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Bear BrianMelissa Cronin
1/30/16 11:49am
Judging from the comments over at NYT, readers are not happy ...

Can Bernie and Hillary get over their differences and unite under one ticket? Serious question.
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  PunditGuyBear Brian
  1/30/16 11:50am
  Against the moral, economic and intellectual train wreck that will be the opposing nominee? Without question.
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  jkfyukifyhuklfyiBear Brian
  1/30/16 11:50am
  Bernie Sanders has no interest in Clinton as a running mate
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Wayward ApologyMelissa Cronin
1/30/16 11:55am
They are right and I say this as super lefty socialist who has serious concerns about a Clinton presidency, regardless of your party affiliation or ideology you are absolutely crazy to say that her qualifications for the presidency are not staggering and admit that at worst she would be competent.

It’s super easy to get wrapped in politics and I rode the Obama wave just like all the other lefties but for all her problems and there are many, we could not ask for a brighter and experienced centrist president, sure, you might disagree with her politics and think that it is better to roll the dice with someone that you are more ideologically in agreement with but things are going pretty well right now and at worst she wouldn’t rock the boat.
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  Pink PoloWayward Apology
  1/30/16 12:01pm
  I agree Clinton is absolutely qualified for the job. The issue with her candidacy is that it doesn’t need to be her rocking the boat, the GOPs gonna thrash till the boat takes on water. Not that I think that’s a reason to not vote for her, just an unfortunate reality
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  You might be wrong.Wayward Apology
  1/30/16 12:04pm
  The boat that is the United States needs rocking.
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Richard M TysonMelissa Cronin
1/30/16 11:50am
The thing is that most Dems don’t see her as “radically different” from the GOP. The snobby editorial board from the Times might see her as that but other than being pro-choice, her actions over the span of her career have mirrored, at best, a right leaning democrat with a taste for war and little taste for taking on harmful banking practices. I doubt very much that in her speeches to Goldman-Sachs that she was spouting regulatory practices.
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  ListerineyRichard M Tyson
  1/30/16 12:01pm
  Yeah, but at the same time they also published Elizabeth Warren’s letter, in which she not-so-subtly kinda endorses Bernie without coming out and saying so.
  
  Her article is about the recent Senate report she wrote, which excoriates the Obama administration appointees at the DOJ for not punishing corporate wrong-doers, and calls for a change in personnel.
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/opi…
  
  The Obama administration has a substantial track record on agency rules and executive actions. It has used these tools to protect retirement savings, expand overtime pay, prohibit discrimination against L.G.B.T. employees who work for the government and federal contractors, and rein in carbon pollution. These accomplishments matter.
  
  Whether the next president will build on them, or reverse them, is a central issue in the 2016 election. But the administration’s record on enforcement falls short — and federal enforcement of laws that already exist has received far too little attention on the campaign trail.
  
  .....weak enforcement by federal agencies is about the people at the top. Presidents don’t control most day-to-day enforcement decisions, but they do nominate the heads of all the agencies, and these choices make all the difference.
  
  Each of these government divisions is headed by someone nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The lesson is clear: Personnel is policy.
  
  Legislative agendas matter, but voters should also ask which presidential candidates they trust with the extraordinary power to choose who will fight on the front lines to enforce the laws. The next president can rebuild faith in our institutions by honoring the simple notion that nobody is above the law, but it will happen only if voters demand it
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  Sanders/Kasich 2525Richard M Tyson
  1/30/16 12:17pm
  America can survive another wall street candidate. It cannot survive an outright fascist.
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I'm Fart and I'm SmunnyMelissa Cronin
1/30/16 12:01pm
Should a newspaper be endorsing a candidate? I’m not saying that this is a conspiracy where Hillary bought them or anything like that, but I’m genuinely wondering about the ethics of the press endorsing a candidate.
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  You might be wrong.I'm Fart and I'm Smunny
  1/30/16 12:05pm
  This has happened in every election in every jurisdiction for as long as the press has existed.
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  AllenRosevereI'm Fart and I'm Smunny
  1/30/16 12:08pm
  There are ethics in journalism??
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KaidogMelissa Cronin
1/30/16 11:59am
The Democrats could put an origami-folding platypus on the ticket and I’d vote for it. The Republican slate - with the exception of the relatively sane John Kasich - belongs in a Robert B. Altman satire, not in the White House.
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  ARP2Kaidog
  1/30/16 12:19pm
  Sadly, its true. Both Kerry and Hillary are/were votes against the crazy, not a vote for our candidate. The problem is that HRC doesn’t get the based motivated and out to the polls. But if Hillary get the nomination, you better bet that Republicans will come out in force to hate-vote against her.
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  portland1Kaidog
  1/30/16 12:30pm
  That’s the category I’m in: Yellow Dog Democrats, as in “I’d vote for a yellow dog if he ran as a Democrat. “
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AurochsMelissa Cronin
1/30/16 12:31pm
Iowa and New Hampshire are both full of white people, whose support Sanders can compete fiercely with Clinton for.

But South Carolina and Nevada are up next, and they’re much more racially mixed states. I have not heard that Sanders has made much headway on securing the support of African Americans or Latinos, and indeed the last thing I heard was that most of them have no idea who he even is. Does he have much of a chance of winning those states? Maybe Nevada, but I don’t think he has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning South Carolina.

And those two states are the key. If Sanders can’t win either of those states, he can’t win the nomination. And while he has the undying, highly-motiviated support of young white liberals (especially young white liberal men), he’s going to need more than that relatively small group to win the general. Clinton, on the other hand, can easily count on those minorities to turn up in November.

And I say all this as someone who’s planning on voting for Sanders. (At the end of April when it’s all going to be over, but still.)
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  Red DetachmentAurochs
  1/30/16 1:00pm
  
  In regards to his support from Black americans, this post has been making the rounds on Facebook since yesterday. Michelle Alexander is a law professor and author of the New Jim Crow. Sanders is also recieving a growing number of Black endorsements, such as Justin T. Bamberg, an SC lawmaker and lawyer for Walter Scott (who previously endorsed Clinton), BLM activist Shuan King, Erica Garner (daughter of Eric Garner, Nina Turner, and so on.
  
  As for Latino support, polling idicates they are about even, and Sanders is getting some positive endorsements by Spanish-Language populations.
  
  http://www.rgj.com/story/news/pol…
  
  If this will translate to enough votes for him to win, who knows, but the idea that minorities just loooove Clinton is frankly kind of patronizing to people of color, IMHO.
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  kitten circusAurochs
  1/30/16 1:36pm
  Bernie has been getting great endorsements from POC like Erica Garner and Raul Grijalva, and Clinton’s lead in North Carolina is down by 17%. So Bernie has a real shot, and his momentum seems to be building. It might not be over by April...or maybe Bernie will have the nomination by then!
  
  Btw I’m for Bernie and I’m a woman, not a bro, the berniebro thing is made up and offensive. Bernie’s supporters are plenty diverse.
  
  http://usuncut.com/politics/berni…
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Sean BrodyMelissa Cronin
1/30/16 11:47am
They also endorsed Kasich in the GOP race, which is probably not the kind of press he needs.
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  Government on StrikeSean Brody
  1/30/16 11:50am
  they should’ve picked Hillary for the GOP race. Roasted!
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  Gabrielle CyniqueSean Brody
  1/30/16 11:56am
  Yah the note at the end of Melissa’s piece is odd. I can't tell if it's just random irrelevant information or if she doesn't realize that the NYT endorses for both the primary and general.
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Cam/ronMelissa Cronin
1/30/16 12:04pm
Hey now, Maureen Dowd needs something snarky n’ sassy to write about for the next four years.
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  portland1Cam/ron
  1/30/16 1:37pm
  She can’t write about getting high in Colorado every day.
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  foldableCam/ron
  1/30/16 1:38pm
  She’ll be unloading her hangups onto the Clintons long after they’ve retired from politics.
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jasoneliasMelissa Cronin
1/30/16 12:54pm
I’m glad Hillary Clinton’s a true blue Democrat. Sanders has been an independent for decades and only became a Democrat for this campaign. He’ll always be Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to me.

As for Kasich, he won’t get the nomination—or I doubt it. He’s reprehensible and sneaky but Republicans really want to shit the bed and Kasich probably won’t deliver on that level.
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  Meanwhile, Elsewherejasonelias
  1/30/16 1:15pm
  When the two parties do all they can to lock out third parties it’s not surprising.
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dothedewMelissa Cronin
1/30/16 1:55pm
I prefer Bernie to Hillary for all the usual reasons, but this seems unquestionably true

“one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history.”

No one else could walk in on Day 1 and know what they are doing like she could
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  foldabledothedew
  1/30/16 2:10pm
  Right? The Berniebro rage gets to me most because having someone like Clinton as your second choice is fucking amazing.
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  Kaidogdothedew
  1/31/16 8:48am
  She pisses me off six ways from Sunday, but no question she’s extremely capable. I’m voting for Hillary. Ezra Klein’s Vox has a great critique of Sanders’ healthcare platform. After reading it, I reluctantly had to admit it’s sheer vaporware. So I'm in the Hillary category, and that's that.
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