They get nonstop attention from the candidates for six months, and I get virtually nothing.

Not to mention the complete inanity of the caucus process, one that draws minuscule turnout and excludes a large number of people who work shifts, are deployed overseas, or have kids at home. If we used the caucus process for a general election, even this Supreme Court would strike it down as restrictive and unconstitutional.

I can drive 20 minutes and be on the front lines of any campaign.

He's my choice, and his failure to catch on so far is depressing.

If you are a republican.

NOT if you are the anointed, guaranteed, expected one.

If she falls below 50%, she will have to worry more publicly, rather than just privately. Already we are seeing bizarre posts about Bernie, attacks from the side, sniping, and character assassination by certain members here - as if they were on her campaign staff.

Much better to be at 24% looking up at the frontrunner.

it's not always wise to be the rabbit and trip and fall on the last lap from exhaustion finishing last.

I don't want anyone to ever think they have the nomination wrapped up until the actual votes start coming in. It seems like a bad sign for the party if no other candidates can close the gap. Low unfavorably ratings also sound like a good sign for voter enthusiasm to me.

Although I think we could do much better than Hillary, she still is far better than any of the Klown Kar Kandidates.

heh, come to think of it, I heard both CNN AND Msnbc refer to them as a Klown Kar.

Bernie is by far the best candidate. Only unfamiliarity with him and the truth stands between him and victory.

The repugs would LOVE to run against him. IMHO

I sincerely doubt that he can win any red states. But I also suspect that he can win in the blue states (especially if the Republican candidate is further right). Can he win any purple states? I really have no idea.

It is a populist issue that Bernie supports that Clinton hasn't been actively supporting, and many other Republicans haven't either. There are quite a few other populist issues that Bernie supports that one can't allow the corporatist media to continue to label as 'far left' when they appeal to a majority of Americans and therefore can't be just conveniently pigeonholed as "far left". I personally talked to a Republican the other night who tried to rationalize his rejection of these bills by reaching back to his studying of the John Birch Society and their rejection of other efforts to get rid of our national sovereignty as well. I pushed aside the John Birch Society as something I wasn't going to look at, but I did have a good discussion with him where we shared a lot of views on rejecting what many as Democrats and Republicans reject when it has that weakness and moves away from what our constitutional founders wanted in this country. I wouldn't be surprised if he might vote for Bernie at some point too.

I think people will be surprised how many thinking Republicans and independents will be building up Bernie's base in addition to "left wing" Democrats.

I wish Bloomberg would publish the questions and cross tabs.

And she gets a higher mark on foreign policy by 84-3! and 72-12% on beating the Rethuglicans, the latter of which is all I really give a hoot about.

I think she gets points by virtue of having been Secretary of State, as opposed to any accomplishments she actually had as Secretary of State. What were those again?

She repaired relationships with our allies that was fractured during the Bush years...She began the rapprochement with Iran that is going to result in an agreement to forestall their nuclear weapons program. She made human rights, women's rights and GLBTQ rights a major part of her agenda.


Now that we got that out of the way let's now talk about the six out of every seven Iowa and New Hampshire Democrats who indicated they believe Senator Sanders is a weak general election candidate and the six out of seven Iowa Democrats and the four out of five New Hampshire Democrats who indicate Hillary Clinton will be better at getting things done

And yes, one of my pet peeves about most polls is they don't give you enough information about exactly what was asked.

Big jump

Bernie continues to rise on each polls... and I think the summer will show that people will start learning about Bernie and discovering the contrast with him and Ms. Clinton.

Within 10 in NH and within 24 in Iowa. No wonder Hillary surrogates were already dismissing Iowa and NH as possible losses. These gains will continue.

we'll see the Clinton firewall take effect. I wouldn't count on NH. Just a reality check. Remember this?

has a tough road ahead to upset the money-name juggernaut that is Hillary Clinton.

I also didn't realize that Iowa was a New England enclave, I'll have to go back to the map.

Every Democrat knows who Hillary Clinton is and what she has done. Bernie Sanders, the Senator from Vermont, not so much. Once people hear him, they like him.

"Her support is a mile wide and an inch deep."


"Every Democrat knows who Hillary Clinton is and what she has done."



The logical inference is they know what she's done and like her enough to vote for her.

It's not mutually exclusive.

There's only 1 First Lady and Secretary of State at a time so it's pretty difficult to get as much publicity being a Congressman and then Senator compared to FLOTUS and SOS.

He's done. Stick a fork in him.

but i quess if Bernie keeps growing his support as he has been doing he'll be at 300% in a few months. oh wait.