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Related: About this forumFive Reasons No Progressive Should Support Hillary Clinton
Ever since the 2012 election results were certified, the conventional wisdom has been that Hillary Clinton is all but guaranteed a coronation in the 2016 primaries. She has racked up a series of endorsements from prominent Democrats. As early as July 2013, an MSNBC article referred to her as the "presumptive nominee," a term generally reserved for the Democratic candidate who has clinched the majority of party delegates. Although her support has slipped slightly in the past month, she still holds a commanding, and arguably prohibitive, lead in polling of Democratic primary candidates, with 88 percent of self-described "solid liberals" pledging support for her. It is possible that this high degree of support may result more from the perception that she is inevitable rather than from widespread substantive agreement with many of her policies, because upon close examination, there is a litany of positions she's taken that many on the left would find highly problematic.
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http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/29052-five-reasons-no-progressive-should-support-hillary-clinton
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Five Reasons No Progressive Should Support Hillary Clinton (Original Post)
berniepdx420
Apr 2016
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Let's imagine a 2016 election that didn't include Bernie. What shall the progressives do?
The_Casual_Observer
Apr 2016
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The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)1. Let's imagine a 2016 election that didn't include Bernie. What shall the progressives do?
blm
(113,065 posts)2. Those POSING as progressives here will be gearing up for Rand2020.
Actually, they are already
.that's why they came to DU
..again.
Some even specialize in the old Gish Gallop.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)3. That's a pretty frightening scenario.
What I find disheartening is that on most of the points that the author makes I ask myself, "was there a better solution?"
and even though I am very far left on most issues, I don't know if I or anybody else could have offered much better at the time on most of this stuff.
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)4. I Can Think Of A Lot MORE THAN FIVE!
Just a few in here...
Ohhh... Where are those transcripts Madam Secretary and Sidney as well?