Hello, c99 friends, just got in from the weekly trip into the city. Running behind on everything: darn good thing I got retired; now I have more time in which to run behind on all my projects :=) No time for digging today either. Grr.
Yesterday the classic catch-up "horns" were forming nicely in the respective NY trendlines, but Clinton's has flattened out today. (A new NBC/WSJ/Marist poll included has Clinton 57-40 - in line with their poll earlier and same methodology and error rate - which can be taken with the same grain or two of salt.) Below is the National Dem Race trend lines.

PPB (Political People Blog) has a new article out detailing the work of Julian Blair, a statistician and economist from the University of New South Wales in Australia who has been closely monitoring the race here.

Statistical Analyst : Bernie Sanders Will All of The Remaining States Except Two

The key argument Blair makes to PPB is:

I have to go to work so this will be short.

If Hillary Clinton wants to be a better candidate that can actually rally the party in November, she really, really, really needs to do a better job of understanding why so many young people are voting for Bernie. And she really needs a better answer than this.

When asked yet again this morning on Morning Joe why she thinks so many young people are voting for Sanders, including young women, Hillary had this to say:

After a pleasant conversation with my brother, who is lefter than Bernie!--I thought about: why is the electorate so angry in 2016. So a Google search for answers was only partly rewarding.

Arizona’s disenfranchisement of voters on March 22nd was no accident.

Let me start off with a disclaimer: This is assuming votes are actually counted. It is a continuation of a Facebook discussion.

I just returned from my Eastern Washington Caucus, to find a bunch of comments over at KOS derailing the caucus process.

This banned KOS-"bernie zombie" now-lurker unsurprisingly disagrees...

Is there anything more democratic than this? :

( Cannot seem to get the video in-line, but it is below the body of this essay. Close the popup upon following link to view the video)

Bill curry has always been out front of the posse catching up to El Diablo Hillario in the dusty deserts of the post-industrial wastelands. He's not only smart as a whip, but he has seen the Clinton Machine in flagrante delicto up close. Do not form mental images inside your head...too late, eh? He's so close to El Diablo he can almost touch the tails of the rear-most horses. He provides a brilliant take on the view from there today. And takes a good swot at the overreach of the 538's of her MSM colluders. It even has a Jack Sparrow quote. Extract and link below.

inciting violence at his rally there recently. Here is an extract from an article from The Hill from this afternoon.

Authorities in North Carolina are considering whether to press charges against GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump after a protester was assaulted during one of his rallies in Fayetteville, according to WRAL.com.

I used to think, "There is no way this can continue, both parties are corrupt and not salvageable."

But then an outsider came into the party, an outsider that came from a group of outsiders that I used to be a part of before I moved to a closed primary state.

A man with Crazy white hair. A man that shouted a lot, but with passion, sometimes even rage at an unjust system, but never with hate.

A man that Voted with the Democrats more often than Democrats did.