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Feel the Fucking Bern Baby!!!! Just woke up to Euphoria. (Original Post) Fuddnik Mar 2016 OP
It's going to be a wonderful day! In_The_Wind Mar 2016 #1
+1... monicaangela Mar 2016 #2
George Wallace and 1972 Democratic Primary HDavis Mar 2016 #6
That's true, but history can explain why... monicaangela Mar 2016 #11
I'd say George Wallace and Bernie Sanders could not be more different from one another. Maedhros Mar 2016 #30
The Muslim community in Dearborn voted overwhelmingly for the old Jewish guy! Dustlawyer Mar 2016 #19
THAT just blows me away! Le Taz Hot Mar 2016 #22
They know that Bernie wants equality for ALL AMERICANS! Dustlawyer Mar 2016 #23
I am luvin' it! yourpaljoey Mar 2016 #26
Be careful...Flint has not given up its votes angstlessk Mar 2016 #3
Interesting! monicaangela Mar 2016 #12
They have Jimmy Carter. n/t Mira Mar 2016 #18
LOL! monicaangela Mar 2016 #25
Genesee County returns are at 100% (219 of 219 precincts reporting) demwing Mar 2016 #20
It doesn't matter. SheilaT Mar 2016 #21
Congrats on MI, Bernie and Bernie folk. Hortensis Mar 2016 #4
Jury Results. merrily Mar 2016 #5
Are you kidding me? Fuddnik Mar 2016 #8
Don't look at me. I voted leave. merrily Mar 2016 #9
I know that. Fuddnik Mar 2016 #13
Aw... bummer... call off sick!! dana_b Mar 2016 #15
Haha! Really? Shadowflash Mar 2016 #14
For no reason. Literally, no reason. merrily Mar 2016 #17
Someone on CNN last night call the auto bailout lie "A sucker punch below the belt at the buzzer" corkhead Mar 2016 #7
lies are going to do her in dana_b Mar 2016 #16
She is poisoning the Bernie voter-well she will need if she 'wins' the Primary yourpaljoey Mar 2016 #27
Go Bernie Go! Cobalt Violet Mar 2016 #10
Anderson Cooper "Will you say anything to get elected?" bahrbearian Mar 2016 #24
Yes she will. 840high Mar 2016 #29
YEEEEEEAH! Kenjie Mar 2016 #28

monicaangela

(1,508 posts)
2. +1...
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 07:44 AM
Mar 2016

Interesting article over at HP this morning:

At the latest Democratic debate, Clinton inaccurately attacked Sanders on his auto bailout vote and it apparently backfired in her face.

Clinton's history of stretching the truth, combined with this latest debate incident, did not bode well for her in the honesty category.

Equally troubling, Clinton has negative favorability ratings. In other words, 53.8-percent of American voters have an unfavorable opinion of her.

Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, is the only candidate, in either party, with a net-positive favorability rating.

Michigan, the largest delegate prize since Texas, went to Bernie Sanders tonight, despite consistent polling that showed Clinton with an insurmountable lead.

Sanders has now won 9 states while Clinton has won 12.

However, the vast majority of Clinton's wins were in southern states, and few of those remain. As the Democratic race shifts away from the deep south, Clinton's firewall is starting to wither, and Sander's viability is looking more and more legitimate.

If Clinton can't win in a diverse state like Michigan, which MSNBC called, "a Petri dish of American's problems," the nomination may finally be slipping out of reach.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-hanley/why-hillary-clinton-lost_b_9414512.html

HDavis

(10 posts)
6. George Wallace and 1972 Democratic Primary
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 07:52 AM
Mar 2016

George Wallace won the 1972 Michigan Primary with 809,239 votes!

monicaangela

(1,508 posts)
11. That's true, but history can explain why...
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:02 AM
Mar 2016

The 1970s were a tumultuous time. In some ways, the decade was a continuation of the 1960s. Women, African Americans, Native Americans, gays and lesbians and other marginalized people continued their fight for equality, and many Americans joined the protest against the ongoing war in Vietnam. In other ways, however, the decade was a repudiation of the 1960s. A “New Right” mobilized in defense of political conservatism and traditional family roles, and the behavior of President Richard Nixon undermined many people’s faith in the good intentions of the federal government. By the end of the decade, these divisions and disappointments had set a tone for public life that many would argue is still with us today.

The Conservative Backlash

Many Americans, particularly working class and middle class whites, responded to the turbulence of the late 1960s–the urban riots, the antiwar protests, the alienating counterculture–by embracing a new kind of conservative populism. Sick of what they interpreted as spoiled hippies and whining protestors, tired of an interfering government that, in their view, coddled poor people and black people at taxpayer expense, these individuals formed what political strategists called a “silent majority.”

http://www.history.com/topics/1970s

We are in a different time now, so I don't believe that statistic is relevant anymore.

 

Maedhros

(10,007 posts)
30. I'd say George Wallace and Bernie Sanders could not be more different from one another.
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 02:15 PM
Mar 2016

And 1972 was quite a different time than is 2016.

Inept comparison.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
3. Be careful...Flint has not given up its votes
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 07:47 AM
Mar 2016

I wonder WHY Flint (genesee county) is the ONLY hold out?

190 of 210 precincts reporting?

It flipped from Sanders to Hillary in the early AM...wonder who the remaining precincts voted for?

AND why haven't they reported?

monicaangela

(1,508 posts)
12. Interesting!
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:04 AM
Mar 2016

We really need to get international observers to help us with our elections these days. Some third world countries appear to have less problems.

monicaangela

(1,508 posts)
25. LOL!
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:47 PM
Mar 2016

Yep, we need an equivalent to Jimmy Carter, preferably from outside the country and hopefully impartial.

 

demwing

(16,916 posts)
20. Genesee County returns are at 100% (219 of 219 precincts reporting)
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 09:32 AM
Mar 2016
http://www.gc4me.com/departments/county_clerks1/docs/Elections/201603/16MARPRI.CANVASS.pdf

See page 14

Clinton won in Genesee county, but by nowhere near enough to overcome Sander's 20k vote lead in the state.
 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
21. It doesn't matter.
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 10:14 AM
Mar 2016

Even if it's a bit strange that this late some of their precincts still haven't reported. It's the only 29 precincts in the entire state that haven't reported. And I just now checked the NYTimes website on the Michigan primary election results.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Congrats on MI, Bernie and Bernie folk.
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 07:48 AM
Mar 2016

538: "Bernie Sanders made folks like me eat a stack of humble pie on Tuesday night. He won the Michigan primary over Hillary Clinton, 50 percent to 48 percent...

The LA Times also wrongly predicted Bernie's auto bailout "I was for it before I was against it" argument would backfire on him. Wrong.

Maybe go easy on all the dishonesty stuff, though? Let's face it, it is neither honest nor nice. At best it's ignorant. Bernie just did what campaigners do, but he does not meet the special "Hillary" standard.

Just so you know, Hillary told the truth, but to understand that you have to understand a slightly complex reality, while Bernie told part of the truth, carefully styled to deceive:

"What the campaign failed to mention was that Sanders voted the following month with Republicans in a failed effort to cancel the second half of TARP's funding, which would have stopped the Obama administration from using $350 billion in bailout dollars. That sum had $4 billion earmarked for the auto bailout, but arguably included most of the $80 billion that ultimately was lent to the industry."

merrily

(45,251 posts)
5. Jury Results.
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 07:49 AM
Mar 2016

No comments added by alerter

the Jury voted 2-5 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Alerter, if you can't be arsed to explain, I can't be arsed to hide. Stop it.
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Waste of time. Accept this defeat and move on.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Of you cannot be bothered to explain your alert, I cannot be bothered to hide.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given

Fuddnik

(8,846 posts)
8. Are you kidding me?
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 07:56 AM
Mar 2016

We were told all day yesterday, this was the end. Bernie would be gone.

He'll be here in Tampa tomorrow, and I gotta #@!%$&! work!

Happy Day!!!!!

corkhead

(6,119 posts)
7. Someone on CNN last night call the auto bailout lie "A sucker punch below the belt at the buzzer"
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 07:54 AM
Mar 2016

and a Clintonian dirty trick. It was refreshing.

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