ya'll gotta stop doing this man...the GOP is NOT dying.
Theres a lot of people who are NOT leftists in any regard
Who is Bernie Sanders?
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ya'll gotta stop doing this man...the GOP is NOT dying.
Theres a lot of people who are NOT leftists in any regard
You're the WOAT i don't care what you think.
breh, yes it is. Party loyalty in general is dying.
Cacs made Obama president for a full 8 years in a country with a black population of only 14%
The GOP loyalty is dying that's a fact fukk what WOAT talking about.
Wisconsin straw poll surprise: A narrow Clinton win
Bernie Sanders shocks with 41 percent of the vote.
By JONATHAN TOPAZ
6/8/15 12:02 AM EDT
Hillary Clinton is crushing the rest of the Democratic presidential field in national polls, but over the weekend, in a Wisconsin straw poll, there was reason to give the Clinton camp pause and the Bernie Sanders camp hope — Sanders scored a strong second-place finish with 41 percent of the vote, to Clinton’s 49 percent.
The Vermont senator, a self-described democratic socialist and a long shot for the White House, received 208 of 511 delegate votes at the Wisconsin Democratic Party convention in Milwaukee on Saturday, while Clinton won votes from 252 of the delegates, leaving her just short of a majority.
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Vice President Joe Biden and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who announced his candidacy late last month, each received 3 percent of the vote. Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, who is considering a bid, won 2 percent, while former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, who announced his long-shot candidacy last week, received 1 percent.
The result is another encouraging sign for Sanders, an Independent who is drawing large crowds in early nominating states such as Iowa and New Hampshire. In the two weeks since he announced his candidacy, he has seen an uptick in the polls against Clinton — who remains the heavy favorite — and is showing signs he is picking up some supporters of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the progressive icon who has said repeatedly that she is not running for president in 2016.
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While the first caucuses and primaries are still months away, and while the overall polling gap between Sanders and Clinton is still massive (roughly 50 points in a recent CNN poll), the Wisconsin results show the strength of the restive progressive movement and the challenge before Clinton to tap into it.
Robert Hansen, the Wisconsin Progressive Democrats of America coordinator, said the state party is receptive to Sanders’ left-leaning message, in part because of Democrats’ anger over Gov. Scott Walker’s aggressively conservative tenure. “The Democratic Party of Wisconsin has a very progressive agenda that aligns very much with Bernie,” Hansen said. “The majority of people behind the scenes are far more progressive or liberal than what you’d see in some other states.”
Hansen added that since Walker’s push against unions, organized labor has “re-engaged” with the state party more than in the past and progressive activists have gotten more involved in the Democratic infrastructure.
Kelly Westlund, chairwoman of the Chequamegon Democrats and a 2014 congressional candidate, said that around 1,300 delegates attended the convention, the highest number in about 20 years, due to the closely contested party chair race. Westlund, who arranged a bus for organizers traveling from northern Wisconsin about seven or eight hours away, said the increased attendance was mostly from grass-roots activists.
“I don’t know that this convention was necessarily representative of the establishment,” she said, adding that Sanders’ message is resonating in rural areas of the state.
Both she and Hansen noted that the pro-Clinton booth was located right outside the straw-poll voting location.
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Neither Clinton nor Sanders attended this year’s convention. A party official read a letter from the former secretary of state in which Clinton vowed to help build the state party and to visit Wisconsin soon. Sanders recorded a video address that was played only after the straw poll, and the campaign made no organized effort at the conference, according to multiple Sanders advisers.
“Just imagine if we had really worked it,” said Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs.
Clinton won last year’s straw poll, with Warren coming in second.
Clinton spokesman Jesse Ferguson said in an email Monday, “She looks forward to talking to Wisconsin voters in the months to come and competing in the Wisconsin primary.”
Clinton in recent weeks has been rolling out a more progressive agenda to seize upon the energy in the left wing of the party that has mostly been directed toward Warren, despite her insistence she is not running.
The Democratic front-runner has spoken more aggressively about workers’ rights, immigration reform and an overhaul of the criminal justice system, and has refused to take a firm stance on President Barack’s Obama’s trade negotiations, which have been heavily criticized by progressives.
Still, the left lean could be a hard sell to some hard-core liberals, and Clinton is also battling stubbornly high untrustworthiness ratings, which are starting to take their toll on her favorability numbers.
“If you’re Secretary Clinton, you can’t write anything off,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic strategist and former Bill Clinton adviser, adding that the stress level in the Clinton camp is likely “high” after the straw poll.
“He is on her left, and no matter what you throw at him, he seems to be reasonably unstoppable at the moment,” Sheinkopf added.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/...-narrow-clinton-win-118727.html#ixzz3calqwwZT
I'm ok the Obama's America. I can deal with the for 4 or 8 more years.
GOP making this race a circus already, though.
Drip Bayless
Superstar
He can't lose he has the BasedGod's blessing
Welcome to the task force Based Sanders
Welcome to the task force Based Sanders
Who's in your avi friend?I'm ok the Obama's America. I can deal with the for 4 or 8 more years.
GOP making this race a circus already, though.
Put my family members onto Bernie who didn't know better. We winning this shyt brehs
I can't imagine a single black person or white man voting for Hillary.
Generally?