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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Clinton sarcastically says on ABC that she'll release her speech transcripts when "everyone else does first."
That's totally fair in my eyes; almost every bigwig in politics/culture/business gives private speeches. Unless they do something criminal in there, they are under no (legal) obligation to tell anyone. Though in the era of cell phones, almost anything can be made public; Romney learned that the hard way.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
O'Malley dropped out after getting 0.5% in Iowa and endorsed Sanders a few days later.
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I meant in politics as a whole, Sanders is an outlier. And he himself has said that he doesn't think Clinton has to release her scripts. He's free to trumpet the fact that he's transparent on this front; but I don't think he sees much benefit in hammer Clinton's record here. He's better off staying on message.
edited 7th Feb '16 8:36:15 AM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Yeah. Ordinarily, I'd say that Sanders was being too nice by not slinging a little mud, but the fact is that Clinton's had far worse than mud slung at her and she's evolved a Teflon coating in the eyes of her broad support base.
I continue to hope for a brokered Republican convention, though. (No longer possible on the Democratic side, clear two-horse race.)
Well, it looks like Trump is set to win NH, so he's still viable for now.
Trump having lots of delegates is the only way the Convention is brokered, everyone else will likely do backroom deals (which means that Rubio gets the nod and Cruz probably gets the VP slot, unless Kasich rallies big time).
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Rubio is done. The establishment isn't going to break for him now. One of the governors will do at least okay in NH to stick around while at least one will leave, but whichever governor survives NH is going to become the establishment pick.
EDIT- On the polls, I'd wait til the samples come from after yesterday. Which might not be enough time given that its tomorrow, but hey...
edited 7th Feb '16 9:11:05 AM by FFShinra
Jim Webb, old school Reagan Republican who turned Southern/Blue Dog Democrat after Bush the lesser fucked up in Iraq.
edited 7th Feb '16 9:08:37 AM by TheWanderer
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |A view on the latest Republican debate
from The BBC, and what it might mean to be progressive in the USA
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edited 7th Feb '16 9:58:52 AM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling On"In a case of talk-show Interruptus, I misspoke on the Bill Maher show recently, and apologize for what’s been misinterpreted as implying young women aren’t serious in their politics. What I had just said on the same show was the opposite: young women are active, mad as hell about what’s happening to them, graduating in debt, but averaging a million dollars less over their lifetimes to pay it back. Whether they gravitate to Bernie or Hillary, young women are activist and feminist in greater numbers than ever before."
Steinem apologizes for implying women back Sanders to meet men
Primary rival Bernie Sanders comes in second with 696.92 state delegate equivalents, or 49.59 percent.
The total net change gives Sanders an additional 0.1053 state delegate equivalents and strips Clinton of 0.122 state delegate equivalents.
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