Total Popular Vote So Far Mar. 6, 2016

Clinton: 4.17 million

Trump: 3.53

Cruz: 2.99

Sanders: 2.65

Rubio: 2.21

Who's On Track For The Nomination? FiveThirtyEight

You Might Not Have Noticed, but Hillary Clinton Has a Really Progressive Tax Plan Slate

On Thursday, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center released an analysis projecting that Clinton's plans would haul in more than $1 trillion in extra federal taxes over their first decade. More than 77 percent of that money would come from the top 1 percent of taxpayers; more than 50 percent would come from the top 0.1 percent.1 That may not sound like soaking the rich to your typical Bernie voter, but keep this in mind: The expiration of the Bush tax cuts for top earners, which required a fierce political showdown back in 2012, was only projected to bring in about $624 billion over a decade. Hillary's plan is far more ambitious by comparison.

Why Hillary Clinton Has an Advantage Heading Into the Flint Debate TIME

Bernie Sanders was coming off fresh wins in Kansas and Nebraska when he took the stage late Saturday night to speak to the Michigan Democratic Party’s fundraising dinner in a Detroit casino’s ballroom. The Vermont Senator looked like anything but a winner, though.

In fact, his entrance had been delayed by rival Hillary Clinton, who spoke before him and lingered with the donors and activists who lined up by the stage to meet her. For 15 minutes, as her campaign soundtrack blasted, the former Secretary of State posed for pictures and shook hands with her biggest fans. Sanders, meanwhile, waited and waited. “This is my fight song!” the sound system blasted. It was clear Clinton was in fighting mode.

The Chairman of the state Democrats, Brandon Dillon, tried to hint that Clinton needed to wrap things up. He took the stage and urged supporters to let her go, even though she was in no rush to cede the stage. It was all smiles and selfies. “I think everyone understands how important Michigan is going to be,” Dillon said, nudging her out. It didn’t matter. “We’re going to let Secretary Clinton work the rope line,” he said, clearly losing control.

What Bernie Does Now Politico

In his election night rally in Vermont on Tuesday, Sanders declared that his campaign was, among other things, “about dealing with some unpleasant truths that exist in America today and having the guts to confront those truths.”

The big unpleasant truth is this: Sanders may have already changed things in this campaign as much as he ever will. By credibly challenging Clinton in the early days of the race, Sanders moved the needle—and Clinton herself—on the issues he cares most about, from trade to Wall Street regulation to expanded access to health care. If history is any judge, there is only so much more that Sanders could expect from a victorious Clinton, or that she would be willing to give him. It seems all but inconceivable that she’d choose him as her running mate ( he is too old, and too unpalatable to too much of the country). She would not offer him the one Cabinet post he might covet (say, Treasury Secretary?) and it’s unlikely he would trade his perch in the Senate for one she might proffer (say Labor or Health and Human Services).

HIllary Clinton Headlines March 6, 2016

2 winners and 3 losers from Super Saturday VOX

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Hold Big Leads in Michigan: Poll NBC News

Clinton rolls out a new message for Sanders - Trump Politico

Bernie bogs down Hillary Politico

Flint water initiative with Hillary Clinton employ 100 in city MLive.com

Hillary Clinton: Email controversy 'moving towards a resolution' CNN

Emily's List Makes a Push With Millennial Women for Hillary TIME

This new campaign for Hillary from Emily's List couldn't come soon enough! the organization is starting #Sheswithus: a movement of young women online talking about why they support Clinton. The first group of testimonials went live Thursday on Medium.

Reading TIME just now, it says that single women are such a powerful voting force that if they had voted in the 2014 midterms in the same numbers as they did in the 2012 presidential election, Democrats would today control both the Senate and the House.

Writer Rebecca Traister dug deeply into the political power of America's single women in her recent cover story The Single American Woman.

Single women are also becoming more and more powerful as a voting demographic. In 2012, unmarried women made up a remarkable 23 percent of the electorate. Almost a quarter of votes in the last presidential election were cast by women without spouses, up three points from just four years earlier. According to Page Gardner, founder of the Voter Participation Center, in the 2012 presidential election, unmarried women drove turnout in practically every demographic, making up “almost 40 percent of the African-American population, close to 30 percent of the Latino population, and about a third of all young voters.”

Perhaps more dramatically than any other voting block, unmarried women — comprising as they do other liberal-voting groups including young women and women of color — lean left. Way left. Single women voted for Barack Obama by a wide margin in 2012 — 67 to 31 percent — while married women (who tend to be older and whiter) voted for Romney. And unmarried women’s political leanings are not, as has been surmised in some quarters, attributable solely to racial diversity. According to polling firm Lake Research Partners, while white women as a whole voted for Romney over Obama, unmarried white women chose Obama over Romney by a margin of 49.4 percent to 38.9 percent. In 2013, columnist Jonathan Last wrote about a study of how women ages 25 to 30 voted in the 2000 election. “It turned out,” Last wrote in The Weekly Standard, “that the marriage rate for these women was a greater influence on vote choice than any other variable.”

Unmarried women and the 2016 elections AmericanWomen.org

An emerging wild card in the 2016 election is 1) how many angry white men committed to Bernie Sanders will switch to Donald Trump if Hillary Clinton is the candidate; and 2) how many Republican (in particular) women will vote for Hillary if Donald Trump is the Republican candidate. AmericanWomen.org queried 800 registered voters that included an oversample of 200 women ages 18 to 35, resulting in a total of 321 interviews among unmarried women and 296 interviews among millennial women.

Russell Simmons Endorses Hillary Clinton

Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons (pictured above with Lucy McIntosh) has endorsed his "longtime friend" Hillary Clinton while slamming "her rival, Bernie Sanders, as a candidate who is insensitive to African-Americans' hardships and is making promises he can't possible keep.

Simmons hit Sanders even harder, telling CNN that "He's insensitive to the plight of black people."

Sander is “insensitive in a number of ways, and I would get into it if we had time,” Simmons said. “But I think Sen. Clinton has been sensitive, supportive of the progressive agenda. She’s realistic in what she can get done. She’s able to beat the Republican candidate, and I think that Bernie Sanders would not be able to, or could lose, and I don’t wanna take that chance.” via Politico