Aug 25th 2015 6:19AMAccording to various anonymous sources, Joe Biden is leaning more toward launching a 2016 bid than he was when the idea was floated earlier this summer, and if you believe an anonymous senior Democrat who spoke to CNN, President Obama just gave him his blessing.
A new Quinnipiac University poll shows Hillary Clinton coasting to a crushing victory in a three-way race against Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, winning 45 percent of the vote, compared with 22 for Sanders and 18 for Biden.
And the good news for Clinton doesn't stop there.
- The poll shows Clinton beating Jeb Bush head to head.
- The poll shows Clinton beating Marco Rubio head to head.
- The poll shows Clinton beating Donald Trump head to head.
- The poll shows Clinton winning in a landslide in scenarios where Trump runs as an independent.
- The poll did not test Clinton against Scott Walker or other possible nominees.
So how did the media report this poll showing that if the election were held this week Hillary Clinton would win? Well, as bad news for Hillary Clinton!
- Bloomberg: "Biden More Competitive Than Clinton Against Leading Republicans: Poll"
- Politico: "Poll: Biden outperforms Hillary in general election; Trump leads GOP field"
- Time: "Voters open to Joe Biden presidential bid in new poll"
Two things are happening here. One is that "Clinton is still winning" is a boring headline, so there's a tendency to grasp at straws to come up with something else. The other is that the press as a whole doesn't like Clinton very much (and the feeling is mutual), so there's a bias toward believing that the public feels the same way. So somehow her campaign is struggling even when it's winning, and polls that show her winning are reported as showing her losing.
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9214461/clinton-poll-lead
Econoline wrote:Back to the topic of the thread...
January 20, 2025
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/pollin ... Ueg38d.pdfClinton leads the Democratic field with 45 percent, down from 55 percent July 30, with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont at 22 percent and Biden at 18 percent. No other candidate tops 1 percent with 11 percent undecided. This is Sanders’ highest tally and closest margin.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic ... icans-pollAccording to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, if Biden was the democratic candidate, he would beat Donald Trump by eight points (48 - 40 percent), former Florida Governor Jeb Bush by six points (45 - 39) and Senator Marco Rubio by three points (44 - 41). Clinton only beats Trump by four points (45 - 41), Bush by two points (42 - 40) and Rubio by one point (44 - 43).
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/ ... /71387664/Iowa Poll: Clinton leads, but Sanders draws near
Liberal revolutionary Bernie Sanders, riding an updraft of insurgent passion in Iowa, has closed to within 7 points of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race.
She's the first choice of 37 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers; he's the pick for 30 percent, according to a new Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll.
But Clinton has lost a third of her supporters since May, a trajectory that if sustained puts her at risk of losing again in Iowa, the initial crucible in the presidential nominating contest.
This is the first time Clinton, the former secretary of state and longtime presumptive front-runner, has dropped below the 50 percent mark in four polls conducted by the Register and Bloomberg Politics this year.
Poll results include Vice President Joe Biden as a choice, although he has not yet decided whether to join the race. Biden captures 14 percent, five months from the first-in-the-nation vote Feb. 1. Even without Biden in the mix, Clinton falls below a majority, at 43 percent.
Iowa Poll: Clinton leads, but Sanders draws near
Liberal revolutionary Bernie Sanders, riding an updraft of insurgent passion in Iowa, has closed to within 7 points of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race.
She's the first choice of 37 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers; he's the pick for 30 percent, according to a new Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll.
But Clinton has lost a third of her supporters since May, a trajectory that if sustained puts her at risk of losing again in Iowa, the initial crucible in the presidential nominating contest.
This is the first time Clinton, the former secretary of state and longtime presumptive front-runner, has dropped below the 50 percent mark in four polls conducted by the Register and Bloomberg Politics this year.
Poll results include Vice President Joe Biden as a choice, although he has not yet decided whether to join the race. Biden captures 14 percent, five months from the first-in-the-nation vote Feb. 1. Even without Biden in the mix, Clinton falls below a majority, at 43 percent.
Somehow, I don't think that trying to convince people that John Kasich is the equivalent of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is really going to work for her...Clinton compares Republicans to 'terrorist groups'
Cleveland (CNN)Republican presidential candidates are striking back Friday after Hillary Clinton compared some of them who hold conservative views on abortion and women's reproductive rights to "terrorist groups."
During a riff Thursday where Clinton name checked Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Clinton said Republicans are "dead wrong for 21st century America."
"Now, extreme views about women, we expect that from some of the terrorist groups, we expect that from people who don't want to live in the modern world, but it's a little hard to take from Republicans who want to be the president of the United States," Clinton said at a speech in Cleveland. "Yet they espouse out of date, out of touch policies. They are dead wrong for 21st century America. We are going forward, we are not going back."
Republican front-runner Donald Trump, no stranger to blunt remarks, disparaged Clinton's comment Friday morning.
"Her last statement on terrorists was a disgusting statement, by the way," Trump told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." [Gee, something so bad that it disgusted Donald Trump...talk about gagging a maggot...]
Fellow Republican candidate Carly Fiorina slammed the comments as "outrageous," "over the line" and "typical" of Clinton and Democrats in an interview on "Fox News" on Friday.
"What it tells us is that Hillary Clinton has no qualms about continuing to try and wage this supposed 'war on women' card as she runs for president," Fiorina said. "We ought to expect this."
Clinton regularly hits Republicans on women's rights but Thursday's line was a departure from her usual talking points.
ETA:A video has emerged of Jeremy Corbyn equating the actions of Isis with those of the US military, and saying that "some of what they have done is quite appalling."
The Islington North MP and front runner in the Labour leadership race appeared on Russia Today in June 2014.
When asked by the presenter: "What could shift the balance of forces [in Iraq]? What would it take for the Iraqi forces to regain control?", Corbyn replied: "I think it requires a sense of unity and understanding amongst people in Iraq that would want to remain a part of Iraq."
He added: "And also an acceptance and understanding of why so many people in some of the cities in the north have apparently been prepared to accept the Isis forces."
"Yes they are brutal, yes some of what they have done is quite appaling. Likewise, what the Americans did in Fallujah and other places is appalling, but there has to be seen to be an acceptance of a much wider view of the world than is apparent at the present time."
He also expressed a wish that a political solution could be found to end the conflict in Syria, which has been raging since 2011.
He said: "While the West has not yet sent in large numbers of troops, the danger is that in this sort of perilous civil war that is going on, the Western forces will once again be dragged in, and the war will just go on for a long time and with awful consequences for the people of Iraq."
He continued: "I think there has to be a political solution. All wars have to end in some kind of political compromise - why not start with a political compromise now, rather than fuelling the war by putting more weapons, more arms and more money into the conflict."
Jeremy Corbyn described the assassination of Osama bin Laden as a ‘tragedy upon a tragedy’ that would make the world a more dangerous place.
In TV footage which emerged online for the first time last week, the Labour leadership frontrunner criticised the killing of the world’s most wanted terrorist in a raid by US special forces.
He told Iranian national television, shortly after bin Laden was shot four years ago, that the 9/11 mastermind should not have received the ‘death penalty’, but should have been put on trial. Failure to do so, Mr Corbyn said, was ‘a tragedy upon a tragedy’, after the World Trade Center attacks, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
'Frightening': In TV footage which emerged online last week, the Labour leadership frontrunner criticised the killing of the world’s most wanted terrorist in a raid by US special forces while appearing on Iranian TV
Critics have described his remarks as ‘frightening’ and displaying a complete lack of understanding of difficult military operations. They will fuel the deep concerns of many voters about Mr Corbyn’s antipathy to Western foreign policy, and follow the recent chorus of criticism over his associations with Islamic extremists.
She's not my first choice, but it will depend who she is running against and how the campaign progresses. I have voted for third party candidates in the past and could do so again.Lord Jim wrote:Wes, I believe that even though she isn't their first choice, Big RR, Sue and rube all plan to vote for her if she is the nominee.
