Tag: Bernie Sanders
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Pro-Clinton Writers Make Illiberal Arguments and Then Complain When They’re Called Out On It
A nontrivial portion of online comments are going to be unconstructive and/or offensive. Especially when a columnist writes something provocative, a lot of people are going to be unhappy about it, and many of them, bolstered by the relative anonymity and psychological distance the Internet affords, will respond with vitriol. …
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Believe It or Not, Bernie Sanders Outperformed Projections on Super Tuesday II – And the Calendar Gets Better from Here On Out
“The 2016 Democratic primary effectively ended Tuesday night, with Hillary Clinton as the all-but-certain winner,” the media has declared. Bernie Sanders needed some wins, they tell us, and “his path to the nomination is now essentially blocked.” Since Clinton is over 300 pledged delegates up on Sanders – more than…
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Punditry Prophecies and the Michigan Primary
Harry Enten, a forecaster at FiveThirtyEight, believes he isn’t a favorite of Bernie Sanders supporters; they “don’t exactly love me,” Enten recently wrote. That may be true, as Enten’s coverage of Sanders during the Democratic primary has, for the most part, been extremely dismissive. When Sanders entered the race in…
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Let’s Not Selectively Doubt Nevada’s Entrance Polls
Hillary Clinton won Nevada’s caucus last night by about 5.5 percentage points. We don’t have official voting results by race, but polls taken before voters caucused (“entrance polls”) suggested the following demographic breakdown: The Clinton campaign and several journalists have raised questions about whether Sanders actually won the Latino vote. …
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How Change Actually Happens
Debbie Spielberg has worked on legislation and policy at the national and local levels, including serving as Legislative Director for Congressman John Lewis (D-Atlanta). She currently is a legislative aide for Montgomery County Councilmember Marc Elrich (D at-large), where she works on transportation, housing, economic development, and environmental issues, and…
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Bernie Sanders Is Correct: He Polls Better than Hillary Clinton Against the Republicans
PolitiFact just issued a completely incorrect ruling on one of their “fact checks.” Here is the correct ruling on the following statement from Bernie Sanders: PolitiFact called it “false” because they found a few polls in which Clinton does better. Their “fact checking” was grossly negligent, however. While the meaning…
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Voting for Bernie Sanders, Learning from Ta-Nehisi Coates
Several months ago, Black Lives Matter activists targeted Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders with protests. Many of my fellow Sanders supporters thought these protests unfair, in large part, as I explained at the time, because Sanders “has an excellent record on racial justice issues, much better than any other candidate…
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Bernie Sanders-Style Health Care Would Be a Big Win for Low- and Middle-Income Americans
Bernie Sanders just released his new proposal for a single-payer health care system. As former US Labor Secretary Rob Reich notes, Sanders’ plan would be “a huge advance over what we have now.” Reich’s summary: It builds on the strengths of Medicare. Like Medicare, it’s universal — separating health insurance…
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