Hillary Clinton Has Edge Over Donald Trump in General Election NPR

NPR is joining the 2016 presidential election club of electoral college analysis, issuing the first monthly update based on fundamentals — historical trends and demographics, plus reporting and polling (both public and private).

As every set of presidential analytics argues, (FiveThirtyEight, Cook Report as examples), Hillary wins. NPR promises to explore the data from questioning angles, writing:

"But there is also the potential that this fall's presidential battlegrounds could be re-sorted — pitting white, working-class voters, whom Trump is appealing to, against Latino voters, who appear to be in Clinton's corner. Traditional ways of thinking about the map should and will be challenged. So in addition to our current ratings, we also explore several possibilities and scenarios, including Trump's potential path and even two potential ties, based on Trump doing well in the Upper Midwest and Clinton racking up wins in competitive states where the Latino vote is important."

Donald Trump Wrong That Hillary Clinton Doesn't Do Very Well With Women PolitiFact

PolitiFact gives Donald Trump a "pants on fire" rating for his assertion that Hillary Clinton doesn't do well with women in polls. The man is lyin' Donnie, a man who actually does have small hands.

During a May 2 interview on CNN’s New Day, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump doubled down on his charge that his potential Democratic rival in November, Hillary Clinton, is playing the "woman card."

"She's playing the woman card," Trump told host Chris Cuomo. "And if she didn't play the woman card, she would have no chance whatsoever of winning."

Trump went on to say that Clinton’s standing among female voters in particular is nothing to write home about.

"Frankly, (Hillary Clinton) doesn’t do very well with women," Trump said. "If you look at what happened recently, … in the last two weeks, including New York. I won with women by vast, vast majorities. I was way, way up with women far above anybody else in the exit polls of the recent election."

RealClearPolitics.com in April reviewed seven polls with Clinton/Trump head-to-head matchups. Clinton won them all, with an average of +19. Her weakest win was the Rasmussen poll -- a notoriously Republican-leaning poll -- in which HIllary bested Trump by 6 points.

Getting Bashed By Berners

'I've been silent': Harvard's Clinton backers face life on a pro-Bernie campus The Guardian

As a member of the Harvard for Hillary group, Janet Ho canvassed for Clinton during the Massachusetts primary. Ho, a 19-year-old freshman, is an open advocate for the former secretary of state, but admitted that being a Clinton supporter can be difficult.

“Do I feel more challenged by Bernie supporters? Yeah. Do I feel more challenged in general? Yes, I do,” she said. Ho said she felt she had to “justify” her backing for Clinton to Sanders fans.

“They see the Hillary supporter as someone who doesn’t really want as much equality as they do.

“Like: ‘What do you mean why don’t you want free tuition for everyone? It’s not fair. Why don’t you want equal pay for everyone? Why don’t you want to tax the rich? What’s wrong with you?’ Like: you’re evil.”

Bernie's Narcissicism Complicates Democratic Race

Bernie Sanders Makes Things Ackward for Hillary Clinton's DNC Takeover MSNBC

Bernie Sanders, enjoys another moment in the limelight, speaking to campaign volunteers in Bowling Green, Ky. There are procedures in how things work at this point in the nomination process, but Bernie will have none of it. He insists that he will take a floor fight to the convention, disregarding the damage to all Democrats in November, and not only his foe -- the woman he loves to hate -- Hillary Clinton.

The California primary is the end of it, say Democratic insiders.

"So the DNC and the Clinton campaign will have to execute the merger earlier, with one candidate still in the race and potentially over his fierce objections. But the clock is ticking on the general election, and Democrats are eyeing the day after the California primary as a likely time to end this.

Typically, party nominees move quickly to lead the national parties, which essentially become arms of the campaign.

“In 2000, when I was chair, after [Al] Gore beat [Bill] Bradley in Iowa and New Hampshire, Bradley essentially withdrew. A week later, someone arrived at DNC headquarters and said, ‘Hi, we’re taking over,’” said former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who ran the DNC during the final years of Bill Clinton’s administration. “They really take over. And you know, as DNC chair, that you are now working for the campaign.”

Party chairs usually stay on – and there’s no sign Clinton wants to replace Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz – but now the campaign calls the shots."

As I keep saying, Bernie Sanders wants to destroy Hillary Clinton. Let's be clear-eyed about this. She is his public enemy #1. In the privacy of the voting booth, I believe there's a strong chance he will vote for Trump.

As his chief surrogate Susan Sarandon said to Chris Hayes, voting for Trump will hasten their revolution. Present generations can suffer, so future ones will thrive.