Presidential Candidates 2016: 10 Democrats Who Might Be the Next Nominee

[Dos Equis]

Link to Michigan debate:

[Las Vegas]

Did you see that Standing Ovation Bernie got at the end!!!  ROFLMAO  And then they panned to Hillary's face and she just did nervous laughter the whole time.  Then, the audience started chanting BERNIE BERNIE BERNIE.  HAHAHA It was awkward as hell for her.

Just watched it again.  Hillary probably wishes she were running in a time from the past, when all she'd have to do is lie (like she does now), and everyone would be so delusional as to give her the same enthusiasm. To me, that's what her expression read.

Standing around telling lies isn't working so well for her these days, except with Blacks.

[The True Adonis]

[Dos Equis]

Sanders barnstorms Midwest as Clinton lead narrows in several states
Published March 14, 2016
FoxNews.com

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders went on a barnstorming blitz Monday, responding to a sudden opening to gain on Hillary Clinton’s delegate lead as polls show the front-runner’s once-solid advantage in key Midwestern contests shrinking to single digits going into the Super Tuesday II primaries.

In Illinois, one of five states holding primaries on Tuesday, a fresh CBS News poll even shows Sanders ahead of Clinton by 2 points.

The story is the same across the Midwest.

In Ohio’s primary, polls show Clinton leading by an average of just 6 percentage points, down from a high of 30 just a few weeks ago. In Missouri, too, Sanders has decidedly closed the gap.

Clinton might be feeling the pressure. Ahead of Tuesday’s primaries, the Clinton campaign scrambled to clarify comments made the night before in a CNN town hall – where she seemed to predict the demise of coal jobs that many workers in states like Ohio and Illinois rely upon.

At the town hall, she said, “I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country, because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”

As Republicans seized on the remarks, her campaign put out a statement stressing that, “Coal will remain a part of the energy mix for years to come” and Clinton’s plan would also safeguard workers’ retirement and health benefits.

Spokesman Brian Fallon said “no candidate in this race is more devoted to supporting coal communities than Hillary Clinton” and “any suggestions otherwise are false."

The latest polling reflects Sanders’ apparent surge in Midwestern and Rust Belt states, possibly propelled by last week's stunning upset of Clinton in the Michigan primary. The territory is proving to be a potential stronghold for the still-underdog self-professed Socialist senator, even as Clinton locks down traditional Democratic support across the South.

Clinton still is favored to win two other Democratic contests Tuesday, in Florida and North Carolina, where polls show her holding tight to a double-digit lead.

But Sanders is concentrating his efforts on the three Midwestern states. His schedule Monday takes him from Ohio to North Carolina, and then back to Missouri before wrapping the night with a rally in Chicago.

Illinois is emerging as a battleground of sorts, with Clinton campaigning in the state earlier in the day, before holding a rally in Charlotte, N.C., Monday night.

In total, 691 delegates are at stake in the Democratic contests on Tuesday. Sanders was able to stave off predictions of his bid’s demise with his upset win last week in Michigan, and sees the potential to further erode Clinton’s edge on Tuesday.

At the same time, Clinton appears well-positioned to win the largest contest on the map Tuesday, Florida’s primary -- worth 214 delegates.

Another big factor in the Florida race is absentee and early voting. According to figures as of Monday morning, nearly 370,000 have voted early in the Democratic contest, and more than 480,000 have voted absentee.

If nothing else, Sanders threatens to keep Clinton locked in a competitive race for weeks longer, even as she nears the number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination.

Clinton aides insist there's little they will do to push Sanders from the race, but they are beginning to show signs of impatience with what they perceive as the increasingly negative tone of his campaign.

"We would like to wrap it up as soon as possible," Clinton communications director Jen Palmieri said hours before Sanders' startling victory in Michigan last week. "You don't want to let them have a head start on the general."

Clinton and her allies had hoped to switch much of their focus to the general election after Tuesday's primary contests, but that plan was thrown into doubt after her loss in Michigan.

Aides acknowledge upcoming contests in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois look tighter than they did just days ago, forcing them to keep focus on the primary despite a sizable advantage among the delegates that determine the nomination.

Victories on Tuesday would give Sanders fresh momentum and grant him months to continue criticizing Clinton's positions on issues that Trump wants to focus on in November.

At the same time, Clinton carries an edge of more than 200 pledged delegates into Tuesday's contests in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Illinois and Missouri and could effectively foreclose Sanders' path to victory with a sweep of the large states.

While the delegates will be awarded proportionately, Clinton's support with superdelegates -- elected officials and party leaders free to back whomever they'd like -- puts her in a strong position to win the nomination.

According to an Associated Press analysis, Clinton holds 1,231 of total delegates, more than half the amount needed to clinch the nomination. Sanders has 576.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/14/sanders-barnstorms-midwest-as-clinton-lead-narrows-in-several-states.html?intcmp=hpbt2

[Dos Equis]

You don't say? 

Bernie's billionaires: Some wealthy donors have backed Sanders for years
By Barnini Chakraborty 
Published March 15, 2016 
FoxNews.com

While Bernie Sanders has pitched himself as the presidential candidate for the little guy -- tapping into the wallets of voters angry over Wall Street’s influence in politics -- a deeper dive shows Sanders has enlisted an arsenal of millionaire and billionaire backers who have backed his political career since his early Senate runs a decade ago.

That big-money support stands in sharp contrast to Sanders' calls for corporate fat-cats and the uber-wealthy to pay their “fair share” in taxes by closing loopholes and removing breaks that benefit the mega-rich.

At a rally last Sunday at The Ohio State University, Sanders told a cheering crowd,” You can tell a lot about a candidate based on how he or she raises money for his or her campaign.”

The comment goes hand-in-hand with the theme Sanders has been hammering for months.

“I am not raising money from millionaires and billionaires,” Sanders said during the CNN Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas on Oct. 13. “In fact, tonight, in terms of what a political revolution is about, there are 4,000 house parties – 100,000 people in this country – watching this debate tonight who want real change in this country.”

Sanders war chest has been driven by smaller donations – he raised $26 million in small increments in the third fund-raising quarter.

Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, insists the fancy fundraisers and big-name donors are few and far between and that there is no contradiction in what the Vermont Democrat and self-described socialist practices and what he preaches.

“We don’t have a super PAC,” Weaver told FoxNews.com. “We rely on small contributions. Average contribution is $27. Are there some, a few people in there who have more money, personal money who give larger contributions? Yeah, of course they do, but within the federal $2700 limit. No, you know, no 50, 100, 2 million contributions.”

But for years Sanders has enjoyed donations from a handful of wealthy donors including media moguls Leo J. Hindery and Steven C. Markoff.

Markoff, who donated to Sanders’ 2012 Senate campaign, began trading rare coins when he was 11. By 2004, his company A-Mark Entertainment was listed as the 65th largest privately held company in the U.S., and the second largest in Los Angeles.

Hindrey, managing partner of the private equity fund InterMedia Partners and former chief executive of AT & T Broadband and of the YES Network, also maxed out on contributions to Sanders.  Hindrey, while advocating for fewer tax breaks for the wealthy, is among the biggest Democratic fundraisers in the country.

Another big money donor to Sanders’ campaign is David Geffen, co-founder of DreamWorks Animation and worth a cool $6.9 billion. According to campaign finance records, Geffen donated the max at the time -- $2,500 -- to Sanders Senate campaign on Jan. 27, 2012. 

But Lara Brown, director of George Washington University’s political management program, told FoxNews.com that she doesn’t see a big push-back from Sanders supporters.

“By and large, Democrats tend to believe these individuals are giving because they have a strong progressive/liberal orientation in their politics and they are doing this because it equates to them giving to a cause,” she said, adding that the same would be true for big-money donors in Silicon Valley and the tech industry.

Viveca Novak, editorial and communications director at Center for Responsive Politics, agrees.

“The vast majority of his contributions in this election have come from smaller donors,” Novak told FoxNews.com. “Even some wealthy Democratic donors believe in changing the campaign finance system, and Sanders’ message has been pretty consistent on that issue.”

However, if donations came in from Wall Street moneymakers, Brown believes the reaction might be different.

“The question is not whether he has taken donations from wealthy individuals, but instead whether he has received support from the very people he has attacked as being at the core of the corrupt campaign finance that funds Washington,” she said. “Hence, as with most scandals, the transgression is judged most harshly when it involves hypocrisy.”

Sanders, born in 1941, started out his political career as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont in the early 1980s. He entered the national political arena in 1991 when he ran as an independent and won a seat in the House of Representatives. In 2007, he was elected to the Senate and then re-elected in 2012.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/15/bernies-billionaires-some-wealthy-donors-have-backed-sanders-for-years.html?intcmp=hpbt1

[The True Adonis]

You don't say? 

Bernie's billionaires: Some wealthy donors have backed Sanders for years
By Barnini Chakraborty 
Published March 15, 2016 
FoxNews.com

While Bernie Sanders has pitched himself as the presidential candidate for the little guy -- tapping into the wallets of voters angry over Wall Street’s influence in politics -- a deeper dive shows Sanders has enlisted an arsenal of millionaire and billionaire backers who have backed his political career since his early Senate runs a decade ago.

That big-money support stands in sharp contrast to Sanders' calls for corporate fat-cats and the uber-wealthy to pay their “fair share” in taxes by closing loopholes and removing breaks that benefit the mega-rich.

At a rally last Sunday at The Ohio State University, Sanders told a cheering crowd,” You can tell a lot about a candidate based on how he or she raises money for his or her campaign.”

The comment goes hand-in-hand with the theme Sanders has been hammering for months.

“I am not raising money from millionaires and billionaires,” Sanders said during the CNN Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas on Oct. 13. “In fact, tonight, in terms of what a political revolution is about, there are 4,000 house parties – 100,000 people in this country – watching this debate tonight who want real change in this country.”

Sanders war chest has been driven by smaller donations – he raised $26 million in small increments in the third fund-raising quarter.

Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, insists the fancy fundraisers and big-name donors are few and far between and that there is no contradiction in what the Vermont Democrat and self-described socialist practices and what he preaches.

“We don’t have a super PAC,” Weaver told FoxNews.com. “We rely on small contributions. Average contribution is $27. Are there some, a few people in there who have more money, personal money who give larger contributions? Yeah, of course they do, but within the federal $2700 limit. No, you know, no 50, 100, 2 million contributions.”

But for years Sanders has enjoyed donations from a handful of wealthy donors including media moguls Leo J. Hindery and Steven C. Markoff.

Markoff, who donated to Sanders’ 2012 Senate campaign, began trading rare coins when he was 11. By 2004, his company A-Mark Entertainment was listed as the 65th largest privately held company in the U.S., and the second largest in Los Angeles.

Hindrey, managing partner of the private equity fund InterMedia Partners and former chief executive of AT & T Broadband and of the YES Network, also maxed out on contributions to Sanders.  Hindrey, while advocating for fewer tax breaks for the wealthy, is among the biggest Democratic fundraisers in the country.

Another big money donor to Sanders’ campaign is David Geffen, co-founder of DreamWorks Animation and worth a cool $6.9 billion. According to campaign finance records, Geffen donated the max at the time -- $2,500 -- to Sanders Senate campaign on Jan. 27, 2012. 

But Lara Brown, director of George Washington University’s political management program, told FoxNews.com that she doesn’t see a big push-back from Sanders supporters.

“By and large, Democrats tend to believe these individuals are giving because they have a strong progressive/liberal orientation in their politics and they are doing this because it equates to them giving to a cause,” she said, adding that the same would be true for big-money donors in Silicon Valley and the tech industry.

Viveca Novak, editorial and communications director at Center for Responsive Politics, agrees.

“The vast majority of his contributions in this election have come from smaller donors,” Novak told FoxNews.com. “Even some wealthy Democratic donors believe in changing the campaign finance system, and Sanders’ message has been pretty consistent on that issue.”

However, if donations came in from Wall Street moneymakers, Brown believes the reaction might be different.

“The question is not whether he has taken donations from wealthy individuals, but instead whether he has received support from the very people he has attacked as being at the core of the corrupt campaign finance that funds Washington,” she said. “Hence, as with most scandals, the transgression is judged most harshly when it involves hypocrisy.”

Sanders, born in 1941, started out his political career as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont in the early 1980s. He entered the national political arena in 1991 when he ran as an independent and won a seat in the House of Representatives. In 2007, he was elected to the Senate and then re-elected in 2012.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/15/bernies-billionaires-some-wealthy-donors-have-backed-sanders-for-years.html?intcmp=hpbt1

Many ultra wealthy support the idea of paying more to help the middle class.  Not everyone is as greedy as you.

[Dos Equis]

Many ultra wealthy support the idea of paying more to help the middle class.  Not everyone is as greedy as you.

This is about Sanders, not me.  Sheds some new light on his class warfare. 

[The True Adonis]

This is about Sanders, not me.  Sheds some new light on his class warfare. 

It doesn't shed anything other than the fact that there are good people out there with a ton of money who want to do something good with it by paying more to help improve the lives of millions.

[Las Vegas]

How many people did Geffen donate to?

[Dos Equis]

It doesn't shed anything other than the fact that there are good people out there with a ton of money who want to do something good with it by paying more to help improve the lives of millions.

That's one way to look at it.  Another way to view it is these are wealthy donors drying to buy influence, which makes them and Sanders a part of the machine. 

[The True Adonis]

That's one way to look at it.  Another way to view it is these are wealthy donors drying to buy influence, which makes them and Sanders a part of the machine. 

Buy influence?  How?  Has Bernie ever done that before?  (of course not)

What would they have to gain from it? 

[The True Adonis]

That's one way to look at it.  Another way to view it is these are wealthy donors drying to buy influence, which makes them and Sanders a part of the machine. 

You do realize that these Billionaires are only giving 2700 dollars which is the MAX for a personal contribution.

Hell, many who are not even worth 100,000 dollars have given 2700 dollars.

[Las Vegas]

That's one way to look at it.  Another way to view it is these are wealthy donors drying to buy influence, which makes them and Sanders a part of the machine. 

By that standard, then, Bernie's competition is completely unelectable.  That's another way to look at it.

[The True Adonis]

By that standard, then, Bernie's competition is completely unelectable.  That's another way to look at it.

He doesn't even realize that these billionaires only gave 2700 dollars which is the max personal contribution.

Would help if he reads the articles he posts.

[Dos Equis]

Buy influence?  How?  Has Bernie ever done that before?  (of course not)

What would they have to gain from it? 

I don't know if his donors have bought influence, but it wouldn't surprise me.  That's why many people donate in the first place.  Campaign contributions give the donors a seat at the table.  It allows them to help influence policy, gain favors, etc. 

[Dos Equis]

You do realize that these Billionaires are only giving 2700 dollars which is the MAX for a personal contribution.

Hell, many who are not even worth 100,000 dollars have given 2700 dollars.

Yes, that's what the article says.  Do you know what happens when someone makes that kind of contribution? 

[The True Adonis]

Yes, that's what the article says.  Do you know what happens when someone makes that kind of contribution? 

Yeah, they deduct 2700 dollars from your bank account.

[The True Adonis]

I don't know if his donors have bought influence, but it wouldn't surprise me.  That's why many people donate in the first place.  Campaign contributions give the donors a seat at the table.  It allows them to help influence policy, gain favors, etc. 

I donated the Max by the way.  Where is my influence?  I have not gotten a call yet or anything.  When do I get it since you seem to know.

[Las Vegas]

He doesn't even realize that these billionaires only gave 2700 dollars which is the max personal contribution.

Would help if he reads the articles he posts.

From what I understand, it's common for guys like Geffen to donate to multiple candidates.  And it was for the Senate run.

If Bernie had a system in place to reject donations from individuals with over a certain level of wealth, imagine the screaming from his enemies about 'class war' then.

[The True Adonis]

From what I understand, it's common for guys like Geffen to donate to multiple candidates.  And it was for the Senate run.

If Bernie had a system in place to reject donations from individuals with over a certain level of wealth, imagine the screaming from his enemies about 'class war' then.

I donated the Max.  I got a few Bumper Stickers and Signs from Act Blue, but thats it.  Still waiting on the perks Dos Equis said I would get and my Ambassador seat.

[Dos Equis]

I donated the Max by the way.  Where is my influence?  I have not gotten a call yet or anything.  When do I get it since you seem to know.

Have you tried to call?  Do you have an agenda?  Do you need a favor?  Have you asked?  I suspect the answers to those questions are "no." 

[Las Vegas]

I donated the Max.  I got a few Bumper Stickers and Signs from Act Blue, but thats it.  Still waiting on the perks Dos Equis said I would get and my Ambassador seat.

The attacks on Bernie have been going through the roof lately,  even coach looks like a hilary supporter.

[The True Adonis]

Have you tried to call?  Do you have an agenda?  Do you need a favor?  Have you asked?  I suspect the answers to those questions are "no." 

Call who?  Favor for what?

[Dos Equis]

Call who?  Favor for what?

Santa Claus.  Presents.   

[The True Adonis]

Santa Claus.  Presents.   

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