Why Bernie Sanders Can't Win Politico

Politico writers conclude what Hillary Clinton's most ardent supporters believe about the Bernie Sanders campaign: 1) populism might build crowds, but it won't deliver victories for Democrats. To argue that there is a mirror image -- although clearly built on different values -- between Trump supporters and Sanders supporters lands me in hot water with Sanders progressives, but there is truth to the argument.

2) Sanders supporter are misdiagnosing the anger of the American electorate. The 'political revolution' that Sanders demands, isn't really in the cards because voters aren't actually angry at the 'American way' and capitalism.

The anger is against government and a rigged political system in which government is run to protect the interests of corporations and the wealthy.

“The U.S. Constitution is the most beautiful document ever written, but politics keeps it from working,” lamented another Democratic primary voter from Denver. This sentiment was everywhere in our focus groups."

Politico argues that Democrats are angry over a rigged system, not fundamental capitalist ideals at work in America in the 50s-60s. Americans support entrepreneurialism and the American dream. They actually don't blame billionaires taking advantage of the tax loopholes offerred to them. They would be stupid not to do so.

Hillary Clinton: Tough Lady

Hillary eyes Early Sanders KO The Hill

Clinton World wants to knock Bernie Sanders out of the Democratic presidential race with a resounding win in the Iowa caucuses.

If the threat from Sanders isn’t neutralized by the Feb. 1 caucuses, allies of Hillary Clinton hope to finish off the liberal challenger on March 1, when 12 states hold contests on what’s commonly called Super Tuesday.

Hillary Defies Voter Bias In Competence In Female Candidates

Hillary Clinton's Toughness New York Times

The Paris attacks and the 2016 presidential race YouGov poll

Research always confirms that when voters look at equally experienced male and female politicians, “the man will still be seen as more capable on issues of national security and defense,” Meredith Conroy, a professor of political science at California State University, San Bernardino, wrote to Thomas B. Edsall's inquiry about the current election. But “Hillary is able to overcome this and other gender stereotypes. She turns much of the scholarship on voter perceptions of Democratic candidates, and furthermore female politicians, on its head.”

A late November YouGov survey conducted after the attacks in Paris but before San Bernardino found that Hillary Clinton stood apart from all the men: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina as the only candidate a majority of voters believe

is ready to be Commander in Chief. She is the only one about whom as many people express confidence in her ability to handle an international crisis as say they are uneasy.

There is a striking dichotomy between voters’ evaluation of the Democratic Party’s ability to deal with terrorism and their belief in Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton Headlines

Hillary Clinton Talks Tough On Executive Action Wall Street Journal

Bernie Sanders' Biggest Limitation ABC News

New Hampshire remains a Sanders Stronghold CNN

Hillary Clinton Calls For SCOTUS To UPhold 'One Person, One Vote' TPM

Why Elizabeth Warren Keeps Hillary Clinton At Arm's Length The Daily Beast

Hillary Clinton: The Conservative Obamacare Reformer Forbes

Star Jones Co-Hosts Hillary Clinton Fundraiser in New York on Dec. 10, 2015

Next month on Dec. 10, Star Jones, former co-host of 'The View' and president of the Professional Diversity Network and National Association of Professional Women; Cora Masters Barry, widow of former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry; Yolanda Caraway, president and CEO of the Caraway Group; and Minyon Moore, principal of Dewey Square Group and head of state and local affairs and multicultural strategies practices for the Clinton campaign are hosting an exclusive private reception and fundraiser called 'African-American Women For Hillary Clinton.'

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Hillary Clinton's Nov. 19 Speech At Council for Foreign Relations

Transcript: Read Hillary Clinton's Speech on Fighting ISIS TIME

Clinton offers her plan for defeating Islamic State Politico

Clinton also challenged Turkey to step up and become full partners in combating ISIL. “This is their fight, and they need to act like it,” she said. “So far, however, Turkey has been more focused on the Kurds than on countering ISIS.”

And she specified how she would run a no-fly zone in Syria, saying it would be “principally over northern Syria close to the border, cutting off the supply lines, trying to provide some safe refuges for refugees ... creating a safe space away from the barrel bombs. I would certainly expect to work with the Russians to be able to do that.

“This is a time for American leadership. No other country can rally the world to defeat ISIS. Only the United States can mobilize common action on a global scale,” she said. “The entire world must be part of this fight, but we must lead it.”

The balancing act for Clinton remains how to position herself in relation to Obama, who last week, just hours before the coordinated attacks across the City of Light, said the Islamic State in Iraq had been geographically “contained.” Clinton is seen as the most hawkish Democrat in the 2016 race but also the only candidate who can be directly connected with helping put together Obama’s ISIL containment strategy as secretary of state.

“We have to look at ISIS as the leading threat of an international terror network,” Clinton said at the second Democratic debate last Saturday. “It cannot be contained; it must be defeated.”

In a Q&A following her speech, journalist Fareed Zakaria pushed Clinton to draw contrasts with her foreign policy vision and that of Obama, but she did not take the bait. She called her proposals “in many ways an intensification and acceleration” of Obama’s current strategy to defeat ISIL.

Hillary Clinton Takes On ISIS David Brooks @New York Times

Hillary Clinton Headlines November 22, 2015

Clinton moves to end the primary quickly Politico

Wall St. Ties Linger as Image Issue for Hillary Clinton New York Times

Clinton Opens 25-Point Lead on Sanders in Bloomberg Politics National Poll Bloomberg News

Hillary Clinton Calls for Middle Class Tax Cuts TIME

Hillary Clinton Remembers When She Was Once Told That Women's Rights Were Not Important Vogue

Bernie Sanders backed by $570,000 from union super PAC CNN

Hillary Clinton Urges No-Fly Zone and More Airstrikes To Defeat ISIS New York Times