tomorrow, and it could be bad maybe around voting time.

http://www.omaha.com/weather/forecast-blizzard-conditions-expected-to-make-travel-difficult-if-not/article_9ee965c4-39e4-549d-bbf7-c106f5d1fc9a.html

By Kevin Cole and Nancy Gaarder / World-Herald staff writers

Update, 5:25 p.m.: Blizzard warning issued for south-central Nebraska

Weather advisories for south-central Nebraska have been upgraded to a full-fledged blizzard warning.

The National Weather Service office in Hastings has issued a blizzard warning for noon Monday to midnight Tuesday. Affected areas include the communities of Kearney, Grand Islands and Hastings and a long stretch of Interstate 80.

Light snow is expected to develop in south-central Nebraska Monday morning and travel conditions could become hazardous by Monday afternoon as conditions deteriorate. Blizzard conditions are considered likely in that region by Monday evening and into Tuesday. South-central Nebraska could see 8 inches to 12 inches of snow. From Monday night into Tuesday, winds could be sustained at 25 mph to 35 mph and gusting to 45 mph.
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The news isn’t getting any better on the fierce winter storm that is expected to generate blizzard conditions Tuesday across the Midlands, making travel difficult, if not impossible.

FULL story at link.

the weatherman on MSGOP/Morning Joe I saw earlier today. For what that's worth. We shall see-

Actually this would likely help Sanders over Clinton, since her voters tend to be older or elderly.

Blizzard warning starts at 6PM Monday in Council Bluffs. A map shows Clinton support strongest in western and southern Iowa - exactly where the storm fires up first.

hope it blows over quick. Nothin' cycloning. that's good. just the one leaving my area in So. Cal.

Blizzards are good for Bernie, imo. The MSM has been telling Hillary supporters that they have it sewn up for months now, so why bother? Bernie supporters are much more motivated and enthusiastic; we would never let a blizzard get in our way!

So, Monday will be fine mostly. Sorry to spoil the drama...

Mother Nature are also powerful forces.

Go Bernie!

extremely hard for campaign elections, a well known fact in politics as Dr. Rick Hardy stated on CNN in discussing the Western Illinois Univ. mock election he founded. Those students have 100% accurately predicted the winner of the presidential election for 4 decades, since 1975. For the 2016 race, they determined that Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the next US President.
Voters will make it to the Iowa caucus polls, fear not! I also believe that Sanders will be The First Millennial President.

that is saying a lot.

Bernie's strength, his major support is in the college towns and the larger towns and cities.

Hillary's support is inevitably going to be in the more rural areas and smaller towns. I read that here on DU yesterday I think. I believe that to be true based on what I know of Iowa, and I do know it pretty well or at least I knew it very well at one time.

It is easy to get to the caucus if you live in a town or city. It's going to be in the school or courthouse a few blocks away. It will be cold and maybe snowy or icy, but Iowans are used to snow and ice that blow right through your coat and sting your nose and ears. Children used to wear scarves tied around their noses and mouths when they walked home from school in the blowing snow back when . . . .

It will be tough "sledding" as they say to get to the caucus if you live on a farm some miles from the town. And that is where a lot but not all of the conservative voters will find themselves at caucus time -- on a farm some miles from the town.

I am overgeneralizing and should be ashamed of myself for doing that. But how hard will it be for young people to walk across the campus and maybe a few blocks to go caucus? Not that tough. They have strong legs for the most part and strong hearts and really want Bernie to win.

It will be a bit tougher for some of the older people.

If it snows, God is definitely on Bernie's side.

My tongue is in my cheek a little as I write that, but then . . . . I do definitely think that God is on Bernie's side. So we shall see . . . .

Trust me. I know a lot about Iowa winters. A lot.

and let's get on track with a Bernie presidency

here's his quote from the article...pretty tame if you ask me.

They questioned whether any president could get them passed into law with a GOP-dominated House. Nobody likes to hear that, but it is the truth.

snip: The paper's editorial board challenged Sanders's image as an "uncorrupted anti-establishment crusader" and "brave truth-teller" in a piece published Wednesday.

"When reality is ideologically or politically inconvenient, he and his campaign talk around it," the board wrote. "Mr. Sanders’s success so far does not show that the country is ready for a political revolution. It merely proves that many progressives like being told everything they want to hear."

We progressives have been dissed again ---we just "like being told what we want to hear." As if we have no brain and cannot see what's happened with Wall St., MSM, the billionaire class, Citizens United and an economic system that leaves 99% working harder for less, so that the 1% can get richer.

Go, Bernie, keep up the truth telling.

Clearly, given all the tough rhetoric on ISIS, taxes, taking back America, immigration, etc. the whole republican field is just proving that many conservatives like being told everything they want to hear!
So, really what they're saying about Sanders applies to every single person running, and to a higher degree on the radical right.

This is a hurricane of change coming

Mexico will pay for a wall, the IRS will be abolished, we'll ban gay marriage, etc, etc.

data updates over there if anyone's interested.

On this event tmrw and also b/c of Bernie and his supporters, I think he's got it.

The Gif I posted upthread always refreshes when this page does. (Direct Link out of NOAH)

He didn't enter this race to lose it, and if he thinks he WILL lose it, he isn't going to say so publicly.

Given that, the second picture does him no favors at all...it looks like he's about to tell those damn kids to get off his lawn.

NT

so everything will be dragged through the courts unless we can get a Dem Congress

After serving two years as mayor of Burlington, Bernie doubled the voter turn-out in the mayoral race.

If he can double the turn-out in the mid-term election after 2016, that is in 2018, we can have a solidly blue Congress.

I believe that Bernie with our help can do that.

Feel the Bern!

Trespassing on the White House lawn is a felony.

A President doesn't need Congressional approval to refuse meeting with corporate lobbyists.

Apparently, that's all it takes.

Hillary..well see she did not expect any opposition.Her Campaign did not organize her campaign with the idea of competition.
So they were caught off guard and they might not recover. She loses IA then NH they will get really nervous and so will her corporate donors. Then moving on to Nev and SC with Bernie's momentum at that point it will be very difficult for Hillary.

I would guess it's natural as smell on skunk that polling companies know how to please their clients. It is, after all, what they sell.

for a newspaper to endorse one person from each party during the primary season.

i didn't realize how invested i was in this whole thing until right now the primary is upon us and i'm checking every 12 hours to see the new polls.

**crosses fingers**

because he was right.All the corporate news media are shaking in their boots because Hillary is one of their own.Their political tool, their mouthpiece at the table.
They need Hillary to help them carry on their corporate influence in Washington...Bernie is going to cut those ties and they fear him.

about the huge difference in the crowds for Bernie vs. Hillary. I have seen the MSM say that those crowds don't mean much cuz they won't come out on caucus night which is hilarious. But back to my question. Has Hillary supporters noticed or said anything about the huge difference in the crowds for these two candidates.

I still have an ounce of civility left, I will point out that they argue her crowds aren't as big because she's already a known quantity to her supporters. IOW, they don't need to come to rallies to support her.

Not sure I buy that, as I was in Madison, WI in 1992 when Bill Clinton rolled into town and there was a huge outpouring for him on the grounds of the state capital. I don't remember now whether he had already sewn up the nomination when he appeared there. So I may be proffering a false analogy.

The Washington Post.

Or enough good things about Senator Bernie Sanders.

Get thee to the polls! Put your snow shoes on!

Here's some good vibrations for the weather....

pissing its pants over this guy's campaign.

Gonna have to have a few extra laundry days at the Post. Evidently they're a nervous bunch.

Charlie Pierce of Esquire

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me program on NPR and thought, 'Damn, this guy's got it together.'

Tracked down the Esquire column and read it all the time now.

Pierce nailed Scott Walker eons before anybody else. He called him a

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"...goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin.

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Whether or not you agree with their editor's opinions. The Post agrees with me that Bernie promises way more than anybody could possibly deliver. The problem with that is that when you shoot for the stars you may end up accomplishing nothing.

former's verdict.

I think I'll take the Post any day over Esquire Magazine. But that's just me.

and i have followed politics since 1960 and I have never seen anything like this..Reviewing political history even with
FDR have never seen rallies this size.

This is why Bernie Sanders will win because the people "we the people" are behind him 150%

and you know what happened in the 2008 race

But I feel the same way. I think looking back, we'll see this as the campaign Social Media helped to craft. Before, it was the internet, then television ... who can forget Nixon and JFK ... and probably radio before that.

In any case, we've come a long, long way in this old Boomer's lifetime.

And her alignment with the Bush family is borderline criminal.

and that is causing panic amongst the Bush-Clinton clan.

Trump or Sanders in there will signal a strong rebuff of allowing a handful of families from holding the White House.

They don't like that much, because the Bush-Clintons all think they are entitled to it.

Instead he kicks the Washington Post's butt.

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They're hoping Hillary pulls out a win and then they can ask him "what went wrong" etc. and say his campaign is losing steam. He clearly included a qualifier, "If people come out." All that being said, it's better to be optimistic than to be tamping down expectations. Hillary is doing neither, she's just biting her nails.

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

snip: In 2013, longtime owners the Graham family sold the newspaper to Jeff Bezos for US$250 million in cash.[1][2][9] The newspaper is owned by Nash Holdings LLC, a holding company Bezos created for the acquisition.[10]

snip: Other assets included in the sale were the publications Apartment Showcase, Capital Business, Fashion Washington, Guide to Retirement Living Sourcebook, New Condominium Guide, and New Homes Guide; the internet sites TheCapitolDeal.com and ServiceAlley.com; and Comprint Military Publications (which included eight weekly newspapers covering local military bases, 10 annual guides to local military bases, and the Web sites DCMilitary.com, DCMilitaryEd.com, DCMilitaryFamLife.com).[40] Some real estate was also included in the deal...[40]

snip: On March 26, 2007, Chris Matthews said on his television program, "Well, The Washington Post is not the liberal newspaper it was, Congressman, let me tell you. I have been reading it for years and it is a neocon newspaper".[60]

snip: Responding to criticism of the newspaper's coverage during the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, former Post ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote: "The opinion pages have strong conservative voices; the editorial board includes centrists and conservatives; and there were editorials critical of Obama. Yet opinion was still weighted toward Obama."[63] According to a 2009 publication, in the blogging community, liberal bloggers link to The Washington Post and The New York Times more often than other major newspapers; however, conservative bloggers also link predominantly to liberal newspapers.[64]

In January 2014, the Post announced that liberal columnist Ezra Klein was going to leave the newspaper together with Dylan Matthews and another journalist to establish the new news site Vox.[65] Also in January 2014, the Post announced a partnership with the conservative-libertarian blog The Volokh Conspiracy and started hosting the blog on its website.[66][67]

...on the wild promises he is making. They are not alone in believing that. the have not treated Clinton kindly over the years.

http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/01/28/bernie-sanders-leads-hillary-clinton-in-new-iowa-poll/#

But she leads by 3! I don't believe in polls, but figured I'd post this one.

I hope this too.

The plan was for students to go back to their home districts to caucus so Bernie would capture more delegates in places other than concentrations of younger voters like college towns. At the same time, Hillary's older voters might not want to leave the house in a blizzard if they don't think they will be able to get back home. It's a nail biter.

Bless Bernie Sanders, and bless him for trying to keep the Democratic Party from recasting itself as a first-rate imitation of the GOP circa 1960, but I keep hearing the after-echoes of someone crowing of his early primary victories and crowing that 'We have big Mo!', 'We have big Mo!'.