Bernie Who? Hillary Steams Ahead on Endorsements (HILLARY GROUP)

[DeepModem Mom]

Do you think enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is fading within the Democratic Party? Here's a list of new endorsements she has gathered just in August:

U.S. Representatives Bill Pascrell Jr., Bonnie Watson Coleman, Donald Payne Jr., Xavier Becerra and Scott Peters
Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson
Former South Carolina Governors Dick Riley and Jim Hodges
Former North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan
From Iowa: former U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, state Attorney General Tom Miller and state Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald
Twenty of 21 of New Jersey's county Democratic chairmen and a bunch of N.J. state legislators
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey
California Assemblyman David Chiu
In New Hampshire, State Senator David Watters
In Connecticut, Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch
The Cook County (Chicago) Democratic Party

This month's haul swamps anything Bernie Sanders or the draft-Joe-Biden effort has rolled out over the entire campaign. And Clinton already had an intimidating number of endorsements, leaving few available for her to add.

Yes, Sanders has now moved ahead of Clinton in New Hampshire polls, and her national polling lead is down from enormous to merely very large. But as long as the party is with her, she isn't in trouble....

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-26/bernie-who-hillary-steams-ahead-on-endorsements via BloombergView

[BlueCaliDem]

1. Contrary to what Sanders supporters say (hope?), I don't see a Sanders presidency.

He hasn't gotten a single endorsement from a single Democrat yet. Even Martin O'Malley has gotten at least one Dem Governor!
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-endorsement-primary/

Bernie Sanders didn't even get the Governor of his own State, Peter Shumlin, who has already endorsed Hillary Clinton.

These endorsements might not appear to mean much to the Sanders supporters, but they're crucial if the candidate wants allies in those States who will campaign for them and contact their constituents to vote for them.

Also important to note: Bernie Sanders hasn't received a single endorsement from a single Democrat in either the U.S. House or the U.S. Senate. So how does he think he'll get any of his ambitious socialist agenda through if he can't even get Democrats in Congress to stand behind him?

As intelligent as I believe Sanders supporters are, they have the tendency to be staunch ideologues and stubborn dreamers; refusing to see the larger picture and/or understand and embrace political reality.

The Obama Coalition is not going to stand behind Bernie Sanders, either. Not after Senator Sanders called for a primary challenger to President Obama in 2012.

His vote for the 2013 immigration bill (when Dems controlled both chambers of Congress and had a good chance of passing into law) won't correct his vote against the 2007 immigration bill (when Republicans took control of both chambers of Congress), so he won't get the Hispanic vote, either.

So this is why I can't see a Sanders presidency. The demographics are against him and in line with Hillary Clinton.

[Gothmog]

2. The people who know Sanders best are not endorsing him

[postatomic]

3. You have to ask yourself why?

I'm guessing that Democrats don't want to associate with someone who has bashed them for years. What will Bernie bring to the table? Money? Nope. Viable legislation? Nope. Backing Democrats up for election? Nope.

This is all about Bernie and nothing else.

[Tommy2Tone]

4. " I'm guessing that Democrats don't want to associate with someone who has bashed them for years."

This is an under reported thing about Sanders. When he was just a plain old socialist he talked with equal loathing for Dems and the GOP. The he got political religion and became a born again socialist Democrat. His fans don't care because most of them aren't Dems to start with.

[Cha]

5. Thanks for this, DMM

[krm27]

6. Your math is flawed...

You listed a couple dozen people. Last I checked, Bernie had over 100,000 come out to support him in person. Do the math.

Oh, wait, I get it! You think that the support of an "important" person, a "powerful" person, is more important than 10,000 common, ordinary people. More elitist bullshit.

You can keep your couple dozen "powerful" supporters, Bernie will stick to the common folk and will win with them.

Ken