"Clinton’s Lead Has Evaporated in Nevada and Her Supporters Are Panicking"

[berniepdx420]

HillaryWorld is feeling the Bern. BY TINA NGUYEN

For months, pundits have marked Nevada in the “win” column for Hillary Clinton, who was thought to hold an unassailable lead with the state’s large Hispanic population. But according to a new poll, Clinton might not win Nevada in the landslide that everyone predicted. In fact, she might not win it at all.

Somehow, while everyone was focused on the showdown between her and Bernie Sanders scheduled to take place in South Carolina next week, the gap between the two Democratic rivals had quietly narrowed from 23 points in December to a gut-wrenching one point in a CNN/ORC poll released on Wednesday, just three days before the caucus.

Allies in Clinton’s orbit are panicking, according to The Hill, as the campaign prepares for the possibility of losing a state that one Democratic strategist called “tailor-made” for Clinton. Latinos have long been considered a key part of Clinton’s supposed minority firewall against Sanders, whose victories in New Hampshire and Iowa were driven by white voters, but political observers everywhere will now have to revisit that assumption. “I don’t get it. I don’t think anyone expected this race to look like this,” one former Clinton aide said.

No matter how Nevada shakes out on Saturday, anything less than a Clinton blowout could be disastrous for her campaign, especially in a state that was once so obviously one-sided that no one had bothered to poll there since December 2015. Even if Clinton ekes out a narrow win, much like she did in Iowa, the fact that Sanders was even close will prove that his minority outreach is working, giving him added momentum going into the South Carolina Democratic primary one week later. Or, as one friend of the Clintons put it in more colorful, relatable terms to The Hill: “The shit will hit the fan.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/hillary-clinton-nevada-bernie-sanders

[onehandle]

1. Don't forget! Today is your last day to pay the #PDXArtsTax.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. And what does this have to do with the Nevada caucuses? n/t

[onehandle]

4. Sorry! I was off by 23. nt

[zappaman]

23. Lol!

[frylock]

10. It's a coping mechanism, Peggy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Uh.......OK. I still don't think I get it, but that's OK!

I"m a bit under the weather and some things just go whooooosh!

[frylock]

18. Me too. Been home sick for the last two days.

[Kelvin Mace]

13. Apparently, the tactic du jour

for the HRC brigade is to post non sequiturs.

[frylock]

19. That's how you know she's winning.

[AzDar]

34. ...

[CentralMass]

2. It's a caucus state. I'll bet there will be another less then visible outcome.

[azmom]

5. Kick

[stopbush]

6. The polls say otherwise.

Hillary has a nice lead in NV.

I notice the BSers aren't posting the poll numbers these days.

538 today has the likelihood of a Hillary win at 75%. The BSers were calling the election for Sanders when 538 had him at a 51% chance of winning on Monday.

Amateurs.

[stopbush]

9. So what. NV is trending toward Hillary now.

Why aren't the BSers posting the poll numbers that came out today? Because they can't handle the truth.

[berniepdx420]

11. you.were.up.by.30.percentage.points.and.now.the.polls.are.flip.flopping

Hello Hello... is this on ?

[Hydra]

14. You're trying to reach someone for whom reality is not matching up to their expectations

Hence, "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"

[Agschmid]

15. "You fools"... Yup exactly the kind of discussion we should be having on DU.

Right to personal insults, no time wasted.

[trueblue2007]

16. they need to stop namecalling.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

"you fools were up by 30+.. you are toast."

rude and nasty personal attack. very rude and divisive poster.

JURY RESULTS

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Feb 18, 2016, 07:47 PM, and the Jury voted 4-3 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: It looks reciprocal to me. Get over it.
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Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: enough from this one
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Well, I for one am sick of these aggressively, bullyingly berniebros.. Calling someone a fool makes du suck.
Learn to disagree with some manners.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: RUDE and nasty. Stop the name calling, act like an adult.

[Agschmid]

22. Thanks.

[Cha]

17. Jury Results.. on the "fools" insult.

um.. you fools were up by 30+.. you are toast..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1271179

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

"you fools were up by 30+.. you are toast."

rude and nasty personal attack. very rude and divisive poster.

JURY RESULTS

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Feb 18, 2016, 07:47 PM, and the Jury voted 4-3 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: enough from this one
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Well, I for one am sick of these aggressively, bullyingly berniebros.. Calling someone a fool makes du suck.

Learn to disagree with some manners.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: RUDE and nasty. Stop the name calling, act like an adult.

[frylock]

20. Shit, you all have been calling us the tea party of the left..

delusional, denizens of a fantasy land. Fools is pretty fucking innocuous in comparison to what you guys call Berniebros.

[Agschmid]

21. No "we all" have not.

[frylock]

24. Bill fucking Clinton likened us to the tea party.

[Agschmid]

25. Yup... Just checked I'm not him.

So...

[frylock]

26. You all is a pretty general term.

I'm glad you're flattered enough to think that I meant you, exclusively.

[Agschmid]

28. Yah well you did reply to me.

Anyways it's late I'm done.

Night.

[frylock]

31. I'll be sure to avoid doing that in future.

[Agschmid]

32. That's fine.

I'll live.

[quickesst]

7. Yep...

...we're in a panic.
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://sinister-otaku.deviantart.com/art/TenToo-chilling-on-the-beach-416924590&h=600&w=500&tbnid=ljAJmNf26EChHM:&docid=CAX-yEzFN_mM8M&ei=RKbGVteEO8fxmQGS973QBA&tbm=isch&client=tablet-android-lenovo&ved=0ahUKEwjXtse0ioPLAhXHeCYKHZJ7D0oQMwhNKCYwJg

[OhZone]

29. Yeah that!

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[hifiguy]

27. Let the fan-hitting begin.

Let's see who gets hit with the shit.

[jakeXT]

35. Will it stick ? /nt

[Betty Karlson]

33. Debbie will do anything she can to prevent a loss for Clinton.

Surely her GOP friends have some new ideas she can use?