Discussion for article #240440
Bernie Corbyn = Jeremy Sanders
I’m waiting for the HRC supporters to remind us, again, that the email catastrophe is just a molehill, and no one cares about email, anyway.
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I am no Hillary supporter, but the poll did ask the question about Hillary’s email server (page 4):
- Has Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email and server while she was Secretary of State made you more likely or less likely to support her for the nomination? (Asked of Democratic primary voters)
More likely … 4%
Has not mattered … 74%
Less likely … 22%
So the “scandal” hasn’t even convinced the 30% hard-core that Republicans can always count on. If Republicans weren’t even worse offenders using RNC mail servers throughout the Bush years, maybe they could make a case, but as it is the stink of hypocrisy just won’t go away.
Edit: Never mind, I missed that little “Asked of Democratic voters”. Losing 22% of Democrats is a reason to worry.
OK, I’ll play. Why is she dropping, then?
How dare you release poll numbers with Clinton leading from behind! Why do you want to hurt her? I bet this Caitlin Cruz is a Republican plant.
In all seriousness, at what point does Hillary Clinton’s poll collapse become an issue. Originally I heard, “Well of course she’s going to have problems in New Hampshire. It’s really white and right next door to Vermont, but Sanders is never going to get traction in conservative Iowa.” Now he’s up double digit there too. Clinton was previously up in South Carolina by poll margins that would make North Korea blush and is down to 23% there. If Sanders overtakes her in South Carolina, is it an appropriate time for Hillary Clinton backers to panic?
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I am a “Hillary backer” - what would you suggest that I do, run screaming into the streets? Set myself on fire? Take hostages? I support Hillary and will vote for her. If Sen. Sanders wins the nomination I will support him and vote for him in the general election. What I don’t understand is why so many Sanders backers seem not only to want their choice to win but also that anyone who supports Clinton must be made to panic and suffer.
You misunderstand. I don’t want Clinton backers to suffer. A good percentage of her supporters are pragmatic and came out for her as the presumed nominee and strongest candidate for the general election. This isn’t a personal thing for me. I would have been happy to see her succeed Obama as President and saw Sanders’s run, as I think he saw it himself, as an instrument to push some of his ideas into discussion while the party corrinated Senator Clinton as the nominee. There was never supposed to be a race at all and I fully expected Clinton to beat Sanders like a parade drum for a couple of nominating events and be nominated by acclaimation. But it is a race. Sanders is a nice man with no campaign money and no party support who she should have smashed. This bodes poorly for the general election against a candidate who will have essentially unlimted funding, a huge organization and a built in media advantage. I want the Democratic candidate to win the election and I presume that Clinton supporters do too, but it’s looking more and more like Clinton’s numbers are getting worse by the day. Will there ever come a day where her supporters evaluate things by something other than their heartfelt desires?
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And to remind us that Bernie Sanders can’t beat the Republican pResidential nominee, even though most polls show that it is Hillary who can’t win.
This is a job for VP Joe Biden!
Actually, once people here what Biden has to say, they will think they are listening to Hillary with a man’s voice.
Where is your proof?
Trying to demonize Sanders supporters just shows how desperate you are.
Hillary supporters tried the same failed stunt eight years ago and failed. Why didn’t you learn this lesson back then?
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