see http://www.alternet.org/media/bernie-won-all-focus-groups-online-polls-so-why-media-saying-hillary-won-debate
his tweet: "Hilary Clinton won because all her opponents are terrible." // !
// I have prvsly liked Lizza? re Obama backgr chicago I think? maybe was not liking him for opinion but for well-written thorough on subject I wanted to read?
to read:
Oct 14, 2015 - re debate
Bernie Sanders’s Challenge to Clinton By Nicholas Lemann
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/bernie-sanderss-challenge-to-clinton
Hillary Clinton Wins Big in Vegas By John Cassidy /huh.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/hillary-clinton-wins-big-in-vegas
The Populist Prophet By Margaret Talbot
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/12/the-populist-prophet
The Populists By George Packer
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/the-populists
June 1, 2015
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/bernie-sanders-a-man-with-a-cause
By John Cassidy
During a general election, almost all of Sanders’s supporters would vote for Clinton over Jeb Bush or any other Republican, but, right now, his presence in the primary gives them the opportunity to raise a rumpus, and to try to pull the party in a liberal direction. As the campaign progresses, it will be fascinating to see how far this effort succeeds. Already, Clinton has shifted her stance on immigration reform and the criminal-justice system. In two recent speeches, she pledged to extend President Obama’s initiatives aimed at undocumented workers and their families, and called for an end to mass incarceration.
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Although each of these policy proposals
is important in its own right, neither would cost the Democratic Party’s
donor class /middle class to whom she pitches?/ any money.
The political test for Clinton will come in the
area of economic policy, where Sanders has put out a comprehensive and,
by American standards, quite radical manifesto.
It includes reforming the tax code to make the rich pay more, raising
the federal minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour, reforming trade
policies, breaking up the big banks, and turning Medicare into a public
health-care system for Americans of all ages.
When Sanders unveiled this plan last December, I pointed out [ ~ 12/14 Bernie Sanders’s Progressive Manifesto By John Cassidy http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/progressive-manifesto] that
it isn’t all at variance with the policies of the Clinton-Obama wing of
the party. Virtually all Democrats support raising the minimum wage and
eliminating some of the tax breaks for the rich, for instance.
In these
areas, and others, Clinton should be able to find common ground with
progressives. But the question remains: In positioning herself as a
battler for the middle class, how far to the left will she go?
-*** also:
April 30, 2015
Welcome to the 2016 Race, Bernie Sanders! By John Cassidy
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/welcome-to-the-2016-race-bernie-sanders
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Nov 17, 2014 issue
The Inevitability Trap By Ryan Lizza
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/17/inevitability-trap
Hillary Clinton and the drawbacks of being the front-runner.
read,
re Martin O'Malley: O’Malley, who is fifty-one, is one of several candidates who are considering running for the Democratic nomination. ... As a mayor and as a governor, he has been known for bringing a McKinsey-esque [wkp: an American multinational management consulting firm. conducts qualitative & quantitative analysis in order to evaluate management decisions. Eighty percent of the world's largest corporations are counseled by the firm, wh is considered the most prestigious management consultancy] reform to Baltimore and to Annapolis, instituting programs that use computer-aided metrics to judge government performance. In 2002, when he was mayor, Esquire called him one of the “best and brightest”; in 2009, as governor, he was honored by the magazine Governing as one of the “public officials of the year.” He applied his data-driven techniques to crime, and Baltimore’s murder rate plummeted to below three hundred per year for the first time in a decade.
re Webb ...
re Sanders ... He insisted that he would run a serious campaign against her, not just “an educational campaign” about his pet issues. “If I run, I certainly would run to win.”
