You gotta love the look of the latest HuffPost/Pollster chart..

[DCBob]

if you are a Hillary supporter!

[riversedge]

1. YUP. loving it...Thanks

[DCBob]

2. I suspect the line going up has not stopped.

We have yet to see many polls post Benghazi hearing.

[reformist2]

22. Also, Bernie's support is holding strong. All I see is that Hill won back some people she had lost.

[DCBob]

27. Yeah.. "holding strong" at 25% isnt going to get him anywhere..

except as a footnote in the history books.

[FloridaBlues]

56. Like the trend lines. Bernie appears to flatten out.

[Yallow]

3. Banksters Winning Again

You can fool most of the people most of the time.

[DCBob]

5. I think the positive effect is more from Hillary's strong debate performance..

and that the fake email scandal finally dying.

Banksters may fear Sanders more than Hillary perhaps because a Sanders administration might cause this nation to go bankrupt.

[Yallow]

60. Bankrupt? Really Bob?

By making billionaires pay some taxes like us working stiffs?

What I notice, is when "folks" can't debate Bernie's (100% correct) policies, they make stuff up.

I watch all kinds of Republicans making wild claims about Bernie. All lies. 80% tax rate etc.

And you saying Bernie will bankrupt our 19 trillion dollar in debt nation with a shrinking middle class, is just stupid.

The top tax rate was much higher a few years back, and America built the best infrastructure, and education system the world had ever seen.

Taxes got cut, debt exploded, and America is now crumbling, and our bridges are literally falling into rivers.

Bernie plans on fixing some of the stuff, mainly who pays to make America great again.

Hillary, not so much.....

[DCBob]

61. Im afraid his extreme economic policies could disrupt this nation's economy.

Our economy is still fragile and any radical change could send us back into a recession.

[Yallow]

73. 90% Of Us Are Still In The Recession

You mean the top .01% won't be able to reap their normal "returns" while the rest of us lose ground more, and more, and more.

I am 100% sure Bernie's policies if implemented will benefit far more people than the current trickle up crap we have had shoved down our throats since Reagan poisoned our economy.

I understand your concerns.

The filthy rich may revolt if they can double their wealth ever year!

[Android3.14]

4. It's far from over. Bernie has truth, the good will of the people, and integrity.

I'd hate to see the Democrats lose the GE because of Hillary.

[DCBob]

7. We wont lose the general if all Democrats rally around the nominee.

Will you?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. That is an outstanding question, Bob.

eom

[Android3.14]

9. Yes we will lose the GE if Hillary is the nominee

The math is obvious.

Weak Democratic support, animosity towards Hillary from the majority of independents, plus large voter turnout from the Republican haters equals a loss.

Those who push loyalty oaths, especially at the cost of Democratic values, are the reason this country has such an ignorant and pliable populace. Keep up the good work, Bubby.

[DCBob]

10. So.. from that I take it you wont rally around the Democratic nominee..

Is that correct?

[Nothingcleverjustray]

15. Yes.

[DCBob]

17. Are you also the Android person??

[Android3.14]

18. Oh Bubby, your post is so pathetic

The only thing you can think to do is try to strong arm a loyalty oath.

Aren't you the patriot.

[DCBob]

20. What's the Bubby shit??

Get lost dude.

[Android3.14]

23. "Get lost" ?

Just like the Democrats in the GE because of folks like you.

[DCBob]

25. Go harass someone else... Im done with you.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

29. Bob, we HRC supporters are exemplars to the world. In that vein I humbly request you edit your post.

A lot of the denizens of this board are working their way through Elisabeth Kubler Ross' "Five Stages Of Grief" and are only in the first stage which is "Anger and Denial" . This is manifested in them questioning the credibility of scientific polls and lashing out at other members of this board indiscriminately. We should be there to comfort them and help them work through all the stages, the final stage which is "Acceptance"

[DCBob]

34. yes, you are of course correct but..

Im feel like bad boy today.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

43. When folks are upset and lash out it's often best to think why and consequently leave them alone.

Some times they are just having a rough go of it.

[Android3.14]

46. Acceptance of a loss in the GE or business as usual?

It's not a matter of acceptance. It's the hopeful viewpoint that ethics, intelligence and courage will win out on willful ignorance and carry us forward with a positive vision for the future of our country..

Whoops - deleted the Kubler Ross reference.

[Android3.14]

40. Spoken like a true bully

Try your loyalty oath bullshit elsewhere.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

44. Respectfully, you must be the product of a rarefied milieu if you think Bob's a bully.

eom

[DCBob]

48. I have never been called a bully before..

Kind of cool actually!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

49. Bob The Bully...

You merely asked him if he would vote for the eventual nominee. If there was a threat, explicit or implicit, it was so small as to be imperceptible, and in any case it was unenforceable.

[DCBob]

45. Android3.14.. I think you need to upgrade to newer version..

You seem out of date and prone to errors.

[secondwind]

11. Android3.14, I'm a huge Bernie fan, but I'll be darned if I say home and let the GOP take over......

If ALL Democrats come out in '16, we will regain the WH and even the Senate.

I'm not against Hillary per se, I just liked Bernie more... I still think she is an incredible candidate, and is far superior to the crazy that the GOP is offering. I will gladly pull the lever for Hillary Rodham Clinton....

[Ed Suspicious]

14. You won't. But you will not convince the independents who are on fire for Bernie to switch

allegiances to Hillary. They are largely coming out because the see an alternative to Hillary. I'll bet money on it.

[Android3.14]

16. Don't be naive

I could swear up and down that I will vote for her, but it won't matter. She has failed the general populace over and over, from her vote for the Iraq War, repeated support for the PATRIOT Act, obvious lack of virtue when it comes to her being in bed with Wall Street.

Intelligent, ethical and informed voters see she is an awful choice, and when you combine that with the over-the-top haters, that makes an equation for losing.

What's sickening is that she has intelligent informed strategists who know this, and she will sacrifice the country in her relentless drive for power.

[DCBob]

19. "she is an awful choice" compared to what?? Trump, Bush, Rubio, Carson??

Please clarify.

[davemac]

33. Comparison means you do not understand

Clinton, Trump, Bush, Rubio and Carson all have one major thing in common....they are working for the Corporatists and Oligarchs. If you don't believe me, go check out who is funding their super-pacs. Yes, they may catch you on social issues but the BIG ISSUE...CORPORATISM.....the thing which began with the election of Ronald Reagan - and has continued ever since with the election of Corporatists Presidents to this day. Yes, Bill Clinton is a Corporatists. In fact, he was the one who won the day for the Oligarchs. Up until his election, the Oligarchs only owned the Republicans. Bill gave them the Democratic Party. From this time on, electing a President has been a fun game for the Oligarchs. Here, pick which puppet you like, I have one on my right hand and one on my left hand. Sadly, Obama was the biggest scam. Hand-picked by Jamie Rubin, he fooled Americans into believing he was for change. They gave him Obamacare - as long as single payer was off the table - and big Pharma won big. And hey, did one Bankster go to jail? QED. Hilary Clinton has her super pack and only accepts her position on the left hand of the Oligarchs. In terms of full disclosure, Anderson Cooper should have opened the Democratic Presidential debate with a full disclosure statement that CNN is owned by Times Warner and that Times Warner was in the top 7 of Hilary's contributors to her super pac.

[DCBob]

42. That is one bizarre post.

[okasha]

58. Fully developed anger stage.

[INdemo]

26. It will be like two Republican candidates running against each other if

Hillary wins the nomination. So either way Republicans win.

[thesquanderer]

36. Not if there are any Supreme Court nominations (n/t)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

67. What does he or she care?

She gets to hide behind her heterosexual white male or female privilege while the GOP wages war on blacks, browns, the poor, the working class, and glbtq people.

[DCBob]

37. Absurd.

[Chan790]

28. I will not.

I honestly believe Hillary is more evil than Trump or Carson. She's the Vidkun Quisling of the Democratic party.

At least I can count on Republicans to shank Progressive values in the gut, not the back. Hillary, I've come to expect to backstab progressives every chance she gets and at the least opportune times. To me, Hillary is a stealth Republican and her supporters are the parade-goers from the fable of The Emperor's New Clothes shouting about her magnificence.

I will never support her. (I take that back...I'll vote for Hillary if she renounces the Third Way, Wall Street, "big banking" and Bill's legacy as President; swears off PAC money; and changes her name to Bernadette Sanders to reflect her new political identity as a Democratic-Socialist.)

I'll (probably) be voting my conscience and writing in Bernie if Hillary is the nominee.

[DCBob]

31. This comes to mind..

[Chan790]

32. A green square reading "visit QuotesCover.com" means nothing to me, Bob. n/t

[Chan790]

47. That's what I'd be doing if I voted for Hillary.

I have truly no use for her. At all. She's totally politically-null. A non-factor. She'll never get my vote or my support. I even withhold it from people she's employed, endorsed or who I perceive as being too close to the Clintons.

This is the face of my truest enemy:


The only thing I'd ever support Hillary doing is retiring.

[DCBob]

51. There is no logic in that of course.

The GOP will destroy the things most dear to people who call themselves Democrats.

I suspect you are a small minority of those who are actual Democrats and I also suspect you will change your mind once we get close to actually voting next November. Few real Democrats could ignore the potential horrific damage a fully GOP controlled government could do.

[workinclasszero]

6. Looks great!

Go Hillary!

[cantbeserious]

12. Swinging That Cudgel Yet Again

eom

[DCBob]

13. Effective.. no?

[ReallyIAmAnOptimist]

21. Basically the same as where HRC was over BO at this point in the cycle.

[DCBob]

24. Well..

as has been said here many times before.. Bernie is no Obama... far from it.

Once Bernie shows he can connect with African American voters then he might have shot.

[workinclasszero]

35. March 1st 2016...game over

Do you think Bernie will make any inroads at all with the base democratic voters by then?

I doubt it with the way they are running their campaign as evidenced by the ridiculous stuff on this board anyway.

[DCBob]

41. I doubt it too.

Bernie still seems to be focusing his main efforts in his comfort zone.. northern white liberal states. Unless something dramatic changes he is toast once we get past NH.

[workinclasszero]

50. This is what I don't understand

Its like they do not care a bit that they are going nowhere with PoC which are the base of the democratic party. They keep hammering away at 90% plus white states with small populations while writing off large population, racially diverse states loaded with delegates.

WTH?

It makes no sense and everyday they concentrate on these two little non-representative states, their chances of actually winning decrease!

Its

[workinclasszero]

30. Bernie is no Obama

x100

[Dawgs]

38. Bernie is better and Hillary is still Hillary.

Not sure it will matter though. Democrats are determined to lose the presidency this time.

[workinclasszero]

39. Hillary will destroy whatever demagogue clown the teahaddists

put up in a landslide.

Easy peasy.

[INdemo]

52. Bernie Sanders will bring out the progressives

and defeat any candidate the Republican offers...yes by a landslide

Then Banks,Wall St, will be shreding documents and beginning their cove-ups

[workinclasszero]

53. BS

Good luck getting them off their asses, under 30's hardly ever show up at elections.

Internet clickbait polls are their game lol

[INdemo]

54. I would be curious to see how many Hillary supporters voted for Romney

in 2012 ?

[reddread]

57. Id be curious to know how HRC voted in 2000

know what I mean?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

68. I know 83% of them voted for Obama in 2008

Willard Romney received 7% of the Democratic vote in 2012:

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/how-groups-voted-2012/

so it couldn't be very many.


Does that satisfy your curiosity?


Thank you in advance.

[treestar]

55. But with many other people in the race

There was a very large number of candidates.

[Walk away]

59. Is this before or after Thursday night because....

... things are going to start changing for even better for Hillary this coming week. She really only has to stay where she is right now and she wins the nomination handily.

The repukes will throw more mud but at this point, only their base really cares or believes. Bernie and his friends have stopped calling for more debates (gee I wonder why) and she can concentrate on small town halls and getting a jump on fund raising for the general.

Poor Bernie, who wasn't going to attack her, has started to attack her. If he keeps it up it won't go well for him. He should ask Trey Gowdy what it feels like to try to smack Hillary around. She is great under pressure and her opponents usually just shout loudly and lose... badly.

[mhatrw]

62. Corporate media has been a 24/7 Hillary commercial since the debate ended.

Hillary so dreamily "Presidential". Look at what a competent public speaker Hillary is! Hillary gave such command performances!

Hillary deserves to sweep the Emmys!

The issues? What are those? You mean those little meaningless things that Clinton recently sort of decided to agree with Sanders on? What do those have to do with anything?

[DCBob]

64. If she didnt do well just the opposite would have happened.

It would have been 24/7 "Hillary the great is finished!"

[Cha]

63. Hillary's Strong~ Thank you, DC Bob!

[workinclasszero]

65. Numbers are a tool of the oligarchy

Nice try wall street lacky.

[jfern]

66. Hillary was always going to gain a bunch when Biden decided not to run

[DCBob]

69. Her numbers started to improve late September..

long before Biden "dropped" out.

[jfern]

70. That's when Biden started heading down

Geez, just turn on Biden on the graph and you'll see all of her gains came from him.

[DCBob]

71. You said her gains came from Biden deciding not to run

He didn't do that in September.. geez.

[jfern]

72. Biden was dropping on Huffington average before he decided not to run