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Election results by state by year.
Democrats will get 50,000,000 votes with their eyes closed. Pass your mouse over each state:
http://www.electproject.org/2012g
Democrats will get 50,000,000 votes with their eyes closed. Pass your mouse over each state:
http://www.electproject.org/2012g
You heard it here first, folks. Clinton gets 70,000,000 easy.
Who cares how many she gets? The presidency is not decided by popular vote. Ask Al Gore about that.
The crucial factor is turnout in a handful of swing states, eg Ohio, Florida, Virginia, NC, Pennsylvania.
Romney lost because his lackluster campaign did not turn out enough white voters in those states. All Trump has to do is get 3 or 4 % more white voters to turn out in a handful of states and he wins. Unlike Romney, Trump has demonstrated crossover appeal to blue collar democrats and has energized the party's base.
Hillary by contrast faces an enthusiasm gap and the potential loss of disaffected Bernie voters.
The crucial factor is turnout in a handful of swing states, eg Ohio, Florida, Virginia, NC, Pennsylvania.
Romney lost because his lackluster campaign did not turn out enough white voters in those states. All Trump has to do is get 3 or 4 % more white voters to turn out in a handful of states and he wins. Unlike Romney, Trump has demonstrated crossover appeal to blue collar democrats and has energized the party's base.
Hillary by contrast faces an enthusiasm gap and the potential loss of disaffected Bernie voters.
May Trump Vaya Con Dios if that is his attitude. Gore was a matter of hundreds. This is a matter of millions. There are only a finite amount of votes. 70,000,000 is, by my back of the envelope math, unbeatable unless Trump gets the dead to vote.
It does happen in Chicago so there is precedent.
Let the games begin.
First on CNN: FBI interviews Clinton aides including Huma Abedin as part of email probe
(CNN)Some of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, including her longtime adviser Huma Abedin, have provided interviews to federal investigators, as the FBI probe into the security of her private email server nears completion, U.S. officials briefed on the investigation tell CNN. The investigation is still ongoing, but so far investigators haven't found evidence to prove that Clinton willfully violated the law the U.S. officials say...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/fbi-interviews-huma-abedin-clinton-aide/index.html
First on CNN: FBI interviews Clinton aides including Huma Abedin as part of email probe
(CNN)Some of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, including her longtime adviser Huma Abedin, have provided interviews to federal investigators, as the FBI probe into the security of her private email server nears completion, U.S. officials briefed on the investigation tell CNN. The investigation is still ongoing, but so far investigators haven't found evidence to prove that Clinton willfully violated the law the U.S. officials say...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/fbi-interviews-huma-abedin-clinton-aide/index.html
She is merely Clinton's fall person for this.
Sanders will be well-equipped to upend Democratic conventionWASHINGTON — If Bernie Sanders wants to upend the Democratic National Convention, he'll likely have all the tools he needs.
The Democratic nomination increasingly seems Hillary Clinton's for the taking. But the number of pledged delegates Sanders will have collected by the time the convention begins July 25 should give him a sizable presence on convention committees and a strong voice in shaping the Democratic Party's rules and platform to include some of his top priorities.
Tad Devine, one of Sanders' top advisers and a veteran of contentious convention battles, said he expects “good will” at the convention between Sanders and Clinton, and agreement on a number of issues. But he raised the possibility that Sanders will play hardball if negotiations fail.
Devine said Sanders should have enough committee votes to file “minority reports” — dissents from positions held by the majority of delegates at the convention. Using that tool could mire the proceedings in debate and votes if Clinton won't agree on issues important to Sanders.
Democratic Party rules allow for minority reports at the request of members representing 25% of total votes on the convention’s Platform, Credentials and Rules committees. Sanders has won about 45% of the pledged delegates awarded in state primaries and caucuses so far. Most committee members are awarded to candidates based on the results of those contests....
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ped-to-upend-democratic-convention/ar-BBsGCCq
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Sanders accuses DNC of favoring Clinton at convention
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is accusing the Democratic National Committee (DNC) of favoring Hillary Clinton by giving her supporters more committee representation at the party's July nominating convention.
In a Friday letter to DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Sanders said he was disappointed to see that of 45 people he recommended to serve on three standing committees, only three were selected.
He also noted that none of his supporters was assigned to the "very important" rules committee, which will dictate procedure for the convention.
"If we are to have a unified party in the fall, no matter who wins the nomination, we cannot have a Democratic National Convention in which the views of millions of people who participated in the Democratic nominating process are unrepresented in the committee membership appointed by you, the Chair," Sanders wrote...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...g-clinton-at-convention/ar-BBsIXrm?li=BBnb7Kz
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is accusing the Democratic National Committee (DNC) of favoring Hillary Clinton by giving her supporters more committee representation at the party's July nominating convention.
In a Friday letter to DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Sanders said he was disappointed to see that of 45 people he recommended to serve on three standing committees, only three were selected.
He also noted that none of his supporters was assigned to the "very important" rules committee, which will dictate procedure for the convention.
"If we are to have a unified party in the fall, no matter who wins the nomination, we cannot have a Democratic National Convention in which the views of millions of people who participated in the Democratic nominating process are unrepresented in the committee membership appointed by you, the Chair," Sanders wrote...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...g-clinton-at-convention/ar-BBsIXrm?li=BBnb7Kz