Clinton’s spokesman, Josh Schwerin responded, “It’s disappointing Sen”. Clinton topped the responses with 359, followed by Sanders with eight and O’Malley with 2; 210 were uncommitted. The two candidates are about even on regulating banks and financial institutions, while slightly more voters are very confident in Sanders when it comes to reducing the gap between the rich and poor.
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She’ll have to work hard to improve her image among Americans of all political persuasions.
Nationally, AP reporters reached out to all 712 superdelegates and heard back from 80 percent. O’Malley is mired in the mid-single digits in most polls.
That’s especially important for Sanders because the NYT/CBS poll suggested he has room to grow: About half of Democratic primary voters said it was still too early to say for sure who they would support.
Former Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Scott Brennan said the game is likely to pull people away from the debate, admitting he’d had to give up his own Hawkeyes tickets to go to the debate.
But Sanders has only recently started saying he’s a Democrat after a decades-long career in politics as an independent. While he’s met with and usually voted with Democrats in the Senate, he calls himself a democratic socialist.
According to the poll, Bernie Sanders’ supporters were more engaged in the race than Hillary Clinton supporters. 54 percent of Sanders’ voters said they were paying a lot of attention to the campaign, compared to just 38 percent of Clinton voters. Almost two in three think he could win.
In that election, Clinton hinged her campaign on an early knockout blow on Super Tuesday, while Obama’s staff had devised a strategy to accumulate delegates well into the spring. She’s also promised to “build on” President Barack Obama’s plan mandating greenhouse gas reductions from power plants, a sweeping new environmental regulation that may result in the closure of hundreds of coal-fired plants and freeze construction of new coal plants.
Fiorina spoke extensively about her support for a change to zero-based budgeting, in which federal agencies would have to defend all spending sought for a fiscal year.
What’s more, superdelegates have a greater importance than raw numbers.
“We’re still absolutely focused on [women’s] physical appearance in a way that male candidates are not”, American studies professor Janet Davis said. In June, Turner spoke at a grassroots-organizing event for the Clinton campaign in Cleveland.
Brad Larrison for NY Daily News “The roles have changed”.
Turner and Sanders’ presidential campaign confirmed the endorsement Thursday.
“I don’t think it matters very much”, said the URI history professor who will be discussing his new book Out of Sight next week – Wednesday, November 18 from 5:30 to 7:30 at AS220.
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“My experience in serving this nation is what makes me a unique candidate”, Brown said. “He has declared his standing as a Democratic candidate publicly, signed an affidavit, did so when he filed his declaration of candidacy”. He’s also increasingly focusing on her controversial use of a private e-mail server while serving as secretary of State. “She has been known to tell a few outright lies and I can’t tolerate that”.
