2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum2016 endorsements
Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to get the chart(s) to post here on DU -- DonFiveThirtyEight has collected 177 endorsements so far, out of a possible total of approximately 585.
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-endorsement-primary/#endorsements
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)brooklynite
(94,595 posts)CANDIDATE DATE ENDORSER POSITION PTS.
Hillary Clinton
7/15/15 Marcia L. Fudge REP. (D-OHIO) 1
7/14 André Carson REP. (D-IND.) 1
6/27 Niki Tsongas REP. (D-MASS.) 1
6/23 Matthew Cartwright REP. (D-PA.) 1
6/23 William "Lacy" Clay Jr. REP. (D-MO.) 1
6/13 Elizabeth Esty REP. (D-CONN.) 1
6/13 Tom Wolf GOV. (D-PA.) 10
6/13 John B. Larson REP. (D-CONN.) 1
6/7 Dannel P. Malloy GOV. (D-CONN.) 10
6/4 Christopher Murphy SEN. (D-CONN.) 5
5/20 Peter Shumlin GOV. (D-VT.) 10
5/14 Joseph P. Kennedy III REP. (D-MASS.) 1
5/12 James McGovern REP. (D-MASS.) 1
5/5 Michael F. Bennet SEN. (D-COLO.) 5
5/5 Gary Peters SEN. (D-MICH.) 5
5/4 Brad Sherman REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
5/4 Grace Napolitano REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
5/4 Henry Cuellar REP. (D-TEXAS) 1
5/4 Jared Polis REP. (D-COLO.) 1
5/4 Jim Cooper REP. (D-TENN.) 1
5/4 José E. Serrano REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
5/4 Joyce Beatty REP. (D-OHIO) 1
5/4 Julia Brownley REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
5/4 Kathleen Rice REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
5/4 Adam Schiff REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
5/4 Adam Smith REP. (D-WASH.) 1
5/4 Daniel Kildee REP. (D-MICH.) 1
5/4 Derek Kilmer REP. (D-WASH.) 1
5/4 Ed Perlmutter REP. (D-COLO.) 1
5/4 Eddie Bernice Johnson REP. (D-TEXAS) 1
5/4 Filemon Vela REP. (D-TEXAS) 1
5/4 Kathy Castor REP. (D-FLA.) 1
5/4 Lucille Roybal-Allard REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
5/4 Kurt Schrader REP. (D-ORE.) 1
5/4 Sean Patrick Maloney REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
5/4 Rubén Hinojosa REP. (D-TEXAS) 1
5/4 Patrick Murphy REP. (D-FLA.) 1
5/4 Mike Thompson REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
5/4 Marc Veasey REP. (D-TEXAS) 1
5/4 Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly REP. (D-VA.) 1
4/29 Emanuel Cleaver REP. (D-MO.) 1
4/24 Robert P. Casey, Jr. SEN. (D-PA.) 5
4/23 Steve Israel REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
4/23 Cory A. Booker SEN. (D-N.J.) 5
4/16 Gina M. Raimondo GOV. (D-R.I.) 10
4/15 Jim McDermott REP. (D-WASH.) 1
4/14 Rosa L. DeLauro REP. (D-CONN.) 1
4/13 Tom Udall SEN. (D-N.M.) 5
4/12 Jeanne Shaheen SEN. (D-N.H.) 5
4/12 Karen Bass REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
4/12 Andrew M. Cuomo GOV. (D-N.Y.) 10
4/12 Debbie Dingell REP. (D-MICH.) 1
4/12 Rick Larsen REP. (D-WASH.) 1
4/11 Nydia M. Velázquez REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
4/11 Jerrold Nadler REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
2/2 Brian Schatz SEN. (D-HAWAII) 5
1/29 Alcee L. Hastings REP. (D-FLA.) 1
1/27 Madeleine Bordallo REP. (D-GUAM) 1
1/27 Judy Chu REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
1/27 Ami Bera REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
1/27 Mazie K. Hirono SEN. (D-HAWAII) 5
1/27 Mark Takano REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
1/27 Ted Lieu REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
1/27 Tammy Duckworth REP. (D-ILL.) 1
12/18/14 Bill Nelson SEN. (D-FLA.) 5
12/16 Al Franken SEN. (D-MINN.) 5
12/1 Benjamin L. Cardin SEN. (D-MD.) 5
12/1 Barbara A. Mikulski SEN. (D-MD.) 5
11/14 Terry McAuliffe GOV. (D-VA.) 10
11/10 Charles B. Rangel REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
10/14 Nita Lowey REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
8/5 Mark R. Warner SEN. (D-VA.) 5
7/12 Michelle Lujan Grisham REP. (D-N.M.) 1
7/12 Martin Heinrich SEN. (D-N.M.) 5
6/21 Patrick J. Leahy SEN. (D-VT.) 5
6/7 Richard Blumenthal SEN. (D-CONN.) 5
6/6 Robin Kelly REP. (D-ILL.) 1
6/6 Bill Foster REP. (D-ILL.) 1
6/5 Richard J. Durbin SEN. (D-ILL.) 5
6/4 Amy Klobuchar SEN. (D-MINN.) 5
5/22 Debbie Stabenow SEN. (D-MICH.) 5
5/4 Mark Takai REP. (D-HAWAII) 1
5/3 Tim Kaine SEN. (D-VA.) 5
2/7 Ted Deutch REP. (D-FLA.) 1
1/31 Joseph Crowley REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
1/29 Joe Manchin III SEN. (D-W.VA.) 5
1/28 Gregory W. Meeks REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
1/28 Mike Honda REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
1/28 Luis Gutierrez REP. (D-ILL.) 1
1/28 Louise Slaughter REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
1/28 Lois Frankel REP. (D-FLA.) 1
1/28 John Delaney REP. (D-MD.) 1
1/28 Joaquin Castro REP. (D-TEXAS) 1
1/28 Jim Langevin REP. (D-R.I.) 1
1/28 Sander Levin REP. (D-MICH.) 1
1/28 Jan Schakowsky REP. (D-ILL.) 1
1/28 Henry C. "Hank" Jr. Johnson REP. (D-GA.) 1
1/28 Richard E. Neal REP. (D-MASS.) 1
1/28 Grace Meng REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
1/28 Gene Green REP. (D-TEXAS) 1
1/28 Frederica Wilson REP. (D-FLA.) 1
1/28 Doris O. Matsui REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
1/28 David Scott REP. (D-GA.) 1
1/28 David Cicilline REP. (D-R.I.) 1
1/28 Danny K. Davis REP. (D-ILL.) 1
1/28 Chellie Pingree REP. (D-MAINE) 1
1/28 Sheila Jackson Lee REP. (D-TEXAS) 1
1/28 Brian Higgins REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
1/28 Sheldon Whitehouse SEN. (D-R.I.) 5
1/28 Terri A. Sewell REP. (D-ALA.) 1
1/28 Stephen F. Lynch REP. (D-MASS.) 1
1/28 Janice Hahn REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
1/28 Steny H. Hoyer REP. (D-MD.) 1
1/28 John Lewis REP. (D-GA.) 1
1/28 Cedric Richmond REP. (D-LA.) 1
1/13 Chris Van Hollen REP. (D-MD.) 1
12/12/13 Dianne Feinstein SEN. (D-CALIF.) 5
11/17 Kirsten E. Gillibrand SEN. (D-N.Y.) 5
11/11 Carolyn Maloney REP. (D-N.Y.) 1
11/8 Patty Murray SEN. (D-WASH.) 5
11/7 Mark Dayton GOV. (D-MINN.) 10
11/5 Tim Ryan REP. (D-OHIO) 1
11/2 Charles E. Schumer SEN. (D-N.Y.) 5
10/30 Barbara Boxer SEN. (D-CALIF.) 5
8/18 Dina Titus REP. (D-NEV.) 1
6/18 Claire McCaskill SEN. (D-MO.) 5
Martin O'Malley
7/24/15 Eric Swalwell REP. (D-CALIF.) 1
Cha
(297,304 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....if you go to the comprehensive Wikipedia list posted elsewhere in this thread (an expansion of your list), you'll discover that Hillary Clinton has been endorsed by the other Senator from Vermont, the Governor of Vermont, and even the Mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)And only ten in the last two months.
H'uh. well, that's something. I'm not quite sure what, but it's something.
djean111
(14,255 posts)So, feh. Anyway, if Liz Warren endorsed Hillary, it would not change my support of Bernie.
George II
(67,782 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)so I'll take that as .. yes it must be true.
But I'd like to know more as to why, if you know.
How are Congressional Dems being obliged to 'endorse' Hillary?
Because Sanders is still technically an "Independent"? or?
that still gives them 3 choices (Webb, Clinton, and O'Malley) and with one exception those who endorsed, endorsed Clinton.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Main article: Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016
Former state governors
Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota, member of the Independence Party of Minnesota[209]
State executive officials
Doug Hoffer, Vermont Auditor of Accounts[210]
Dudley Dudley, former New Hampshire Executive Council member, 1984 Democratic nominee for New Hampshire's 1st congressional district, Democratic political activist[211]
Caroline French, former New Hampshire Executive Council member, Democratic activist from New Hampshire[84][212]
State and local legislators
Tim Ashe, Vermont State Senator[213]
Mollie Burke, Vermont State Representative[214]
Karen Clark, Minnesota State Representative[215]
Robin Chestnut-Tangerman, Vermont State Representative[214]
Amanda Curtis, Montana State Representative[216]
Susan Davis, Vermont State Representative[214]
Diana Gonzalez, Vermont State Representative[214]
Sandy Haas, Vermont State Representative[214]
Emily Hague, at-large Keene, New Hampshire City Councillor[217]
Troy Jackson, Maine Senator, former Maine Senate majority leader, Democratic National Committee member[218]
Juan Mendez, Arizona State Representative[219]
Christopher Pearson, Vermont State Representative[220]
Anthony Pollina, Vermont State Senator[214]
Amy Sheldon, Vermont State Representative[214]
David Zuckerman, Vermont State Senator[214]
Daryl Beall, former Iowa State Senator[221]
Burt Cohen, former New Hampshire State Senator[84]
Tom Hayden, activist, author and former California State Senator[222]
Mayors and other municipal leaders
Daryl Justin Finizio, mayor of New London, Connecticut[223]
Rod Sullivan, Johnson County, Iowa supervisor[224]
Internet, radio, and television personalities
Dan Carlin, political commentator, amateur historian, and podcaster[225]
John Fugelsang, comedian, political commentator, host of Tell Me Everything on SiriusXM Insight[226]
Thom Hartmann, radio host, author, former psychotherapist, entrepreneur, and progressive political commentator[227]
Jim Hightower, columnist, political activist, and former commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture[228]
Mike Malloy, liberal radio broadcaster[227]
Bill Moyers, journalist, political commentator, and former White House Press Secretary[229]
Tyler Oakley, YouTube, television, and podcast personality, humorist, author and advocate[230]
David Pakman, host of The David Pakman Show syndicated on radio, television, and online[231]
Mike Papantonio, attorney and radio talk show host (Ring of Fire)[232]
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., radio host, environmental activist, author, and attorney. Son of Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, and nephew of John F. Kennedy.[233]
Sam Seder, radio & TV talk show host for Ring of Fire Radio and Majority.fm, fill-in host for MSNBC and Current's Countdown[233]
Bill Press, talk radio host, liberal political commentator and author, former chairman of the California Democratic Party[227]
Ed Schultz, political commentator, author, and television and radio host[234]
Cenk Uygur, internet host, former MSNBC contributor, and progressive political commentator[235]
Celebrities
Azealia Banks, Rapper, singer, and songwriter[236]
Lewis Black, comedian, author, playwright, social critic, and actor[237]
Dan Campbell, lead singer of The Wonder Years[238]
Julian Casablancas, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, lead singer of The Strokes[239]
David Crosby, singer-songwriter and musician[240]
Danny DeVito, actor, producer, and director[241]
Stanley Dural, Jr., better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, musician[242]
Mia Farrow, actress, activist, and former fashion model[243]
Deidre Hall, actress and activist[222]
Mimi Kennedy, actress, author, activist[222]
Rachelle Lefevre, Canadian actress, activist [244]
Justin Long, actor[245]
Brandon McCartney, better known as Lil B, rapper, record producer, author and motivational speaker.[246]
Anaïs Mitchell, singer-songwriter and musician[247]
Nicole Nelson, singer from The Voice[248]
Patton Oswalt, comedian, writer, and actor[249]
Thomas Wesley Pentz, better known as Diplo, DJ, music producer, rapper and songwriter[250]
Michael Render, better known as Killer Mike, hip-hop recording artist, activist, and half of Run the Jewels[251][252][253]
Mark Ruffalo, actor, director, producer and screenwriter[254]
Susan Sarandon, actress and activist[255]
Sarah Silverman, stand-up comedian, writer, producer and actress[256]
Cole Sprouse, actor [257]
Tennessee Thomas, musician, model and actress[258][259][260][261]
Wil Wheaton, actor, writer and blogger.[262]
Lucinda Williams, singer-songwriter[263]
Neil Young, singer-songwriter and musician[264]
Individuals
Julia Barnes, former executive director of the Vermont Democratic Party[265]
Noam Chomsky, linguist, philosopher, activist[266]
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben & Jerry's[267][268]
Larry Cohen, former president of the Communications Workers of America and founder of American Rights at Work[269][270]
Jodie Evans, co-founder of CODEPINK[271]
Glenn Greenwald, American lawyer, journalist, author, and co-editor of The Intercept[272]
Zaid Jilani, blogger and campaigner[273]
Daniel Kellison, television and film producer[274]
Bill McKibben, environmentalist, author, journalist, founder of climate change group 350.org[275]
David McReynolds, former Socialist Party USA presidential nominee (1980 & 2000), pacifist activist, former chair of the War Resisters League (198688)[276]
John Nichols, progressive journalist and author[277]
Annabel Park, documentary filmmaker, political activist and community volunteer[278]
Stanley Sheinbaum, American peace and human rights activist[279]
Richard Stallman, software freedom activist and computer programmer, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation[280]
Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of Jacobin magazine[278]
Matt Taibbi, author and journalist[281]
Marianne Williamson, spiritual teacher, author, lecturer, founder of Project Angel Food[282]
Newspapers and other media
Addison County Independent[283]
Ring of Fire, American talk radio program hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder.[284]
Organizations
Democratic Socialists of America, democratic socialist organization and a member of Socialist International[285]
Friends of the Earth (US), non-governmental environmental organization [286]
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 2222 in Massachusetts[287]
IBEW Local 159 in Madison, Wisconsin[287]
Lithographers Local One-L (Teamsters affiliate)[287]
The Middle Class Action Project, an organization that promotes Democratic policy [288]
Occupy Wall Street, protest movement against social and income inequality[289]
Progressive Democrats of America, a progressive political organization and political action committee[290]
Ready For Warren, coalition of progressive activists originally supporting a draft effort for Senator Elizabeth Warren (will change name to Ready To Fight)[291]
Socialist Alternative, a socialist political party and member of Committee for a Workers' International[292]
Tri-Valley Democratic Club (Tri-Valley, California)[293]
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, labor union[294]
Vermont National Education Association[287][295]
Vermont Progressive Party[213]
Vermont and South Carolina divisions of the AFL-CIO[296][297]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorsements_for_the_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)but I'll trust DU folks to know your "complete list" is 99% bullshit.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)the chart, you'd understand what Mr Silver is saying and why he is saying it. And then, take up your issues with him.
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-endorsement-primary/
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Before posting bullshit.
The point of the chart is not to document a beauty contest. It's to determine who has the deepest support in the national party infrastructure, because it can be predictive of the national primary outcome, especially combined with other factors. The endorsements you list are not included because they aren't relevent enough to that.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)are playing favorites. The list we have are not relevant enough - that is precious. And one of the big reasons we are not for Hillary. We are the little people - we are not relevant. We do not have $2,700 to get into her dinners - we are not relevant.
When Al Franken sent me an email asking for money for Hillary I emailed him back and told him to stop sending me junk mail.
When Amy Klobuchar played surrogate for Hillary I wrote her explaining why I did not agree and reminded her that she had refused to support either the TPA or the TPP but now she was supporting Hillary?
When I worked campaigns for JFK and McGovern they called us communists. I wonder is that better or worse than not being relevant?
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NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Very nice. Should be an op.
George II
(67,782 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)(Seriously, not a dig on Clinton, but some funny shit about Netanyahu)
Recursion
(56,582 posts)And the article quotes Cohen's, et al, research on how important those specific endorsements are.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)It's going to be a blowout.
George II
(67,782 posts)But here's a quick summary of Democratic endorsements (sans "points", just number of endorsements):
Hillary Clinton:
Governors: 7
Representatives: 90 (48% of Democrats)
Senators: 29 (66% of Democrats)
Total: 126
O'Malley:
Governors: 0
Representatives: 1 (0.5% of Democrats)
Senators: 0 (0% of Democrats)
Total: 1
Sanders:
Governors: 0
Representatives: 0 (0% of Democrats)
Senators: 0 (0% of Democrats)
Total: 0
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)I notice that question posed up-string has not been really answered satisfactorily.
George II
(67,782 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)so it's silly to list their 'endorsements'
George II
(67,782 posts)Do you think Senator Angus King is obliged in some way to endorse Senator Sanders? Will he do so?
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)It was a snarky distraction .. trying to dodge the question, by posing another.
George II
(67,782 posts)....can answer.
You might try calling the office of one of the ~120 Congressional Democrats who endorsed Hillary Clinton to ask him/her the rationale or "motive" behind such an endorsement.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)I've got a number of Democratic office-holders in Congress.
I'll try to remember to keep you posted on what I find out,
or do another OP on it.
Thanks for the excellent suggestion
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)As far as members of Congress obliged to endorse Hillary, I saw one of Iowa's representatives had endorsed O'Malley and not all DNC Congressional members has endorsed. This doesn't say the DNC members are obliged to endorse Hillary.
postatomic
(1,771 posts)Sorry to take a campaign battle cry and belittle it, but this is pretty damn significant. I really think that Senator Sanders, Independent, Vermont has reached his peak.
I'm a Wiki-contributor and I have a friend in Oregon that is supporting Sanders. I guess I could add her name to the Wiki List.
There is a difference between Endorsing and Supporting as the dialogue in the non-Wiki list points out.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)And I could count on zero fingers the number who could tell me how to vote. That includes Bernie Sanders btw.
Whether congressional Democrats are required to endorse only a Democrat, I don't know, but I doubt it.
What I do suspect is that somebody from the Clinton mafia scurried around to every Democratic officeholder they could find, before Clinton declared her candidacy, and secured endorsements from them. Not that that's illegal, its probably smart politics. But I suspect that some of those early endorsers may be suffering buyers remorse by now and even more will in the future as the campaign turns even uglier.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)lack of endorsements so I doubt this is true. It seems strange in the Congressional body Bernie does not have an endorsement, makes you wonder why. This would be the same group a president is going to have to work with.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)doesn't even have 1 endorsement (within Congress) yet? Well, at least he has Dennis Rodman!