Bernie Sanders

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American voters shift to Clinton as the Democrat gains ground against Republicans:

47 - 41 percent over Trump, compared to 46 - 43 percent November 4; Clinton at 45 percent to Rubio's 44 percent, compared to a 46 - 41 percent Rubio lead last month; Clinton tops Cruz 47 - 42 percent, compared to Cruz at 46 percent to Clinton's 43 percent last month; Clinton at 46 percent to Carson's 43 percent compared to Carson's 50 - 40 percent lead last month.

Sanders does just as well, or even better, against top Republicans:

Topping Trump 49 - 41 percent; Getting 44 percent to Rubio's 43 percent; Beating Cruz 49 - 39 percent; Leading Carson 47 - 41 percent. http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-e...ReleaseID=2307

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Media Blackout Bombs As Bernie Sanders Has More Support Than Every GOP Candidate In Iowa



The media has been blacking out the message of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, but the numbers don’t lie. Sanders has more support in Iowa than every single Republican presidential candidate.

In the new Iowa Poll released by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics, Sen. Bernie Sanders had eight points more support than the highest polling Republican presidential candidate.

Sanders trailed Hillary Clinton 48%-39% in the latest poll, but his level of support was eight points higher than Ted Cruz (31%) and ten points higher than media darling Donald Trump (21%).

Sen. Sanders has nearly twice the level of support that Trump has in Iowa but has gotten thirty times less coverage on the network news broadcasts.

Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said, “We have come a long way in Iowa since we were at 5 percent in the same poll last January and very few people knew who Bernie Sanders was or what he stood for.

This poll shows there is a very clear path to victory in Iowa.”Bernie Sanders has come a long way in a very short period of time.

His 80% approval rating trails Hillary Clinton by two points and President Obama by seven points. Sanders has quickly risen to be one of the most popular figures within the Democratic Party.

The Sanders approval rating is higher than all of the Republican presidential candidates. Sanders’ approval rating is seven points higher than Ted Cruz(73%), ten points higher than Marco Rubio (70%), and 22 points higher than Donald Trump (58%).

The network news decision to ignore the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders has been a major miscalculation. Sanders has developed into one of the most popular candidates in the entire country, and he exponentially more popular than every single Republican contender that the nightly news broadcasts on ABC, NBC, and CBS waste their airtime on.

The corporate network news blackout of Sanders campaign is not working.

The message is spreading. Iowa is the perfect state for a political revolutionary to spread his message about income inequality, and the influence of corporations and billionaires who are trying to buy the federal government.

Network news has chosen to ignore Sen. Bernie Sanders, but his message is spreading across the country.

The message can’t be stopped, and it is the reason why the messenger from Vermont has more support than all of the Republican presidential candidates in Iowa.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/12/...iticus+USA+%29

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Poll: Clinton adds to lead in Iowa

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton added 4 points to her lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the race for the 2016 nomination among Iowa voters, according to a new poll.

Clinton now has a 9-point lead over Sanders in that state, 48 to 39 percent, according to the Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register survey. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley ranks third, with 4 percent. About 6 percent remain uncommitted, while 2 percent are not sure.Clinton receives higher marks than Sanders in rankings of multiple leadership qualities.

About 60 percent say she has the most appropriate life experience for that role, versus 29 percent for Sanders.

Approximately 55 percent, meanwhile, believe Clinton would make the best commander in chief, contrasted with 28 percent for Sanders.

And roughly 49 percent picked Clinton as having the best temperament for the presidency and about 45 percent say she would work most effectively with Congress.

But Sanders edges out Clinton in several ratings of relatability, pollsters added.

About 49 percent say he cares the most about people like the respondents, versus 38 percent for Clinton.

Approximately 56 percent also said he would fight the hardest for the middle class, contrasted with 36 percent for the former secretary of State.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/263094-poll-clinton-grows-her-lead-over-sanders-in-iowa

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'Socialism' the most looked-up word of 2015 on Merriam-Webster

http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...bernie-sanders

and people found out that Bernie isn't a classic socialist AT ALL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

He's social democrat or democratic socialist who wants a govt that serves all of society, not just the 1% and BigCorp.

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Sanders won't go away, getting endorsements, so the blatanly biased, pro-Clinton Wasserman-Schultz trying to take Sanders down

DNC: Sanders campaign improperly accessed Clinton voter data

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ushpmg00000003

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See, Sanders backed Hillary on E-mails at the debate, hurting himself, and then she threw him under the bus (but failed). Disloyal person!

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[baseline bum]

As much as I think Sanders would be a far superior president to Clinton, he's not going to raise the money she will and thus he's not electable. Best case scenario is the gets elected so we have someone to veto all the re ed crap coming out of the house.

[Dirk Oneanddoneski]

is it just me or is Trump starting to grow on boutons?

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Bernie SCHLONGS Donny T!

In blockbuster poll, Sanders destroys Trump by 13 points

Stop the presses! According to a new poll by Quinnipiac University on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) destroys Republican candidate Donald Trump in a general election by 13 percentage points.

In this new poll, Sanders has 51 percent to Trump's 38 percent. If this margin held in a general election, Democrats would almost certainly regain control of the United States Senate and very possibly the House of Representatives.

It is high time and long overdue for television networks such as CNN to end their obsession with Trump and report the all-important fact that in most polls, both Hillary Clinton and Sanders would defeat Trump by landslide margins. In the new Quinnipiac poll, Clinton would defeat Trump by 7 percentage points, which is itself impressive and would qualify as a landslide, while the Sanders lead of 13 points would bring a landslide of epic proportions.

It is noteworthy that in this Quinnipiac poll, Sanders runs so much stronger than Clinton against Trump. It is also noteworthy and important that both Sanders and Clinton run so far ahead of Trump in general election match-up polling.

And it is profoundly important and revealing that Sanders would defeat Trump by such a huge margin — 13 points in this poll — that analysts would be talking about a national political realignment and new progressive era in American history if an enlightened candidate such as Sanders would defeat a retrograde race-baiting candidate such as Trump by a potentially epic and historic margin.

It is time for the mainstream media to end their obsession with Trump and their virtual news blackout of the Sanders campaign when discussing presidential campaign polling.

How about, from now on, when any analyst on television discusses how strong Trump allegedly is, that it be emphasized that this strength is only within the GOP, and that in a general election, the real heavyweight champion of presidential polling is Bernie Sanders, not Donald Trump!

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blo...ys-trump-by-13

Looks like the Hillary + Wasserman-Schultz strategy of burying, hiding Bernie with Sat night debates, and only a few debates. The last 3 debates are on a Sun, Thu, Wed

http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016-debate-schedule/2016-democratic-primary-debate-schedule/

[Dirk Oneanddoneski]

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The Kochs Worst Nightmares Come True As Bernie Sanders Smashes Fundraising Records

The presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders announced that they have set a new all-time record with more than 2.5 million donations from more than a million Americans in 2015.The Sanders campaign broke down the data a statement:

The 2,513,665 donations to Sanders’ campaign broke the record set four years ago by President Barack Obama’s re-election committee. Through Dec. 31, 2011, Obama had chalked up 2,209,636 donations.The more than 1 million donors to Sanders also is a milestone unmatched by any first-time White House candidate. Obama’s millionth donor in his 2008 campaign came on Feb. 27 of that election year. (In the next election cycle, the in bent president’s re-election campaign hit the 1-million- donors mark on Oct. 17, 2011.)

Unlike other campaigns, small contributions made up the vast majority of all the money Sanders’ campaign raised. The average donation to Sanders during the past three months was $27.16.

All told, Sanders supporters gave $33,281,952 during the Federal Election Commission reporting period that ended at midnight on New Year’s Eve. Secretary Clinton’s campaign announced on Friday that she raised $37 million in the last quarter for use in the Democratic primary. The total for Sanders far surpassed donations in either of the previous two quarters of his eight-month long campaign and brought the fundraising total for 2015 to $72.8 million. Sanders ended the year with $28.4 million cash on hand.

Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver added, “This people-powered campaign is revolutionizing American politics,” said Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager. “What we are showing is that we can run a strong, national campaign without a super PAC and without depending on millionaires and billionaires for their support. We are making history and we are proud of it.”

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/01/...iticus+USA+%29

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Bernie Sanders vs. the world: How the political & media elite are trying to set him up to fail

Politics, reporters intone, is now all about national security. And that’s mandatory. Political figures who persist in insisting that Americans do or should care about anything else will be declared out of touch. Irrelevant.

“Bernie Sanders Falls Behind in a Race Centered on Security,” the New York Times headline announced, seemingly unaware of their pivotal role in centering the race.
Hillary Clinton is a longtime supporter of the sort of militaristic foreign policy adventures that help to foment terrorism. Nonetheless, the Times reports, “all of this plays to Mrs. Clinton’s strengths — not only as a hawkish former secretary of state but also as a savvy politician who follows the public mood.”
This media diktat was first issued after Paris and had become conventional wisdom by the time a disaffected and ISIS-inspired county worker and his wife shot down coworkers in San Bernardino. Sanders has disobeyed orders, maintaining that poverty and global warming are the greatest threat to Americans. That this has the virtue of being true does not impress the arbiters of consensus political wisdom.

“In his opening remarks at the Democratic presidential debate on Saturday, Senator Bernie Sanders railed against ‘establishment politics and establishment economics’ and then the nation’s ‘rigged economy.’ He moved on to the ‘corrupt’ campaign finance system, then the ‘planetary crisis of climate change,'” the Times yawned. “Only after that did he say he wanted to destroy the Islamic State. It was a litany of priorities that made good sense when Mr. Sanders announced his presidential bid in April. But after the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., he made fighting terrorism sound like an afterthought.”



History, in the guise of political reporting, is repeating itself. It’s both farcical and terrifying.

It was recently reported reported that ABC’s “World News Tonight” devoted 81 minutes to covering the Trump campaign this year compared to just about 20 seconds on Sanders. The media is unimpressed by these findings.

The horse race approach blows Trump’s frightening bigotry out of proportion, encouraging people both here and abroad to falsely conclude that Americans are far worse than they actually are. A large minority of Americans believe that Muslims should be barred from entering the country. That’s scary.

But more than a third of young people, according to a YouGov survey, view socialism favorably.

rising public fears over terrorism plays to Clinton’s advantage. But that narrative is also a creature of a media echo chamber that makes the Washington consensus into an historical inevitability.

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/21/bern...him_up_to_fail

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The vital Bernie Sanders proposal that no one’s talking about — including Bernie

Sanders has made criminal justice reform an issue this campaign. One of his proposals deserves more attention

Bernie Sanders has made a pledge to abolish private prisons in the federal system a centerpiece of his criminal justice reform platform, expounding on it in speeches, tweets and a bill that he introduced in the Senate. “The profit motivation of private companies running prisons works at cross purposes with the goals of criminal justice,” Sanders said, according to USA Today. “Criminal justice and public safety are without a doubt the responsibility of the citizens of our country, not private corporations. They should be carried out by those who answer to voters, not those who answer to investors.”

What people, including Sanders, don’t mention about the bill is that it does something far more radical as well: It would reestablish federal parole, the abolition of which three decades ago was a key ingredient in fueling the explosive growth of the American prison system.

Two key factors have driven prison population growth since the 1980s.

One is the length of sentences, which where were increased by measures like the passage of harsh mandatory minimums for drug offenses and tough sentencing guidelines imposed on judges.

Another is the percentage of those sentences that a prisoner actually serves, which the abolition of parole greatly extended. Inmates would thenceforth serve the near entirety of their sentence—a so-called determinate sentence—aside from a maximum of 15-percent reduced for good behavior.

Parole eligibility was abolished for all those convicted of committing a federal crime on or after November 1, 1987 as a result of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. The impact was swift and severe. Those entering prison in 1996 could expect to serve 87 percent of their sentences behind bars, compared with 58 percent a decade earlier,”

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/04/the_...luding_bernie/

And of course the '84, and '87 laws were racist Repug laws, and of course, screwed blacks the most.

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Bernie Sanders makes the case for banking at post offices

“[We] need to give Americans affordable banking options. The reality is that, unbelievably, millions of low-income Americans live in communities where there are no normal banking services. Today, if you live in a low-income community and you need to cash a check or get a loan to pay for a car repair or a medical emergency, where do you go?

“You go to a payday lender who could charge an interest rate of over 300 percent and trap you into a vicious cycle of debt. That is unacceptable.

“We need to stop payday lenders from ripping off millions of Americans. Post offices exist in almost every community in our country. One important way to provide decent banking opportunities for low income communities is to allow the U.S. Postal Service to engage in basic banking services, and that’s what I will fight for.”

To be sure, as Sanders supporters know, this isn’t exactly a new part of his policy platform. But it’s a really interesting idea that’s worth broader consideration.

Sanders has a much better idea: let’s not only keep post offices, let’s also expand the role they can play in a community.

The Atlantic had a good piece on this in the fall:

…Sanders’s idea is quite sensible. “Postal banking” – which just means that post offices run savings accounts, cash checks, and perform other basic financial services – is common in most of Asia and Europe, and only about 7 percent of the world’s national postal systems don’t offer some bank-like services. Postal banking is a really good way to reach people who haven’t had access to standard savings accounts. One estimate figures that more than 1 billion people have used post offices for making deposits.

The reason why this would be so useful in the U.S. is that somewhere between 20 and 40 percent of the population has to rely on check-cashing or payday-lending services, which in some places charge usurious rates that send people into spirals of recurring debt.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/bernie-sanders-makes-the-case-banking-post-offices?cid=eml_mra_20160106

Reports are that blacks will go for Clinton, so Bernie has to get them the message that his non-black-specific policies that help all poor people will help the blacks and browns the most.

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How dare those robber-baron banks charge a small fee to use a service that requires electricity and maintenance to run!

[Th'Pusher]

How dare those robber-baron banks charge a small fee to use a service that requires electricity and maintenance to run!

You're such a moron Godord. You realize ATM Machines reduce cost of labor for banks. Still, are you actually suggesting banks aren't making significant margins on transaction fees? I don't have the analysis at hand, but I seem to recall the average cost per transaction being ~$.17.

[CosmicCowboy]

the US Postal Service does such a great job delivering mail efficiently I can't wait to see how they do as bankers.

[Th'Pusher]

the US Postal Service does such a great job delivering mail efficiently I can't wait to see how they do as bankers.

I can tell you that if banks ran the postal service, stamps would cost $9 and there would be additional fees for front door delivery.

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the US Postal Service does such a great job delivering mail efficiently I can't wait to see how they do as bankers.

evidence-free, as always

[CosmicCowboy]

I can tell you that if banks ran the postal service, stamps would cost $9 and there would be additional fees for front door delivery.

Funny, UPS and FedEx both "evil for profit corporations" kick the USPS's ass on price and service. The only way USPS can even try to compete is by being subsidized by the government because they are losing billions a year, year after year.

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crickets from the peanut gallery

[TheSanityAnnex]

Funny, UPS and FedEx both "evil for profit corporations" kick the USPS's ass on price and service. The only way USPS can even try to compete is by being subsidized by the government because they are losing billions a year, year after year.

I sell a lot of stuff on ebay and gunbroker and the priority shipping from USPS is always cheaper and faster for me.

[CosmicCowboy]

I sell a lot of stuff on ebay and gunbroker and the priority shipping from USPS is always cheaper and faster for me.

Interesting. I have had the opposite experience on reliability and have received some horribly mangled packages from USPS. On the other hand, it's not hard to be cheaper when you can lose billions every year and get bailed out year after year by the Government.

[Th'Pusher]

Funny, UPS and FedEx both "evil for profit corporations" kick the USPS's ass on price and service. The only way USPS can even try to compete is by being subsidized by the government because they are losing billions a year, year after year.

UPS and FedEx aren't banks.

[spurraider21]

How dare those robber-baron banks charge a small fee to use a service that requires electricity and maintenance to run!

... i've never had to pay a penny for using an atm