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Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2016 19:10:09 GMT
The Boston Globe is reporting today that Hillary Clinton will consider putting another woman on the ticket as her vice presidential nominee this fall. The first name on almost every Democrat's lips is Elizabeth Warren, the freshman Massachusetts senator who is beloved among liberals and regarded as the animating force behind the grass-roots energy that has propelled Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign against Clinton. Writes the Globe's Annie Linskey: Warren is one of the few Democratic women with national name recognition and a big following among progressives, a voting bloc Sanders has energized. Having Warren on the ticket could help Clinton stitch the party back together after a divisive primary. True. And also true that Democrats have surprisingly few women prominent enough nationally for Clinton to seriously consider them for the national ticket. Aside from Warren, the names you regularly hear are Sens. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.). The Globe's James Pindell floats Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) and former Arizona governor Janet Napolitano, as well.
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2016 18:57:07 GMT
The Democratic former secretary of state would start out with already exactly enough electoral votes to win the presidency, 270-191, based on states considered safe, likely and to lean toward either candidate. The ratings, which will be updated at least monthly until Election Day, are based on fundamentals — historical trends and demographics, plus reporting and polling (both public and private). But there is also the potential that this fall's presidential battlegrounds could be re-sorted — pitting white, working-class voters, whom Trump is appealing to, against Latino voters, who appear to be in Clinton's corner. Traditional ways of thinking about the map should and will be challenged. So in addition to our current ratings, we also explore several possibilities and scenarios, including Trump's potential path and even two potential ties, based on Trump doing well in the Upper Midwest and Clinton racking up wins in competitive states where the Latino vote is important. First, The May NPR General-Election Ratings Clinton 270-191 Safe D (164): California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine* (3 electoral votes), Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, D.C., Washington state Likely D (37): Maine (1 EV), Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon Lean D (69): Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin Pure Tossup (77): Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio Lean R (11): Arizona Likely R (44): Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska* (1 EV), Utah Safe R (136): Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska (4 EVs), North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Wyoming Clinton 332-206 Considering strictly who is leading in public surveys, as curated by the website RealClearPolitics, Clinton would be ahead by a landslide 332-206. But that includes states where polling is within the margin of error. And, at this point, polling is almost irrelevant. The cases have not been litigated yet; the campaigns have not been waged; neither candidate has even officially crossed the magic number to win his or her respective primaries yet. Bottom line: There is a lot of time to go. (One note about Colorado: The only poll in the RCP average of the state is one Quinnipiac poll from November showing Trump up 11. That's hardly a good indicator of what will happen this upcoming November, but for the sake of having something to go on, it's why we put Colorado red. For a more up-to-date primer on the state of play in Colorado with on-the-ground reporting, check out Colorado Public Radio's Ben Markus' report here. It notes how the gender gap may be the biggest hurdle for Trump in Colorado.)
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Post by Admin on May 24, 2016 19:03:04 GMT
Looking ahead to the general election in November, Donald Trump trails both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders among registered voters, although by slightly narrower margins than last month. Hillary Clinton now holds a six-point lead over Donald Trump, down from 10 points a month ago. Trump trails Bernie Sanders by 13 points, down from 17 points. Contentious primary contests on both sides haven't turned off many primary voters from voting for their party's candidate in a likely November match-up between Trump and Clinton, even if these candidates are not their preferred primary choice. Seventy-one percent of Republican voters who did not support Trump in the primaries would still vote for him against Clinton. On the Democratic side, 72 percent of Sanders supporters would vote for Clinton against Donald Trump.
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Post by Admin on Jun 7, 2016 18:55:43 GMT
Hillary Clinton has secured enough delegates to be the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, according to an updated count by The Associated Press. She is the first woman ever to head a major-party ticket in this country. New superdelegate commitments, party leaders and elected officials, have put her over the threshold of 2,383 necessary to be the nominee. She was widely expected to cross the threshold Tuesday when polls closed at 8 p.m. ET in New Jersey, as she was just 23 delegates short. But the AP canvassed more undeclared superdelegates and enough came forward to publicly declare their support for Clinton Monday night ahead of voting Tuesday. Tuesday will see one of the biggest voting days of the Democratic primary with 694 delegates at stake, including 475 in California. Clinton and Sanders have been campaigning hard in California in what polls have shown to be a neck-and-neck race. The Clinton campaign is stressing this is an "important milestone," but it doesn't want voters to be discouraged from going to the polls Tuesday, especially in California. "This is an important milestone, but there are six states that are voting Tuesday, with millions of people heading to the polls, and Hillary Clinton is working to earn every vote," Clinton Campaign Manager Robby Mook said in a written statement. "We look forward to Tuesday night, when Hillary Clinton will clinch not only a win in the popular vote, but also the majority of pledged delegates."
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Post by Admin on Jun 8, 2016 18:52:23 GMT
Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the first woman to top a major party's presidential ticket, addressed supporters in Brooklyn late Tuesday night, thanking voters and declaring that America has "reached a milestone." "Tonight's victory is not about one person," Clinton said. "It belongs to women and men who struggled and sacrificed who made this moment possible." She praised rival Bernie Sanders for engaging in a "vigorous debate" that has been"very good for the Democratic party and for America." In a pivot to her general election rival Donald Trump, Clinton attacked the billionaire for the inflammatory remarks he has made throughout the Republican primary season, saying "he has abused his primary opponents and their families, attacked the press for asking tough questions, denigrated Muslim immigrants."
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