Millennials not turning out to vote
The NY Times looked at early voting trends, and Hillary has reason to be concerned.
Looks like young people wanted Bernie, not Hillary.
Maybe the DNC should have thought about that before rigging the nomination.
As for minorities, Hispanics are turning out, but blacks are blase.
Meanwhile, even CNN couldn't stand Brazile's ties to Hillary.
CNN says it is "completely uncomfortable" with hacked emails showing former contributor and interim DNC chair Donna Brazile sharing questions with the Clinton campaign before a debate and a town hall during the Democratic primary, and has accepted her resignation.Hacked emails posted by WikiLeaks show Brazile, whose CNN contract was suspended when she became interim DNC chair over the summer, sharing with the Clinton campaign a question that would be posed to Hillary Clinton before the March CNN Democratic debate in Flint, and sharing with the campaign a possible question prior to a CNN town hall also in March.
In a statement, CNN spokeswoman Lauren Pratapas said that on Oct. 14, the network accepted Brazile's resignation.
"On October 14th, CNN accepted Donna Brazile’s resignation as a CNN contributor. (Her deal had previously been suspended in July when she became the interim head of the DNC.) CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate. We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor," Pratapas said.
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Cannot quite get myself to care.
Brazille will be punished for getting caught, not for what she did. Meanwhile, CNN is trying to make it look like it is taking the high ground, which it isn't.
Interesting numbers. Thanks. It could be that people are waiting for the next shoe to drop before committing themselves.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
How much is at stake, I wonder
I would have suspected CNN would try to have their cake and eat it too. They'd fire Brazile, but after the election. Doing so before hand plays into the corrupt Hillary meme. That wasn't vetted by the campaign, I'm sure. I believe I can hear the screeching from the Red Queen's castle.
So I wonder, how bad would it be for CNN if they delayed? What is at stake? Is their audience on election night that profitable? Or do Nielsen ratings become a high water mark by advertisers who use it to set rates for the next year? Their annual revenue is $10 Billion, so a ratings drop of 1% = $100 Million.
F the F'n D's
I voted but I'm not sure why I bothered.
I'm wondering how long after the elections will it take before the partisans take their heads out of their asses. It wont be pretty as either way we will have elected the least unpopular of the two.
If anything...
...it gives you license to complain about the outcome...
I want my two dollars!
What i really wish for
Is to be able to laugh at both of them.
The depressing thing is we will all have to deal with the consequences of this farce.
It 'looks like
Hillary's hispanic white knights are coming through, but everyone else is bailing. Of course it could be just voter suppression.
Not that it matters; if she manages to cheat her way anyway she'll have to nuke SF to avoid impeachment.
On to Biden since 1973
That would be the sound
of the baby hitting the ground with the bathwater. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of sociopaths.
Just got a call from the Colorado democratic party, reminding me to vote for HRC. I had some fun with telling them I'd already voted for Stein, and why, until they hung up on me...
My two millenials are voting green
as are I and my wife, FWIW. No early voting in NY, so no pattern we can possibly see here yet, but my hope is that she obtains less votes than Obama did when he won the state in 2012 and that Greens exceed 5% here (one can dream).
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
I just wish all millenials would do that.
Vote, that is. The very existence of Stein and Johnson on the ballot is practically a state secret to the media.
NC and Ohio... ouch
the firewall is too hot to touch and starting to smoke.
Really? Yuuuge surprise there!
The "Bucket of Losers" has no appetite for her Heinous!
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-hillary-clinton-calls-bernie-fans-millennials-bucket-losers-goldman-sachs-speech/
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
Snopes: false
not true
Unfortunately Snopes has damaged its credibility
by parsing and weasel-wording some earlier stories in regard to Ms. Clinton. That means we need another source to fact-check Snopes.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Thanks for the correction
Still, she has nothing but contempt for the young voters, at least for those that dare to oppose her. It was pretty obvious from the start that she could not convince those on board for Bernie other than the minority she was able to intimidate with the anti-Trump propaganda.
The tuition concession for example is nothing but a cynical move as it is clear that income tests will not get the needed support and therefore the whole proposal collapses. Universal free (for the students) tuition would have been a much more powerful package. Her base is the older well to-do crowd that votes on a regular basis. And she's struggling to add to that demographic given her catastrophic candidacy.
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
Black vote in
nC & Ohio. The voter purges are probably having an effect.
Not good news for Hillary. She needs enough black votes to overcome the republicans traditional lead with whites.
Hispanics aren't enough of the population, and don't vote overwhelming dem enough, to offset black losses. I think. Especially if they are voting in really red states.
Where the hispanics are don't
Where the hispanics are don't help billary much either, and the Florida Hispanics are likely still lean ruub. If the white liberal turn is also low, might spell disaster for her majesty.
In order to beat Bernie, $Hillary had to show her true colors
and the young-un's don't particularly like that hue of corruption green.
The real SparkyGump has passed. It was an honor being your human.
Imagine the mid-terms
There was a diary by the leader of TOP which I could not get through during the primaries. He basically from my point of view enunciated a vision of the democratic party as a coalition of white women, all minority groups, and allied segments such as the gay community--and I suppose him as the new Cesar Chavez. He seemed to have kicked out all millennials (for daring to oppose Clinton I suppose) and white males of any strip.
Thing is, to win, the democrats need a coalition of various groups--throwing a good sized group ain't helping the cause. My guess with no analysis of the numbers is that Hillary will win the white woman's vote which has gone to the gop (I believe Rommey had something like 52-54% of white women).
If the gop can recover post-Trump, and if Hillary goes down the dual poison of war and economic neoliberal policies, she and Bill will first destroyed the left, and much of the democratic party base. If Hillary wins, I see enough gop gains in mid-terms to act on impeachment.
voter suppression is a factor too
I know a couple of other ppl already mentioned this in comments, but I wanted to add my 2 cents. There's a bunch of stories out there about fewer early voting places, shortened hours and fewer days offered, and no voting places in black and brown neighborhoods. There are new ID laws that have disenfranchised a lot of people. If you want to vote, most states don't make it easy.
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
Also bad for HRC although not her fault
for once... transit strike in Philly may make it difficult for those using public transit to vote if no settlement before next T.