sanders’ favor this time, observers say. Stations will then transition to full coverage in the mid-late evening hours as results begin to come in.
“What I had just said on the same show was the opposite: young women are active, mad as hell about what’s happening to them, graduating in debt, but averaging a million dollars less over their lifetimes to pay it back”, she continued. In comparison, Clinton has nearly total name recognition among voters.
“The concoction of the “Bernie Bro” narrative by pro-Clinton journalists has been a potent political tactic – and a journalistic disgrace”. He’s aired about $1.6 million in ads in Nevada where Clinton has spent about $1 million so far.
Aiming to tamp down some of the online trolling, which has been chronicled by prominent women progressives like Joan Walsh, Mike Casca, Sanders’ director of rapid response, tweeted last month: “If you support @berniesanders please follow the senator’s lead and be respectful when people disagree with you”. All of that is so very basic to the idea of campaigning and democracy that it’s actually rather sad that it must be said.
“She’s bringing her case directly to the people and my hope is that the undecided voters will break her way”, he said in an interview.
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Clinton said that access to clean water is “not optional”. And any sort of entitled claim that certain votes belong to certain candidates are inherently disrespectful and open the people and campaigns that lean upon them to reasonable ridicule.
