Hillary Clinton doesn't need white men The Washington Post

Clinton will have the support of tens of millions of white men. But she doesn’t need to do any better among them than any Democrat has, and even if she does worse, she’ll probably be completely fine.
By way of illustration, in 1988, George H.W. Bush won 60 percent of white voters on his way to beating Michael Dukakis by seven points. In 2012, Mitt Romney did just as well among whites, winning 59 percent of their votes. But he lost to Barack Obama by four points. The electorate is now even less white than it was four years ago, which means that Donald Trump (or whoever the GOP nominee is) will have to do not just better among whites than Romney did in order to win, but much better.

Newtown Lawsuit Explained

Sanders is wrong about the lawsuit we filed after our son's murder in Newtown The Washington Post

This is an important read about the Newtown lawsuit because it clarifies the basic argument of the suit in ways that I did not understand.

"Sanders suggested that the “point” of our case is to hold Remington Arms Co. liable simply because one of its guns was used to commit mass murder. With all due respect, this is simplistic and wrong.

This case is about a particular weapon, Remington’s Bushmaster AR-15, and its sale to a particular market: civilians. It is not about handguns or hunting rifles, and the success of our lawsuit would not mean the end of firearm manufacturing in this country, as Sanders warned. This case is about the AR-15 because the AR-15 is not an ordinary weapon; it was designed and manufactured for the military to increase casualties in combat. The AR-15 is to guns what a tank is to cars: uniquely deadly and suitable for specialized use only.

We have never suggested that Remington should be held liable simply for manufacturing the AR-15. In fact, we believe that Remington and other manufacturers’ production of the AR-15 is essential for our armed forces and law enforcement. But Remington is responsible for its calculated choice to sell that same weapon to the public, and for emphasizing the military and assaultive capacities of the weapon in its marketing to civilians.

Indeed, Remington promotes the AR-15’s capacity to inflict mass casualities. It markets its AR-15s with images of soldiers and SWAT teams; it dubs various models the “patrolman” and the “adaptive combat rifle” and declares that they are “as mission-adaptable as you are”; it encourages the notion that the AR-15 is a weapon that bestows power and glory upon those who wield it. Advertising copy for Remington’s AR-15s has included the following: “Consider your man card reissued,” and “Forces of opposition, bow down. You are single-handedly outnumbered.”'

Bernie Is Here For A Long While

Clinton allies learn to live with Bernie Politico

Politico argues that Clintonites have accepted the reality that Bernie is not quitting the race. At least not now. Pressure on the candidate would probably backfire anyway. This patience is predicated on a lowering of anti-Clinton rhetoric from Sanders. Politico argues this has been the case after Tuesday night's stunning losses.

Democrats point to comments made in 2008 by Sanders’ chief strategist Tad Devine, when he argued that the Clinton/Obama primary contest should avoid becoming overheated.

“When they attack each other, and they do so in battleground states, these arguments are heard by voters and they may be remembered by them later on,” Devine told ABC in March of that year. “There’s also the fact that when you air the arguments early on, they become a little stale."

Clintonites: How we beat Bernie on trade Politico

The Hillary Clinton campaign believes that her position on trade is much more in alignment with voters than is Bernie Sanders' blanket moral opposition to any trade deal. If Bernie Sanders believes in international trade, he never discusses the positive opportunities associated with trade on the campaign trail.

The Sanders position is echoed by the Trump campaign in terms of blaming bad trade deals for America's economic woes. Unlike Sanders, Trump does embrace a need to trade, however.

“Voters agree that we have to compete and win in a global economy and that means we have to make things in the United States that we can sell to 95 percent of the world’s consumers who happen to live outside of the United States,” said Clinton’s senior strategist, Joel Benenson. “What the data from the exit polls says is these voters were more aligned with her fundamental view of trade.”