Hillary Clinton Returns 'Home' to New York The Atlantic

Hillary Clinton was introduced by Representative Charles Rangel at the Apollo Theater in Harlem yesterday. Rep Rangel persuaded Hillary to run for the Senate in 1999. After that Senator Chuck Schumer, the future minority leader -- or majority leader if Hillary has her way -- reviewed Clinton's achievements and accolades as the junior senator from New York.

Clinton’s campaign packed the stage behind her with young women who carried signs that said ‘Welcome Home’ and who chanted, “I’m with her!” and “Madam President!” But the many young faces in the Harlem crowd also highlighted Clinton’s challenge: In New York, the voters most likely to tilt to Sanders are ones who are scarcely old enough to remember Clinton’s tenure as senator.

Michael Tosto, 26, has been backing Clinton from the start. But his friends aren’t. “None of them. That’s the sad thing,” he said after the rally. “It’s the brainwashing of the student loans and the revolution thing.” The same was true for Sam Ackerberg, a law student from Brooklyn. “Most of my peers and most of my Facebook network are supporting Bernie,” he said. “But I’m staying strong.”

Op-ed: I'm a radical, and I support Hillary Clinton Baltimore Sun

Activist and anarchist Emma Goldman once said "I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things" after being told off by a fellow anarchist for dancing and enjoying herself when he thought she should be serious and dignified in her role as an agitator. Her response to him boiled down to "if I can't dance, it's not my revolution!"

I'm a 34-year-old, college-educated, radical woman, and I'm tired of hearing and reading about why I should support Bernie Sanders and how my generation has a lack of enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton. I can't dance to Bernie Sanders, but I feel real inspiration about everything that Hillary says and stands for. I refuse to be told how I should think and feel about this Democratic primary.

How Bernie Can Win (But He's Not Going To Like It) Politico

We're so glad to read the age-related data in this article. The media and pollsters have made much of Bernie's popularity with younger voters and Hillary's with older ones. The majority of age analysis has Bernie leading in 45 and younger, and Hillary older than 45. It's not a terribly pretty picture, and it's also not true.

The statistics show incontrovertibly that a dramatic generation gap hovers over the entire Democratic race. Through the March 15 contests, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, Sanders has won 71 percent of the under-30 vote. Subtract those votes from the overall raw totals, and you find that Clinton has reaped 65 percent of the 30-plus vote. Sanders brags about his massive youth support, but the reality is that the generation gap cuts in Clinton’s favor. Age was also the difference between Sanders winning Michigan and losing the rest of the Midwest: 45 percent of the Michigan Democratic electorate was under 45 years of age, whereas in Ohio and Illinois, that share was less than 40 percent.

Those numbers tell us that Sanders can’t simply turn up the volume of the attacks on Clinton from the left, as the campaign has signaled to the Washington Post it would do. Such moves will appeal mainly to people already inclined to back him. To outperform the models and reach voters outside of his core constituencies, Sanders needs to change his game and adjust his message.

Hillary Clinton Headlines March 31, 2016

Top Clinton funders urge tougher attacks on Trump Politico

Trump, Clinton dominate New York primaries in new poll Politico

Clinton: With Trump, Republicans reap What They've Sown Bloomberg Politics

Clinton moves to lock down New York Politico

Susan Sarandon and the Berniacs Who Wanna Watch the World Burn The Daily Beast

Corporations Grow Nervous About Participating in Republican Convention NY Times

Hillary Clinton scores endorsement from District Council 37, NYC's largest labor union Daily News

Hillary Powers Forward Daily

Do you think enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is fading within the Democratic Party? Here’s a list of new endorsements she has gathered just in August:

U.S. Representatives Bill Pascrell Jr., Bonnie Watson Coleman, Donald Payne Jr., Xavier Becerra and Scott Peters

Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson

Former South Carolina Governors Dick Riley and Jim Hodges

Former North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan

From Iowa: former U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, state Attorney General Tom Miller and state Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald

Twenty of 21 of New Jersey’s county Democratic chairmen and a bunch of N.J. state legislators

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey

California Assemblyman David Chiu

In New Hampshire, State Senator David Watters

In Connecticut, Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch

The Cook County (Chicago) Democratic Party

Clinton Endorsements Cont

Quote: “This month’s haul swamps anything Bernie Sanders or the draft-Joe-Biden effort has rolled out over the entire campaign. And Clinton already had an intimidating number of endorsements, leaving few available for her to add.

Yes, Sanders has now moved ahead of Clinton in New Hampshire polls, and her national polling lead is down from enormous to merely very large. But as long as the party is with her, she isn’t in trouble.

Here’s why we pay so much attention to endorsements.”