DNC CONFIRMS SYSTEM IS RIGGED AGAINST "GRASS ROOTS" CANDIDATES

You have to say one thing about the Democratic Party Establishment; they have got "big balls" even if  the chairperson is a woman.



The hot potato was "super delegates"



Because of this system, the Washington Post points out, Sanders could technically win the primary election, earning a majority of the 1,670 delegates determined by actual voting, but still lose the Democratic Party’s nomination, if Clinton gets most of the party’s 712 unelected unpledged delegates.



Critics have begun to ask why this undemocratic system exists. CNN’s Jake Tapper posed precisely this question to Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, an ally of Hillary Clinton who co-chaired her former presidential; campaign, in a Feb. 11 interview. She responded with shockingly blunt honesty.

The question asked of the chairperson in a CNN interview was;

“What do you tell voters who are new to the process who say this makes them feel like it’s all rigged?” Tapper asked the DNC chair.

Her answer was;

“Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don’t have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists,” Wasserman Schultz calmly explained. 

Un-Democratic Party: DNC chair says superdelegates ensure elites don’t have to run “against grassroots activists” - Salon.com



Fortunately for voters there is one "grass roots" candidate the DNC Establishment is not going to be able to stop; Bernie Sanders



Sanders supporters demand that superdelegates follow 'the will of voters'

FRANCIS; PEOPLE THAT WANT A WALL (70% REPUBLICANS) ARE NOT CHRISTIAN

The question was about Trump, but the answer applies to the majority of Republican (70%) who want the wall.


As far as voters are concerned – and not just Republicans - Donald Trump has a winning formula for fighting illegal immigration.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 70% of Likely Republican Voters agree with the GOP presidential hopeful that the United States should build a wall along the Mexican border to help stop illegal immigration. Seventeen percent (17%) of GOP voters disagree, while 13% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Ninety-two percent (92%) of Republicans agree that the United States should deport all illegal immigrants who have been convicted of a felony in this country. Only four percent (4%) disagree.

Among all likely voters, 51% favor building a wall on the border; 37% disagree, and 12% are not sure. Eighty percent (80%) support the deportation of all illegal immigrants convicted of a felony; only 11% are opposed.

Voters Want to Build A Wall, Deport Felon Illegal Immigrants - Rasmussen Reports™

ARE YOU A REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT OR ?

I think the question is moot. The real choice is between the Establishment or the Anti-Establishment candidates. In 2016 it boils down to two candidates; Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump both who's ideology is diametrically the opposite, but both of which represents an alternative to a political Establishment that offers little or no choice on how we are governed.



The establishment holds all the power and panders to those who hire them to exert it. It's no wonder that so many Americans don't vote. They have no one who will represent them to vote for. What we are witnessing in 2016 is about to change all that.



Remember the age-old question, what do all those with power want? More power. As such, two monopolies have dominated American politics for over 150 years-the Democratic Party, founded in 1828, and the Republican Party, founded in 1854. Together, they form a political cartel, or an association of political parties with the purpose of maintaining concentrated power and restricting or repressing competition. Throughout the past century its loosely managed agreements, often wholly unofficial, but embedded deep within its standard operation, have been the quasi-coordinated production, distribution, and enforcement of a set of normalized choices which reflect only the range of needs of private corporate power.

Essentially, to solidify and gain greater control, the two parties staked out a set of positions within a predetermined and standardized framework which express the basic ideas of the status quo. This way any "new" solutions about what might be possible tend toward ideas which pose no serious danger to the framework itself, which produce reforms only capable of gutting radical resistance while leaving the underlying problems intact. Any outliers are assimilated or positioned to enhance the strength of current institutions. In other words, all ideas must first be filtered through the umbrella of the Democrat-Republican cartel, which dictates the pedigree of ideas both old and new, and therefore severely limiting any competition from threatening its hegemony. (see; How the United States' Two Major Parties Helped Destroy Democracy)



Whether you realize it or not there is very little space between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to "rigging" the system. Both of these Establishment parties use the same tricks and strategies to secure the special interests of those that hire them.



Thanks to both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump Main Street Americans are wising up and it shows when both sides are much more apt to support the "Anti-Establishment" under dogs.



Sanders and Trump only took on the label of Republican and Democrat because it's the only way to play in a rigged system.



It's surprising that Establishment Republicans are only now noticing that their people are flocking to Trump. Even when he bad mouths their standard bearers and get's booed off the stage he still remains the #1 choice.



It's no surprise that Bernie is burning the Democratic Establishment as bad as he is given how poorly they do in representing people who vote Democrat. Even though Hillary Clinton may be qualified to run for president she is sorely unqualified when it comes to representing voters vs special interests who's money she has no problem taking.



What's different about 2016 is that Americans have a real choice; be they on the left or right of the political stage.  Many Americans who stayed at home in previous are out in force for the first time and they are having an impact on the Establishment that will reverberate for may years regardless who the winner is in November 2016.

NEED A PHOTO ID? GO TO VOTER.ID.GOV

Sorry. There's no such link; just trying to make a point and suggest that maybe there should be a site that anyone who wants to vote could go to and get a photo ID with little or no fuss or muss.



It's really simple. Much like filing an income tax return, or applying for a credit card. All that would be required is having a social security or tax id number, and access to a cell phone camera and the internet.  Oh! and the government creating a site to which you could log on to fill out a short form, submit your SS# and photo and voila! You get your ID in an email or your mail box.



Now why didn't Republicans (or Democrats) think of that?



Do I need an ID to vote? A look at the laws in all 50 states. - The Washington Post

VOTERS ARE USING THE "H" & "T" WORD

Words like "honest" "trustworthy" are used sparingly in politics. Not surprising given the amount of "canned" BS that spews from the mouths of most main stream Establishment politicians who, as Marco Rubio so eloquently demonstrated are "scripted" by their donors to say  (and repeat over and over again) what they believe voters want to hear. That's the nature of the beast and Republicans and Democrats alike are conditioned to respond that way even, as in Rubio's case, it sounds "robotic"



So, why are these words coming up at the voting booths these days?


As Hillary Clinton faces increased scrutiny for her use of an unsecured personal email server while secretary of state, the Democratic presidential candidate continues to struggle to win voters over on the basis of trust.

The wide majority of Democratic primary voters who focused primarily on the trustworthiness of candidates backed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, according to exit polls reported by ABC News.

Specifically, one-third of New Hampshire Democratic primary voters focused on the candidate who they believed to be most honest and trustworthy. Ninety-two percent of these individuals voted for Sanders, while 6 percent backed Clinton for the nomination.

Overall, Clinton lost the primary race to Sanders by 22 points.

Clinton’s honest rating, along with her poll numbers, has taken a hit since it was revealed last March that she used personal email to conduct government business while at the State Department. The Obama administration recently confirmed that nearly two dozen emails on Clinton’s server contain top secret information. Clinton has insisted that she never sent nor received information marked classified on her private email.

Clinton’s campaign has dismissed the controversy surrounding her email as the result of partisan efforts to damage her presidential ambitions. The FBI is currently investigating her email setup, which the agency formally confirmed for the first time in a letter earlier this month.

More than a quarter of Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire said they focused on the candidate who “cares about people like me,” according to exit polls Tuesday. Eight-in-10 of these voters backed Sanders, while 18 percent cast their ballots for Clinton.

Sanders beat Clinton among most demographic groups Tuesday, including women. Sanders dominated among Democratic voters under the age of 30, winning 84 percent to Clinton’s 15 percent. Sanders was similarly successful among younger voters in the Iowa Democratic caucus last week, where Clinton narrowly beat him.

During a speech from New Hampshire Tuesday night after the results were announced, Clinton acknowledged that she has “work to do” among younger voters. Her campaign has sought to minimize the importance of the first-in-the-nation Democratic primary, instead putting emphasis on states that vote in March.

While Sanders beat Clinton among most demographics , Clinton did prevail among those ages 65 and older and those belonging to families who make over $200,000 annually, according to the New York Times.

In NH, Sanders tops ‘honest’ category in UMass poll | The Recorder

WHERE BERNIE STANDS ON CIVIL RIGHTS

It's not on a bridge going for a photo-op or a long winded speech about doing something. Bernie, for the lack of a better label, is a "mover and shaker" and has been in the civil rights causes for many years;



It isn’t that minority voters dislike Senator Bernie Sanders. They just aren’t familiar with him.

Sanders’ presidential campaign seems to be hitting its stride, based on polls coming out of Iowa and New Hampshire. But while he gains traction among those early primary voters, he is failing to generate enthusiasm — or even name recognition — with one key Democratic voting demographic: minorities.

As Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, told The New York Times:

“We’re reaching out, but it’s no secret that Bernie represents a state that is heavily Caucasian, and his decades of work on issues of importance to African Americans aren’t known amid the national conversation on race that is underway.”

In an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll last week, 95 percent of nonwhite Democratic voters said they could see themselves supporting Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton for the party’s nomination, but only about one-quarter of respondents said they could see themselves voting for Sanders.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) chats with supporters during a visit to his Iowa campaign headquarters on June 13, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Bernie addressed his relatively anemic support among African-Americans during an interview with George Stephanopoulos Sunday:

“I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.

“But I think the issues that we are dealing with, combating 51 percent African-American youth unemployment, talking about the need that public colleges and universities should be tuition free, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, creating millions of jobs by rebuilding our infrastructure. These are issues that should apply to every American.”

 The struggle for Sanders, who as a college student organized sit-ins against segregation and attended the 1963 March on Washington, is to make his views known to African-American communities quickly enough to have an impact on the election.

Sanders intended to do just that with an audience in Charleston, S.C., but he postponed that event after the deadly shooting there earlier this month. And when he spoke to a crowd of Latino government officials from across the country in Las Vegas in June, the Los Angeles Times reported that the room was about half-empty. 

Mariachi musicians sing and play serenadas as they encourage people to vote on election day in Los Angeles on November 6, 2012. (Photo: JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

Matt Barreto, a pollster who focuses on Latino voters, told the Los Angeles Times:

“His name recognition in the Latino community is somewhere in between zero and extremely low. And you’re not going to win an election without Latino support.”

Demographics are not necessarily destiny; but unmarried women, minorities and millennial voters will make up a majority of the total electorate for the first time in 2016, according to pollster and former Bill Clinton advisor Stan Greenberg.

What voters need to do is get to now Bernie and then decide who's on their side. 

Sanders has a 50-year history of standing up for civil and minority rights, as he told the attendants of Netroots Nation after he was interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters. Of course, it’s understandable that they want to bring attention to the movement. Killings of people from Ferguson to New York City to Los Angeles to Atlanta have finally brought important issues like police brutality, systemic racism, mass incarceration and militarization of the police into the center of national dialogue.

It is up to all candidates for the presidency, including every Democrat, every Republican and independent candidates, to address these issues in a forthright manner and to do outreach and communicate with communities that are besieged by these problems. Although his events in Phoenix, Houston and Dallas, where he loudly condemned police brutality and racism were a start, Sanders owes it to pay attention to these activists and listen to the concerns of marginalized groups whose civil rights have historically been suppressed. Sanders does have a record of fighting on these issues, and it should be only natural for him to be able to comfortably address them before a diverse audience.

Here are 20 ways Sanders has stood up for civil and minority rights, starting in the early 1950s up to the present year.

20 ways Bernie Sanders has stood up for civil and minority rights - Salon.com

HEY JEB! YOU CAN'T BUY YOUR WAY INTO THE WHITE HOUSE

Jeb and I agree. Donald Trump may not be able to insult his way into the White House but he needs to be reminded that he's not going to be able to buy his way into the White House with the bank roll he receives for pandering to his billionaire-millionaire "donor" base. There's no doubt that Jeb! wants millionaires and billionaires in front row seat in his White House. 





The enormous fundraising success that Bush showed in the first half of the year has long since subsided, with new donors slow to join a campaign that has languished. The campaign has had little success with grass-roots fundraising, leaving it highly dependent on wealthy donors. And the establishment figures who flocked to back him in the spring have grown jittery as winter nears.

The candidate, who once talked of the importance of campaigning with “joy in your heart,” now projects an air of bewildered resignation.

“There are two types of politicians,” Bush said during a brief appearance Thursday outside Geno’s Chowder and Sandwich Shop. “There are the talkers, and there are the doers. I wish I could have done a better job talking on the stage. I wish I could talk as well as some of the people on the stage — the big personalities. But I’m a doer.”

If the polls are correct I'm not sure JEB! knows what he's doing.

Top Donors data for Jeb Bush, 2016 Cycle | OpenSecrets