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Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign notched a big win in New Hampshire on Tuesday, and by Wednesday night it had a different kind of victory.
From the time the New Hampshire polls closed on Tuesday to mid-afternoon Wednesday, Sander’s campaign brought in $5.2 million.
According to sources within the campaign, the average donation was $34.
In claiming victory in New Hampshire, Sanders asked his supporters to take part in a country-wide campaign event and DONATE!
Looks like they did.
From Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston:
MSNBC and Telemundo will co-host a town hall with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in Las Vegas on Feb. 18, two days before Nevada Democrats hold presidential caucuses, I’ve confirmed.
The state party will partner with the networks on the event that is sure to draw distinctions on key Nevada issues and those important to Latinos.
Hispanic turnout was 14 percent in the 2008 Nevada caucuses, according to exit polls.
We have a “Titanic” situation, and wealthy ship passenger (and SNL host) Larry David can’t believe he has to wait for women and children to board the life boats ahead of him.
“Technically, my life is worth more than all of yours put together,” says David’s character.
Have no fear, though, “Bernie Sanderswitzski” is here to be the voice of reason.
Bernie’s entrance alone is worth watching the clip. And then there’s a well-played Trump moment.
Bravo, Bernie, bravo!
As we get closer and closer to Monday’s Iowa caucus’s, folks are looking to polls even more to read tea leaves about who may win on the Democratic side.
A new PPP poll shows former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leading Sen. Bernie Sanders 48% to his 40%. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley comes in with 7%.
PPP makes note that O’Malley’s voter COULD end up helping Sanders as the survey shows 57% of O’Malley’s supporters name Sanders as their second pick.
In Iowa, for a candidate to receive any delegates from a particular precinct, he or she must have the support of at least 15% of participants required by the viability threshold. Supporters of inviable candidates can shift to a candidate deemed viable, form a new group of other inviable candidates in hopes of reaching the threshold, or choose to abstain.
This is where folks “second choice” factors prominently.
Also of note: 88% of Clinton’s supporters say they are “firmly committed” to voting for her versus 74% of Sander’s supporters.
Come Monday we’ll finally have some real turnout and real votes to see where this is all headed.
With only five days until the all-important Iowa caucus’s, a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leading Sen. Bernie Sanders by a scant 3 points
Via The Hill:
A new poll shows Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) running neck-and-neck among likely Democratic caucusgoers in Iowa. Clinton has 48 percent support, compared to Sanders’s 45 percent in the Hawkeye State, within the margin of error of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll.
Sanders widened his lead over the former secretary of State to 19 points in New Hampshire, however, adding 15 points from a similar poll earlier this month.
Clinton remains dominant in South Carolina with a 37-point lead over the Vermont senator, 64 to 27 percent.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley hold the third spot in all three early voting states, pollsters also found, with 3 percent in Iowa, 2 percent in New Hampshire and 2 percent in South Carolina.
Very effective, positive campaign ad from Sen. Bernie Sanders set to the Simon & Garfunkel classic, “America.”
Begins airing in Iowa tomorrow.
On the campaign stump today, Hillary Clinton addressed the fact that while Sen. Bernie Sanders is espousing and promising new, single payer healthcare programs, and voicing certain foreign policy initiatives, they may not be realistic.
Via the Washington Post:
As Hillary Clinton closes in on the final days of campaigning in Iowa, she launched a new broadside against her principal Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), over his inability to advance a single-payer health-care plan throughout his decades in Congress.
“Senator Sanders has been in Congress for 25 years,” Clinton said at a rally at Simpson College on Thursday. “He never got even a single vote in the House or a single Senate co-sponsor. Not one.”
“You hear a promise to build a whole new system, but that’s not what you get,” she added. “You’ll get gridlock and an endless wait for advances that never come.”
“In theory, there’s a lot to like about some of his ideas,” Clinton said. “But ‘in theory’ isn’t enough. A president has to deliver in reality.”
I’m going to weigh in on this because the same thing happened in 2008. Hillary Clinton campaigned on what was realistic while Barack Obama promised “pie in the sky”hope and change.
Obama eventually delivered a lot of what he campaigned on. But many who voted for him voiced their disillusionment that he wasn’t delivering what he promised.
At the time, I championed Hillary because – with her experience – she didn’t promise the “pie in the sky.” She promised what she felt she could truly deliver.
It feels like we’re seeing a “Ground Hog’s Day” version of this all over again.
With any Republican controlled chamber of Congress, there will never be a single-payer health system. I support it – but it’s not happening any time soon. Hillary continues to campaign on being more moderate, willing to reach across party lines to break up the gridlock in Washington. It’s honestly what has to happen.
We all have our dreams of what we’d like Washington to do, but then there’s the cold reality.
Hillary is being more honest than Bernie about what’s truly possible.
I like Bernie. I like his ideas. But a lot of folks are getting swept up in the airy dreams, and not in the earthbound realities.
According to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton leads rival Bernie Sanders by 25 points nationally ahead of Sunday’s final Democratic debate.
Clinton currently has the support of 59 percent of Democratic primary voters, while Sanders gets 34 percent. Martin O’Malley gets 2 percent.
With the Iowa caucus’s just around the corner, Clinton leads Sanders in recent polling by an average of 4 points, according to RealClearPolitics.
The Democratic debate will air tonight on NBC at 9:00 pm ET.
A new poll of registered Democrats released today shows former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with a commanding 33 point lead over rival Sen. Bernie Sanders.
A Monmouth University survey released Wednesday found Clinton with a 33-point lead, taking 59 percent support nationally over Sanders at 26 percent. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley takes 4 percent support in the poll.
Those results are essentially unchanged from the same poll in October, which found Clinton leading 57–24 in the race for the Democratic nomination.
“Clinton successfully ran the gauntlet this fall, appearing before the Benghazi Committee and outlasting the specter of a Biden candidacy,” said Monmouth pollster Patrick Murray. “She really hasn’t lost ground since then.”
On a state by state basis, Clinton leads Sanders by double digits in Iowa, the first in the nation contest to be held February 1st.
Sanders, however, looks to have a 5 point lead in New Hampshire.
Clinton has maintained a steady double-digit lead in Iowa, raising the stakes for Sanders in New Hampshire. The Vermont senator holds a 5-point lead in the Granite State, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls.
Results of a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the main beneficiary of Vice President Joe Biden’s decision to not make a run for president in 2016.
Based on a random sample of 1,495 adults (1,259 registered voters), 52% of those who identify as Democrats say they support Hillary Clinton versus 33% for Sen. Bernie Sanders – a 19 point lead.
This mirrors the RealClearPolitics poll average that shows in the most recent surveys (in the last month) Hillary’s average lead over Bernie is 21.6 points.