New Jersey Primary: HRC: 54% BS: 40%

[book_worm]

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leads Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the New Jersey primary that could guarantee the Democratic front-runner a first-ballot victory in July.

Clinton was ahead of Sanders among likely Democratic primary voters, 54 percent to 40 percent, in the Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday. The state votes June 7, almost at the end of the 2016 primary season.

New Jersey will send 142 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, and Clinton needs just 90 more to clinch the nomination, according to the Associated Press.

"Senator Bernie Sanders hangs in there, but New Jersey looks solid for Secretary Hillary Clinton," said Maurice Carroll, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll in Hamden, Conn. "Some people are 'feeling the Bern.' But in New Jersey, the Bern is lukewarm at best."

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/05/whos_leading_in_polls_as_nj_primary_approaches.html

[stonecutter357]

1. K&R!

[book_worm]

2. Yes good news.

[workinclasszero]

3. Great news!

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. When you shit on Wall Street for a year and half north Jersey

Works in finance.

Derp.

[firebrand80]

5. If NJ is 10-15 pts, how much will he need in CA?

70%?

[Blue_Adept]

6. 100% by that point with other contests that day.

[grossproffit]

7. So, there's still a chance?

[Blue_Adept]

8. There's always a chance! :)

But I've long lived in a reality based world. Living in the Bush world where they created their own reality kind of firmed that position up for me.

[workinclasszero]

9. Always!

#berniemath

[firebrand80]

12. That's hilarious

"If anything caucuses could double"

[grossproffit]

18. This never gets old. Bernarious!

[Cali_Democrat]

20. LOL

[Cali_Democrat]

22. Bernie and his supporters know that he can't get a majority of pledged delegates

They're counting on the indictment fairy and superdelegates to save him.

You know the superdelegates, right? The same ones Bernie and his supporters call undemocratic.

[auntpurl]

10. Great news.

There's no reason to think NJ won't vote as PA and NY have. Always been a solid state for Hillary, I think.

[DCBob]

11. "Some people are 'feeling the Bern.' But in New Jersey, the Bern is lukewarm at best."

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Who works on "Wall Street?"

Every bank and law firm and auditor has a cafeteria: cooks, support personnel, dishwashers.
Every bank and law firm and auditor has a security desk and security guards.
Every bank and law firm and auditor employs hundreds, even thousands of secretaries, many of whom have a high school diploma and perhaps a secretarial school certificate.
Every bank and law firm and auditor has a mail room.
Every bank and law firm and auditor has an IT operation.
Every bank and law firm and auditor has vast operations departments where people from all walks of life work.

The Bernie campaign and its supporters have chosen a thin slice of Wall Street workers to vilify: the greedy investment bankers and upper managers. Let's say it: some of these people are, indeed, villains.

But "Wall Street" is a vast industry with hundreds of thousands either employed directly or working in support roles (the financial printers, the caterers, the little shops dotting Broad Street that sell sandwiches, the shoe shine and repair businesses, etc., etc., etc.). It is also the route to a middle class income and life for hundreds of thousands. The secretary who grew up in working class Queens and went to an 18 month secretarial certificate program after high school at St. Something-or-Other in North Flushing and took a job at Goldman at 19, and works there 20 years later, still, making about $85,000 a year? She lives in one of the north Jersey commuter towns on the Raritan line with her husband, who works at Donnelly in print production. They've built a life around "Wall Street."

Is it a bad life? Is it a terrible thing?

That's what the Sandersites tell them. They're trash. Their jobs need to be "broken up." The lives they've built are not worthwhile. Sanders is going to get shellacked in North Jersey. And for his simplistic and stupid rhetoric, he deserves to be.

[DCBob]

14. Yeah.. reminds me of the movie Working Girl.

Middle class Jersey girls working as secretaries and assistants to the traders.

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. I think they were from Staten Island

Same point, though.

[DCBob]

19. Really.. somehow I always thought they were from New Jersey with the accent and all.

Thanks for correction!

[auntpurl]

16. Great post.

[Beacool]

17. Sanders won't win my state.

Hillary will win it quite handily.

[anotherproletariat]

21. Don't worry, that will totally turn around when Bernie explains the details of his plans

oh, wait...