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Iamaartist

(3,300 posts) Sun May 22, 2016, 06:54 AM May 2016

Young Democrats Rush to Register Ahead of California Primary

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The Los Angeles County-based data firm Political Data Inc. reports: “This registration is already beyond what we saw in 2008 or 2012 pre-Primary registration. It is nearing the numbers we achieved in the last two General Elections.”

A staggering 200,000 new registrations occurred on May 16 and 17, when Facebook began urging users to vote — a move now shrouded in controversy, given reports that the company has suppressed stories from conservative news websites.

As Matthew Artz of the Bay Area News Group reports, many of the newly-registered are Democrats, and many of them are also young — both clues that point to enthusiasm for Sanders, who has done very well among younger primary voters:

Californians are registering to vote in breathtaking numbers not seen since the Reagan Revolution, as the no-holds-barred presidential primary season and tech-based outreach efforts have rousted more than 1 million people from their political slumber….

The new voters are trending young and Democratic — two groups more inspired by Bernie Sanders than Donald Trump.

“There is no precedent for this in California since 1980 in terms of the overall surge in voter registration,” said Paul Mitchell, the firm’s vice president. “The motivation to register is as much to vote against somebody as it is to vote for somebody.”

Political Data also noted that Democratic registration is up 218%, while Republican registration — cut short, perhaps, by the decision by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) earlier this month to quit the race — is up 78%. Latino registration, thought to be driven partly by reactions to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, is up 123%.

The company also notes that registration tends to spike around major primary dates, when news reports focus on the overall presidential race.

I knew it was for .... Sanders makes a last-ditch effort to keep Clinton from the nomination.

Well Bernie its over for you no matter what you try....Hillary will win....nomination.

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Young Democrats Rush to Register Ahead of California Primary (Original Post) Iamaartist May 2016 OP

can't we use a different link than breitbart? still_one May 2016 #1

We now have the "media-supported celebrity campaign." yallerdawg May 2016 #3

yes we are, and real Democrats are voting for Hillary, not alledged Sanders supporters who say they still_one May 2016 #4

I think most are Latinos who want to vote against Trump lunamagica May 2016 #2

I think so, too. eom BlueCaliDem May 2016 #5

Bring 'em in. :) TwilightZone May 2016 #6

still_one

(92,219 posts)

1. can't we use a different link than breitbart?

Reply to Iamaartist (Original post)

Sun May 22, 2016, 08:19 AM

May 2016

Here is a non-breitbart link:

http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_29922565/california-voter-registration-soaring-june-7-primary-approaches

"One third of the new voters chose no political party, and only 16.7 percent registered Republican -- far less than the GOP's current 27 percent share of California voters. Nearly two-thirds of the new voters were under 35, and 29 percent were Latino."

One thing that the article does not devote any time on is those who have been registered and voting for years.

Sanders and his campaign has broad brushed and dissed a lot of people and groups which provide jobs, healthcare for women, and a lot of other services. Whole areas of the country have been tossed aside by Sanders. He is not a uniter but a divider

When Sanders commented to the NY Daily News that GE was one of the companies "destroying the moral fabric of America", that charge did not go unanswered.

"The CEO of General Electric was not pleased with Bernie Sanders’s criticisms of the company, writing in The Washington Post that the Vermont senator was lying, making hollow campaign promises, and “missing the point” by criticizing GE’s morality.

“GE has been in business for 124 years, and we’ve never been a big hit with socialists,” CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt writes. “We create wealth and jobs, instead of just calling for them in speeches.”

“The senator has never bothered to stop by our aviation plant in Rutland, Vt.,” Immelt writes. “It’s a picture of first-rate jobs with high wages, advanced manufacturing in a vital industry — how things look when American workers are competing and winning — and Vermont’s junior senator is always welcome to come by for a tour.”

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2016/04/07/general-electric-ceo-bernie-sanders-cheap-shots

Sanders is just another Pied Piper of Hamelin, with false promises.

A lot of similarities between Sanders and Huey Long. In fact, a lot of similarities between Sanders and Donald Trump

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

3. We now have the "media-supported celebrity campaign."

Reply to still_one (Reply #1)

Sun May 22, 2016, 02:06 PM

May 2016

Real politicians/candidates get vetted. Their records and words are parsed ad nauseum.

With Trump and Sanders, have we ever seen two candidates get more "wink and a nod" from the media? (pay no attention to the 2008 Obama primary)

We know the November election race the media really wanted - now we have Hillary, they'll have to prop up Trump some more, ignore his words some more, dismiss his history some more.

Get the poll results they want - some more.

At least we are backing a real candidate!