Bernie hopes he can influence the Platform or something. It's ironic. The
two major parties are running candidates for President that a majority of
Americans hate. The very well behaved Democrats will vote against Trump
while pretending that Hillary is a Progressive. It makes me want to vomit.
Miriam
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I've never gone to a race track or bet on a horse. But I still can
understand the feelings of the fellow who put his paycheck on a long shot,
only to see his horse...and his paycheck, fading in the back stretch.
If the Democrat Central Committee's horse...Hillary...comes in, as it now
appears she will, then I am out of the race totally.
Of course it was never "My" race to begin with. I chose to root for Bernie
because I can't see any other outsider party making a bit of difference in
the lives of the Working/Lower Classes. As it turns out, even tame old
Bernie is too, too radical for the Democrat Central Committee. He is the
Henry Wallace of the 21st Century.
So when the finish flag goes up, or whatever they do to signal the end of a
horse race, I'll wander off to the back roads and the tumble down shanties,
and look around for Jill Stein. Maybe I can buy her a cup of coffee or a
pot of green tea.
Carl Jarvis
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Trump Edge Closer to Party Nominations, as Sanders Softens His
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Clinton and Trump Edge Closer to Party Nominations, as Sanders Softens
His Confrontational Tone By Steven Rosenfeld [1] / AlterNet [2] April
26, 2016 Donald Trump moved closer to the Republican nomination on
Tuesday as he swept [3] five mid-Atlantic primaries, while Bernie
Sanders slipped further behind [3] Hillary Clinton-despite winning the
smallest state, Rhode Island, and promising to keep campaigning to
influence the Democratic Party's agenda.
Sanders' top campaign aides said they would meet Wednesday to discuss
[4] their plans for the rest of the race-where they vowed to compete
in all of the states including California. But they began to telegraph
they'd be pleased if the Democratic Party embraced his core proposals
such as making public universities tuition free and paying for that with a
tradingfor president."
tax.
"We are going to continue to work to be the nominee of the party,"
strategist Tad Devine told NPR, saying they will still try to convince
the party that he is a better candidate against Trump-especially if he
wins California. But that posture was tempered by the reality that
they began Tuesday 240 pledged delegates behind Clinton and ended the
day more than [3] 300 delegates behind Clinton.
"Bernie has made it clear that it's very important that the next
president be a Democrat," Devine said. "Whatever happens in terms of
the outcome of this process, he's going to support the Democratic nominee
Clinton, speaking in Philadelphia after winning Pennsylvania, whichmajority.
had about half of Tuesday's Democratic delegates in play, as well as
winning Maryland and Delaware soon after polls closed, praised Sanders
and his supporters-more than suggesting she saw herself as the
nominee. (In Connecticut, the fifth state voting Tuesday, Clinton led
slightly, meaning they would split the delegates.) "I applaud Sen.
Sanders and his millions of supporters for challenging us to get
unaccountable money out of our politics, and giving greater emphasis
to closing the gap of inequality-and I know together that we will get
that done," Clinton said. "Because whether you support Sen. Sanders or
you support me, there's much more that unites us than divides us."
"We all agree that wages are too low and inequality is too high, that
Wall Street can never again be allowed to threaten Main Street, and we
should expand Social Security-not cut or privatize it," she continued.
"We Democrats agree that college should be affordable to all, student
debt shouldn't hold anyone back."
Tough Night for Progressives
Down the ballot, a handful of progressives running for Congress also
had disappointing nights, led [5] by four-term Maryland Congresswoman
Donna Edwards' loss to Congressman Chris Van Hollen in a bid for that
state's U.S.
Senate nomination. Edwards was backed by many progressives who wanted
her to be the nation's second African-American woman senator.
One silver lining for progressive primary candidates on Tuesday seemed
to be Jamie Raskin, a Maryland state senator and constitutional law
professor who was leading in the Democratic primary for the House seat
that Van Hollen gave up to run for the Senate. Raskin was running
against high-profile candidate Christie Matthews, wife of longtime
MSNBC host and Beltway establishment figure Chris Matthews. The
winners of Maryland's Democratic primary are expected to be elected in
November.
In Pennsylvania, Katie McGinty, an environmentalist-turned-regulator
who worked in Bill Clinton's White House, won [6] the Senate primary,
putting a strong Clinton ally in the position to challenge one of the
most vulnerable Republican incumbents, Sen. Pat Toomey. That race is
seen as one of a handful in 2016 where Democrats might retake a Senate
Trump SweepCitizen's Guide to Voting"
But most of all, Tuesday's primaries belonged to Trump. He won handily
in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and
Delaware-getting more than 60 percent in several states. The delegate
math is more complex on the GOP side than the Democratic side, but he
ended the day with more than 925 delegates of the 1,237 needed for the
nomination on the first vote at the Republican National Convention.
"I consider myself the presumptive nominee," Trump said, replying to
press questions after a short speech from New York City. "You know the
best way to beat the system is having things like this, where you get
record-setting votes, where you get record-setting delegates. I use
the analogy of the boxer. When the boxer knocks out the other boxer,
you don't have to wait around for a decision."
It also appeared after Tuesday that Ted Cruz cannot win enough
delegates in the remaining 10 states that have not yet voted to win
the nomination on the first vote, according to media experts tracking
delegate totals. Cruz's team said that should he win Indiana's primary
next week that Trump will not clear the 1,237 delegates needed for
first ballot nomination, launching the first contested national
political convention in decades.
That strategy is the latest embraced by the GOP's stop-Trump faction.
This weekend, Cruz and John Kasich announced a deal to stay out of
each other's way in a few upcoming states-with Kasich staying out of
Indiana and Cruz staying out of Oregon-to thwart Trump. However, a day
later Kasich made statements casting doubt on that deal, and Oregon
media reported that he does not [7] even have a candidate statement in
its state primary voter guide.
Steven Rosenfeld covers national political issues for AlterNet,
including America's retirement crisis, democracy and voting rights,
and campaigns and elections. He is the author of "Count My Vote: A
(AlterNet Books, 2008).Wall St.
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His Confrontational Tone By Steven Rosenfeld [1] / AlterNet [2] April
26, 2016 Donald Trump moved closer to the Republican nomination on
Tuesday as he swept [3] five mid-Atlantic primaries, while Bernie
Sanders slipped further behind [3] Hillary Clinton-despite winning the
smallest state, Rhode Island, and promising to keep campaigning to
influence the Democratic Party's agenda.
Sanders' top campaign aides said they would meet Wednesday to discuss
[4] their plans for the rest of the race-where they vowed to compete
in all of the states including California. But they began to telegraph
they'd be pleased if the Democratic Party embraced his core proposals
such as making public universities tuition free and paying for that with a
tradingfor president."
tax.
"We are going to continue to work to be the nominee of the party,"
strategist Tad Devine told NPR, saying they will still try to convince
the party that he is a better candidate against Trump-especially if he
wins California. But that posture was tempered by the reality that
they began Tuesday 240 pledged delegates behind Clinton and ended the
day more than [3] 300 delegates behind Clinton.
"Bernie has made it clear that it's very important that the next
president be a Democrat," Devine said. "Whatever happens in terms of
the outcome of this process, he's going to support the Democratic nominee
Clinton, speaking in Philadelphia after winning Pennsylvania, whichmajority.
had about half of Tuesday's Democratic delegates in play, as well as
winning Maryland and Delaware soon after polls closed, praised Sanders
and his supporters-more than suggesting she saw herself as the
nominee. (In Connecticut, the fifth state voting Tuesday, Clinton led
slightly, meaning they would split the delegates.) "I applaud Sen.
Sanders and his millions of supporters for challenging us to get
unaccountable money out of our politics, and giving greater emphasis
to closing the gap of inequality-and I know together that we will get
that done," Clinton said. "Because whether you support Sen. Sanders or
you support me, there's much more that unites us than divides us."
"We all agree that wages are too low and inequality is too high, that
Wall Street can never again be allowed to threaten Main Street, and we
should expand Social Security-not cut or privatize it," she continued.
"We Democrats agree that college should be affordable to all, student
debt shouldn't hold anyone back."
Tough Night for Progressives
Down the ballot, a handful of progressives running for Congress also
had disappointing nights, led [5] by four-term Maryland Congresswoman
Donna Edwards' loss to Congressman Chris Van Hollen in a bid for that
state's U.S.
Senate nomination. Edwards was backed by many progressives who wanted
her to be the nation's second African-American woman senator.
One silver lining for progressive primary candidates on Tuesday seemed
to be Jamie Raskin, a Maryland state senator and constitutional law
professor who was leading in the Democratic primary for the House seat
that Van Hollen gave up to run for the Senate. Raskin was running
against high-profile candidate Christie Matthews, wife of longtime
MSNBC host and Beltway establishment figure Chris Matthews. The
winners of Maryland's Democratic primary are expected to be elected in
November.
In Pennsylvania, Katie McGinty, an environmentalist-turned-regulator
who worked in Bill Clinton's White House, won [6] the Senate primary,
putting a strong Clinton ally in the position to challenge one of the
most vulnerable Republican incumbents, Sen. Pat Toomey. That race is
seen as one of a handful in 2016 where Democrats might retake a Senate
Trump SweepCitizen's Guide to Voting"
But most of all, Tuesday's primaries belonged to Trump. He won handily
in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and
Delaware-getting more than 60 percent in several states. The delegate
math is more complex on the GOP side than the Democratic side, but he
ended the day with more than 925 delegates of the 1,237 needed for the
nomination on the first vote at the Republican National Convention.
"I consider myself the presumptive nominee," Trump said, replying to
press questions after a short speech from New York City. "You know the
best way to beat the system is having things like this, where you get
record-setting votes, where you get record-setting delegates. I use
the analogy of the boxer. When the boxer knocks out the other boxer,
you don't have to wait around for a decision."
It also appeared after Tuesday that Ted Cruz cannot win enough
delegates in the remaining 10 states that have not yet voted to win
the nomination on the first vote, according to media experts tracking
delegate totals. Cruz's team said that should he win Indiana's primary
next week that Trump will not clear the 1,237 delegates needed for
first ballot nomination, launching the first contested national
political convention in decades.
That strategy is the latest embraced by the GOP's stop-Trump faction.
This weekend, Cruz and John Kasich announced a deal to stay out of
each other's way in a few upcoming states-with Kasich staying out of
Indiana and Cruz staying out of Oregon-to thwart Trump. However, a day
later Kasich made statements casting doubt on that deal, and Oregon
media reported that he does not [7] even have a candidate statement in
its state primary voter guide.
Steven Rosenfeld covers national political issues for AlterNet,
including America's retirement crisis, democracy and voting rights,
and campaigns and elections. He is the author of "Count My Vote: A
(AlterNet Books, 2008).
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