Bernie Sanders

[Dirk Oneanddoneski]

[boutons_deux]

An establishment (left or right) will never yield power without a fight. That's what we're seeing now.

Hillary owns the NY Dem machinery. 100s if not 1000s of erroneous or forged Dem registrations are being discovered, give rise to a class action suit. Those registrations weren't accidents. And when they are executed in low-population counties, they can throw the results.

And when the power is so imbalanced as it is kleptocratic, plutocratic, extreme-inequality America, any battels, war by the low-power Human-Americans is nearly hopeless.

aka, America is ed and un able.

[Reck]

LOL queen cersei.

[boutons_deux]

Why Republicans are eager to intervene in the Democratic race

Bloomberg Politics reported yesterday that Republican operatives “are chomping at the bit to face Sanders,” because they believe it would be easy to change the trajectory of those polls.

“Republicans are being nice to Bernie Sanders because we like the thought of running against a socialist. But if he were to win the nomination the knives would come out for Bernie pretty quick,” said Ryan Williams, a former spokesman for 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign. “There’s no mystery what the attack on him would be. Bernie Sanders is literally a card carrying socialist who honeymooned in the Soviet Union. There’d be hundreds of millions of dollars in Republican ads showing hammers and sickles and Soviet Union flags in front of Bernie Sanders.”

“Hillary Clinton is a much more centrist candidate in comparison,” Williams said, and she would have a better chance of winning over moderate and undecided voters, despite numerous polls showing that many Americans, even in the Democratic Party, don’t view her as honest and trustworthy. “Bernie’s numbers are better than hers right now because she’s been in the political arena for 30 years getting beat up,” he said.

Former RNC spokesperson Doug Heye added that Republicans look at some of Sanders’ success “with bemusement,” because they think it would be easy to define Sanders as “out of the mainstream.”

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

Repug "mainstream" MISgovernance has Repug Congress/SCOTUS ratings below dog .

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Democracy in That Shining Light on a Hill

New York’s Primary Is a Total Disaster

The New York primary is already rife with complaints of voter disenfranchisement in at least two different New York City boroughs.

The Cooper Park House polling location in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood was supposed to open at 6 a.m., but the site remained closed for hours, preventing early morning voters trying to cast their ballot before work hours from voting.

According to Twitter user@KeithRebecca, voters had been waiting outside for more than two hours for poll workers to open the doors.

@Kedesai382, who tried to vote in the early morning hours at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Terminal Senior Citizen Center, also reported that her polling station was closed nearly two hours after voting officially began.

Ben Kesselman of FiveThirtyEight.com also confirmed a delay in opening at his poll location.

At another Brooklyn polling station, a voter recorded poll worker Vitaliy Gazvants informing voters that both voting machines at the precinct were down, and that voters would have to cast paper ballots to be fed into a machine later on.

The precinct was originally supposed to have four voting machines, but the only two machines at the precinct were malfunctioning.

At one point, a man is heard telling the poll worker, “A piece of paper! You have to trust that somebody is going to enter it correctly.”

“It’s a recipe for disaster,” George Mack, who voted for Hillary Clinton, told the New York Daily News. “Somebody at the end of the day is gonna feed [the ballots] through a machine? I don’t have confidence in that.”

According to the New York Daily News, Queens voters also faced problematic voting machines at the P.S. 52 precinct in the Springfield Gardens neighborhood.

Queens Democrat George Mack told the News that he and approximately 50 other voters were told that all three of the precinct’s voting machines weren’t in working order and that they should fill out paper ballots as well.

These irregularities come on top of the news that approximately 126,000 voters were purged from the rolls in Kings County, which houses Brooklyn.

As US Uncut reported this morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio is demanding an explanation from the New York City Board of Elections as to why so many Democrats in the state’s most Democratic-leaning county were taken off the voter rolls.

The state agency overseeing elections has yet to provide a definitive explanation for the purge.

Other irregularities plaguing the New York primary include the changing of voters’ party affiliation without their consent, even apparent forged signatures on forms changing party affiliation from “Democrat” to “Other” or “Republican.”

Because New York is a closed primary state, these voters are unable to cast their ballots in today’s primary, despite being previously registered as Democrats.

Other strange irregularities and inconsistencies have been reported, including this anecdote shared by Shaun King, noted activist and reporter with the New York Daily News.

http://usuncut.com/politics/new-york-primary-disaster/

[DMX7]

Sanders is toast in NY.

[CosmicCowboy]

Bernie getting Berned bigtime.

[boutons_deux]

Just wait for november when the Repug candidate will lose by 15+ points.

Hillary owns the NY Dem machine.

NY is closed primary. Independents would probably put Bernie over the top.

[Reck]

Sanders is toast in NY.

Bernie getting Berned bigtime.

Where are you guys getting this indication? Any exit polls out already?

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Surprise! Author of viral ‘Becoming Anti-Bernie’ piece is corporate lawyer who defends hedge funds


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/surp...e+Raw+Story%29

After BigFinance made her and Slick Willie wealthy, she wouldn't dare touch carried interest.

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New York’s Mayor Responds as Brooklyn Voter Purge Doubles to 126,000

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is demanding an explanation from the city’s Board of Elections after the purge of registered Democrats in Brooklyn has doubled from 63,000 to 126,000.

As US Uncut previously reported, Kings County, where Brooklyn is located, has seen a 7 percent drop in the number of registered Democratic voters between November 2015 and April 2016. But a new investigation by WNYC has revealed that the New York City Board of Elections actually purged 126,000 voters in that time period — a 14 percent drop in 5 months. Now, Mayor de Blasio is demanding to know why there was such a precipitous drop in registered voters just before the primary.

“This number surprises me,” de Blasio told WNYC. “I admit that Brooklyn has had a lot of transient population – that’s obvious. Lot of people moving in, lot of people moving out. That might account for some of it. But I’m confused since so many people have moved in, that the number would move that much in the negative direction.”

Kings County was just one of seven counties, out of a total of 63, where the number of registered Democrats fell, while registration increased in all other 56 counties. This is particularly odd, since Brooklyn — the home of Bernie Sanders, as well as the home of Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters — is a hotbed of political activity.

The New York City Board of Elections claims the number is explained by 12,000 voters moving out of the borough, 44,000 voters moved from “active” to “inactive” voter lists (by having not voted in four years or more), and 70,000 voters being taken off the “inactive” list. Michael Ryan, executive director of the city Board of Elections, said the reason Kings County has such a dramatic drop in the number of registered voters is due to election officials in Brooklyn being six months to a year behind updating voter rolls, due to elections.

“When there is an election event, work stops getting done,” Ryan told WNYC.

A New York voter has launched a pe ion on MoveOn.org demanding the New York State Board of Elections investigate the voter purge. As of this writing, it has almost 30,000 signatures.

http://usuncut.com/politics/nyc-mayo...n-voter-purge/

Hillary's NY machine and DNC doing work.

[Reck]

Hillary's NY machine and DNC doing work.

Are you re ed? This hurts her more so than it hurts Bernie. This aren't independents, they are actual democrats.

[CosmicCowboy]

Where are you guys getting this indication? Any exit polls out already?

Exit polls are certainly leaning Clinton. Bernie outspent her 2 to 1 and is already acknowledging he will probably lose New York

[spurraider21]

[z0sa]

Are you re ed? This hurts her more so than it hurts Bernie. This aren't independents, they are actual democrats.

Lol this is the primary, not the general, which means it is very very good for Clinton, as most of Bernies supporters come from people who made up their minds much more recently. Clinton wants exactly what you just said, low voter turnout of all partyliners like yourself who knew they were going to vote her in 10 months ago.

Dems cant really talk about voter disenfranchising to republicans the same way again after this, tbh.

[spurraider21]

Lol this is the primary, not the general, which means it is very very good for Clinton, as most of Bernies supporters come from people who made up their minds much more recently. Clinton wants exactly what you just said, low voter turnout of all partyliners like yourself who knew they were going to vote her in 10 months ago.

Dems cant really talk about voter disenfranchising to republicans the same way again after this, tbh.

they will though

[z0sa]

they will though

lol so true, and will explain it away by saying the repub is policy, or much more widespread, etc as if that reprieves them of all guilt

[DMX7]

I was a proud lifelong democrat until this primary. Ask yourself this -- who would FDR, our greatest democratic president, vote for? Anyone seriously think it would be Hillary?

[DMX7]

Just wait for november when the Repug candidate will lose by 15+ points.

Hillary owns the NY Dem machine.

NY is closed primary. Independents would probably put Bernie over the top.

Not only that, but registration ended so early that it hurt Bernie's chances to get more people who might not have originally intended to vote (like young people) to vote.

[SnakeBoy]

Bye Bye Bernie

[SnakeBoy]

Bernie ditched his press corp and and took an unscheduled flight back to Vermont to "recharge".

[spurraider21]

[z0sa]

Not only that, but registration ended so early that it hurt Bernie's chances to get more people who might not have originally intended to vote (like young people) to vote.

That's way way worse than the 125k having their status altered (though still extraordi arily bad in its own right). Hillary had this state from day 1 thanks to purposeful and intentional voter disenfranchisement.

[Reck]

Has it always been like this? Have you had to registered as early as October in elections past?

I do know that this only affected independents only. If you are a new voter you could have registered as late as March 25th of this year. If you are a new voter that wanted to get involved in this election and still was late then that was entirely your fault.

I get that independents wanted to vote and all but being that this state has been closed primaries for years I don't know why they're whining now. if you want to vote, be a democrat or republican because let's not forget folks, the republicans have the SAME exact rules.

So who takes blame for that? I supposed the DNC as well?

Now that 126k people who got purged, that's a whole other issue and I hope that gets sorted quick.

[rmt]

The early registering must be a New York thing. 2 of Trump's kids couldn't vote for him because they didn't switch from Independent to Republican early enough.