(HRC) is as liberal as Elizabeth Warren and barely more moderate than Bernie Sanders.

[Dem2]

A bunch of reporters have recently discovered a shocking truth: Hillary Clinton is liberal! (I heard a rumor that Columbo has been helping with the investigation.)

We’ve gotten this raft of “Clinton is liberal” exposés as Clinton has revved up her 2016 campaign, speaking out in support of gay marriage, a pathway to citizenship for immigrants in the U.S. illegally, and criminal justice reform. But what many of these articles miss is that Clinton has always been, by most measures, pretty far to the left. When she’s shifted positions, it has been in concert with the entire Democratic Party.

...

Clinton also has a history of very liberal public statements. Clinton rates as a “hard core liberal” per the OnTheIssues.org scale. She is as liberal as Elizabeth Warren and barely more moderate than Bernie Sanders. And while Obama is also a “hard core liberal,” Clinton again was rated as more liberal than Obama.

...

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/hillary-clinton-was-liberal-hillary-clinton-is-liberal/

[hfojvt]

1. "while Obama is also a 'hard core liberal'"

best laugh of the day

[tech3149]

15. Perspective is a wonderful thing

I think those "while Obama is also a 'hard core liberal'" types might need to live a few days in my reality.
It ain't so warm and fuzzy when your holding the shitty end of the stick.

[JaneyVee]

21. Liberalism is the new center. Makes sense.

[Marr]

94. lol-- no kidding. /nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

104. On an American political plane he probably is...

Everything is relative... If you compared the Jets to the Harvard Crimson football team they would look like a juggernaut but if you compared them to the Seattle Seahawks or just about any other professional football team they would look pretty much like a joke.

[RufusTFirefly]

126. Wait! I thought he was a Muslim socialist! n/t

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

2. I agree, but I also believe that our definitions are limited to what we have

historically seen politically.

A liberal in Northern Europe would favor free higher education paid for by taxation on the rich and corps, and nationalizing of some essentials.

Universal healthcare, guaranteed standard of living, etc.

I will support Hillary if and when Bernie is out of the picture, but I believe there is plenty of room for improvement and almost all of it has to do with Wall STreet and banksters.

[HooptieWagon]

3. HRC is a war-mongering corporatist.

That disqualifies her as President to me.

[Vincardog]

30. But she is a "Liberal" war-mongering corporatist. That is why Wall St. supports her.

[HooptieWagon]

50. True, she's more "liberal" than McCain or Lindsay Graham.

But that's like saying Stalin is more "liberal" than Hitler. I'm just not going to support the "lesser of two evils", when there's so much I disagree with.

[Vincardog]

54. You have to admit she is more liberal than any OTHER republican running.

[MaggieD]

68. She's more liberal than Bill and Obama too

[MissDeeds]

81. Good one!

"...more liberal than any OTHER Republican running."

Love it!

[Vincardog]

89. The truth hurts.

[MissDeeds]

95. Yes it does

And thanks for telling it!

[darkangel218]

91. That disqualifies her as President to many.

Now that Bernie is running , her centrism is even more evident.

[RufusTFirefly]

128. Bingo!! +1,000! Me too. n/t

[840high]

131. +1

[cali]

4. bulloney. Hillary supports the TPP. She doesn't want to raise the income

cap on SS. She voted for the IWR. She voted for god-awful bankruptcy bill. She won't discuss raising taxes on the wealthiest and in 2008 she rejected it out of hand (maybe she's evolved again) In 2008 she was against drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants and supported deportation- including kids. She didn't support full marriage equality until about 2 minutes ago. Gung ho on military intervention in Libya. Advocated for it in Syria.

Puleez.

[hifiguy]

7. Tis truth.

Facts are stubborn things.

[JaneyVee]

18. Progressive icon FDR rounded up ethnic groups in internment camps.

Killed millions, and lets not even discuss his stance on minorities and marriage equality.

[cali]

23. I really wish people didn't use anachronistic arguments

It just demonstrates a lack of knowledge about history and historiography.

[JaneyVee]

27. Hey, if we're stripping purity credentials...

The least we could do is not be hypocrites about the process.

[cali]

65. do you have any idea what a historically anachronistic argument is?

(something I learned at my pappy's knee) Look, you can't take something out of its historical context and try to paste it on to another period in history. This is pretty basic stuff. Arguably you can discuss the interment of Japanese Americans in conjunction with today's world (some historians argue that you can't, but I disagree with them) but you can't throw marriage equality into it, as that wasn't a concept that was in the political dialog at all 75 years ago. And the millions killed in WWII? That's just flat out silly.

[uponit7771]

26. He also busted union strikes with federal troops

[MaggieD]

70. That 'effin corrupt corporate stooge

But let's be real. No one passes the liberal puretopian test. At least not for long. Obama was a demigod to this same crowd, and in the blink of an eye he was then the devil.

This is why politicians ignore the extremists. That's the exact reason. They really can't be made happy.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

105. That was Truman when he busted the steel strike./NT

[Jackpine Radical]

32. And he was fucking wrong, Wrong, WRONG

(and dare I say criminal in permitting the internment camps.

[JaneyVee]

36. Yet he's a progressive icon and ranked #1 by presidential scholars.

Obama is way more progressive on nearly every issue but today's progressives still not happy.

[cali]

86. no, President Obama isn't close to being as progressive as FDR

I doubt you could find a single Presidential historian who would claim that. 2008-2016 is not 1933--1945. Saying President Obama is for marriage equality and FDR wasn't, is pure bunk.\

The New Deal was revolutionary in a way that nothing President Obama has advocated and achieved, is. And I applaud him for the ACA, but it's not New Deal.

[AZ Progressive]

112. If you want to go down that road...

Then your supporting a country that brutalized african americans, committed genocide on Native Americans, and has supported dictator after dictator, that brutalized their own people, in countries around the world throughout at least the past 115 years. Obama himself is supporting the Honduras Government that has allowed gangs to control the streets and has allowed it to become the murder capital of the world. Not to mention the drone war that has killed many innocents and has fanned the flames of terrorism in the middle east.

[MaggieD]

101. So you keep saying

Even as you also complain she wont take a stand on it. LOL!

[Fumesucker]

5. Welcome to DU..

Best laugh I've had today...

[AtomicKitten]

38. I was looking for a link to the Onion.

[rhett o rick]

71. There seems to be a raft of new DU members pushing the meme that HRC is as liberal as Sen Warren.

This is bull crap of course.

[darkangel218]

93. And its only the begining.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

135. You can say that again - Hillary represents phony liberalism at its worst.

[Dem2]

58. Thanks :)

I like to think we have decent candidates this cycle.

[hifiguy]

6. To quote that well-known philosopher

Bugs Bunny, it is to laugh.

[bluesbassman]

109. Yes, and to quote that fighter of injustice...

Inigo Montoya: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means".

[guillaumeb]

8. Barack Obama and HRC would be seen as center right in most European countries.

And in most of the Americas as well. The political conversation in this country varies from center right to far right. More accurately from center right to fascism.

ANYONE who is in favor of the TPP, or NAFTA, or GATT, or any of the so-called trade agreements that have devastated US manufacturing and lowered US wages cannot by any stretch be called a liberal.

[hrmjustin]

9. Thanks for posting this.

[cali]

12. ya gotta love the flat out lies in that piece

not to mention the misinformation.

<snip>

There have been a few issues on which Hillary Clinton has taken more centrist positions. She, of course, voted for the Iraq War (she now says that was a mistake). Clinton has been mostly pro free trade (although she hasn’t said much of anything on the Trans-Pacific Partnership). And she has been against marijuana legalization, and seemingly
remains so.

<snip>

She is pro TPP. She makes that crystal clear in her book.

[hrmjustin]

13. She said she will wait to hear the full proposal before she makes a judgment.

[cali]

24. she already made a POST state department judgment. It's in her POST

state department book. She highly touts the tpp. so the wait and see stuff just isn't honest. it's blatant political maneuvering.

[hrmjustin]

25. Well we shall see what she says.

[rhett o rick]

137. Yep, like standing on a train track and saying you will believe it when the train runs over you. nm

[Exilednight]

10. Based on what?

[arcane1]

11. "When she’s shifted positions, it has been in concert with the entire Democratic Party"

Why is this considered a good thing? If anything, it makes it seem as though she has no positions of her own, and adopts the "official" positions only when she's told to adopt them.

That's a strike against her, IMO.

[hifiguy]

63. Yep. Leaders LEAD, they don't follow the herd. nt

[Autumn]

14. Well bless Nate Silvers little blog

[GoneOffShore]

16. Welcome to DU.

Enjoy your stay and do try the pizza.

[Dem2]

52. Thank you for the warm welcome.

I like onions and peppers on mine...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

111. Don't let them bully you...

It's people who talk the most shit on the net who are the most pusillanimous in real life...

[Dem2]

116. Pusilanimous

OK, that's a new one to me, thank you Google for right-click "search for..."

Also, can you order some home-made sausage on my pizza too? (yes, I am being facetious)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

117. You should have told him to look at your journal...

You have several entries that can be construed as pro-Sanders.

[Dem2]

118. I'm new here though I would think one could see what I've posted to date

I like Bernie - he has my heart, I like Hillary, she has my brain. I like our candidates.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

119. I can tell...

Maybe we will have that pizza on election eve when we have something to celebrate.


You do know what the pizza reference was, don't you?

[Dem2]

121. Yes

I may be new, but I'm not naive

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

136. Anchovies...yummmm.

[TheKentuckian]

17. Tell Mr. Roarke and Tattoo that I said wassup.

[KamaAina]

22. What kind of M&Ms does Tattoo like?

Ze plain! Ze plain!

[arcane1]

28. .

[Jackpine Radical]

35. Sometimes I wish I were part of this culture

so I would understand references like that.

Fortunately, those moments pass quickly.

[arcane1]

39. Sometimes I wish I didn't understand them :)

[joshcryer]

19. Hillary, Bill, Obama, they are all probably more liberal than people know.

It's the party that is moderate, but has been increasingly shifting more to the left.

[hrmjustin]

20. You are welcome to post this in the HRC room.

http://election.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1107


Likely to get more pleasant responses.

[MaggieD]

33. I'm going to post pro-HRC stuff in GD

Everyday I can get near a computer. Just to offset the screeds. I think others should as well. Love this thread right here!

And when it is all said and done, I will vote for the Democratic nominee.

[hrmjustin]

41. And you are always welcome in the HRC room.

[MaggieD]

51. Thank you

[hrmjustin]

53. My pleasure! Give them hell!

[Autumn]

66. I bought a new smart phone because I hated

not being near a computer.

[Bobbie Jo]

115. And you are well within the TOS

of this site to do so.

[Dem2]

43. You're more than welcome to post it there

[hrmjustin]

45. Thanks. i will in a few minutes.

[hrmjustin]

62. Done.

http://election.democraticunderground.com/11076146

[TDale313]

29. Yeah, sure.

Only from the same scale that has people actually believing Obama's a socialist.

[MaggieD]

31. On no - the truth - it burns (some people)

LOL!

[CharlotteVale]

34. Funny, the only ones I hear calling out Wall Street

are Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

[Jackpine Radical]

40. Well, to be fair,

Hillary is calling out TO Wall St.

While the finance industry does genuinely hate Warren, the big bankers love Clinton, and by and large they badly want her to be president. Many of the rich and powerful in the financial industry—among them, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, Tom Nides, a powerful vice chairman at Morgan Stanley, and the heads of JPMorganChase and Bank of America—consider Clinton a pragmatic problem-solver not prone to populist rhetoric. To them, she’s someone who gets the idea that we all benefit if Wall Street and American business thrive. What about her forays into fiery rhetoric? They dismiss it quickly as political maneuvers. None of them think she really means her populism.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/why-wall-street-loves-hillary-112782.html#ixzz3acwy4MjN

[MaggieD]

47. You can listen to what the right wing media says...

Or you can listen to what the candidate says:

"Speaking with small business owners in Cedar Falls, Iowa, the Democratic presidential frontrunner on Tuesday offered a full-throated defense of a law that's served as a thorn in the side of big banks: Dodd-Frank.

"It's not the big banks that need relief from Washington -- it's small banks and small businesses," Clinton said. "We should be doing more to rein in risky behavior on Wall Street and 'Too Big to Fail.'"

The former secretary of state also scolded what she said were attempts by congressional Republicans to roll back consumer protection provisions and regulations aimed at big banks in Dodd-Frank, calling them "a cynical attempt to game the system for those at the top."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/19/politics/hillary-clinton-big-banks/

[libdem4life]

55. The Big Banks already have their Treasure Trove it was very important. It was called The Bailout.

[MaggieD]

60. Which she had nothing to do with

You forgot to add that.

[libdem4life]

78. Should have put it like this "It's not the big banks that need relief from Washington, (they already

got theirs)...and I wasn't blaming her, at least on this. She says she wants to "reign in risky behavior of the big banks" who pay her those 6 figure speaking gigs. You don't get $30 million in a few months working with or for small business. Disingenuous.

And I don't believe what she says when it is a sudden conversion based on what Bernie is saying. She's not about to break up the big banks, which is the only way to do what she says she wants to do. That "small business plan" could be written by any staffer with a college degree.

[MaggieD]

46. Then you aren't paying attention, perhaps

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/19/politics/hillary-clinton-big-banks/

[CharlotteVale]

114. I've been paying attention to Clinton's ties to Wall Street since she

voted for the hideous Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2001.

[Hoyt]

37. Not only that, she can get things done. More importantly, she can win.

[Jackpine Radical]

42. The question is whether those things she can get done

are things we WANT done.

[Hoyt]

44. I think you can rest easy. She'll get a lot of good stuff done, if for no other reason that she can

WIN.

[MaggieD]

48. Agreed

[Jackpine Radical]

49. TPP, fracking, and having Serious Conversations abut the petty concerns of the Vast Unwashed?

Hell, yes, I know she was poor once, and not so long ago at that. $10 mil in the hole when they left the White House.

[Autumn]

56. How very disappointing. I see no exploded heads

[99Forever]

57. Cool story bro!

I love a good laugh! Tell us another whopper.

[tiredtoo]

59. She may be a liberal on social issues but

on economic issues she is far too right for me.

[MaggieD]

61. Can you provide examples?

[tiredtoo]

67. No word from her on TPP, Larry Summers

Just a couple of items of concern along with her being banked by Wall Street.

[MaggieD]

73. She has had plenty of words about the TPP

So, try again.

[tiredtoo]

76. Larry Summers and

Only word i heard on TPP is wait and see.

[rhett o rick]

85. Is she recommending it be voted down? If so, I missed it. nm

[MaggieD]

156. Sorry, that's just not true

[tiredtoo]

158. here is a link concerning Hillary and TPP

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/elizabeth-warren_n_7337274.html

[cascadiance]

155. This is NOT a liberal stance!

THIS is a liberal stance on "guest worker" (indentured servant labor) programs like H1B and H2B...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/25/this-is-a-massive-effort-to-attract-cheap-labor-why-sen-bernie-sanders-is-skeptical-of-guest-workers/

...
The bottom line is that I feel, very much, that a lot of the initiative behind these guest workers programs, a very large expansion of guest worker programs — H2B visas would go up to as many as 195,000, H1B to as many as 205,000 a year — is coming from large corporations who want cheap labor from abroad. Absolutely, there is a need for foreign labor. I recognize that in agriculture and certain areas in the high tech industry, you need foreign labor. But this is a massive effort to attract cheap labor, a great disservice to American workers.
...

More data in this DU post...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026630065

[Katashi_itto]

64. Fail.

[rhett o rick]

69. Funny how the new posters here in DU seem to all favor HRC. Maybe my imagination. nm

[MaggieD]

72. Funny how the same people that thought Obama....

... was their puretopian god turned against him the second he had to actually govern. See? Some things are not new at all.

[truebluegreen]

77. Are you familiar with the website politicalcompass.org?

It is fascinating...and sometimes appalling. I was there just yesterday, looking at their analysis of the candidates in 2012. The money quote regarding Obama:

Taking office during the financial meltdown, Obama appointed its principle architects to top economic positions. We list these because many of Obama's detractors absurdly portray him as either a radical liberal or a socialist, while his apologists, equally absurdly, continue to view him as a well-intentioned progressive, tragically thwarted by overwhelming pressures....Between 1998 and the last election, Obama amassed $37.6million from the financial services industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. While 2008 presidential candidate Obama appeared to champion universal health care, his first choice for Secretary of Health was a man who had spent years lobbying on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry against that very concept. Hey! You don't promise a successful pub, and then appoint the Salvation Army to run it. This time around, the honey-tongued President makes populist references to economic justice, while simultaneously appointing as his new Chief of Staff a former Citigroup executive concerned with hedge funds that bet on the housing market to collapse. Obama poses something of a challenge to The Political Compass, because he's a man of so few fixed principles.

My bold.

[rhett o rick]

80. Obama ran as a progressive and governed as a Conservative. While HRC may be on the same page

as Sen Warren on social issues, she differs greatly on economic, foreign policy, MIC, and Security State issues.

[MaggieD]

84. I think she is dead on re: FP

And so is Obama. Maximum impact with minimal blood and treasure spilled.

[rhett o rick]

87. Neither are liberal on Foreign Policy. Obama is killing people with drones like there is no

tomorrow. I think the innocent to SUSPECTED terrorists ratio is 10 to 1. Some are children but I guess that can be rationalized away. In any case it aint liberal.

[MaggieD]

97. Nah

He is brilliant on FP. And so is she. She was easily the best SoS in the last 30-40 years. Hands down.

[Agschmid]

123. Nah.

Our FP is a mess and she was part of it.

Sorry.

Killing people with drones just seems un American.

[rhett o rick]

159. But neither of them are liberal on Foreign Policy are they? When people try to say she is

a liberal, they ignore her hawkish foreign policy. The Neocons love her Foreign Policy.

A

nd the thing is, these neocons have a point. Mrs. Clinton voted for the Iraq war; supported sending arms to Syrian rebels; likened Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, to Adolf Hitler; wholeheartedly backs Israel; and stresses the importance of promoting democracy.

It’s easy to imagine Mrs. Clinton’s making room for the neocons in her administration. No one could charge her with being weak on national security with the likes of Robert Kagan on board.

from: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/opinion/sunday/are-neocons-getting-ready-to-ally-with-hillary-clinton.html?_r=0

You may like her hawkish, neocon-like foreign policy, but the point is that she can't be considered a progressive or populist. Her stands parallel The Third Way. Ok on social issues but very conservative on other issues, like the economy, foreign policy, and the NSA/CIA Security State.

[hrmjustin]

82. .

[hrmjustin]

90. That is not true.

[rhett o rick]

138. Your argument lacks substance. nm

[hrmjustin]

140. So does yours but i am on mirt and see the knew posters daily and can tell you from

experience you are wrong.

[rhett o rick]

143. You mean you have access to their ISP's and can tell if they are sock puppets? nm

[hrmjustin]

144. No that is the admins job.

My point is that the new posters are not mostly Hillary posters like you claimed.

[rhett o rick]

147. How can MIRT tell who a poster supports? nm

[hrmjustin]

148. Because we are required to read their posts when they join.

[Agschmid]

122. Why do you think they are "paid shills"?

[rhett o rick]

139. Heavens no. nm

[giftedgirl77]

157. Definitely your imagination.

[Mnpaul]

74. Hillary's Koch funded DLC attacked liberals

and now she wants us to believe she is one?

No Sale

[MaggieD]

98. Koch funded DLC?

The DLC was dissolved 4 years ago.

[Mnpaul]

102. Yep

They became Obama's cabinet

do you care to address their disdain for liberals?

[MaggieD]

106. Oh good lord

SMH.

[Mnpaul]

113. Figures

I knew you wouldn't address that.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

103. Yeah but it's still a boogieman for some

[onehandle]

75. Yeah but 538 is all about numbers and realty.

Fox News tells me not to trust that witchcraft.

[BreakfastClub]

79. I know she is more liberal than Bill Clinton, and possibly more

liberal than Obama. People have been brainwashed by the right-wing media.

[rhett o rick]

83. She isn't progressive when it comes to the economy or the MIC, or foreign policy, or

the NSA/CIA, etc. It didn't take the Right Wing to point our that she helped George Bush spread the lies of WMD in Iraq. Not very liberal.

[MaggieD]

99. Got any links for that?

[rhett o rick]

141. Yes there are many. But Homey don't play your game. Do you have any links to prove

otherwise? She is a corporatist (Goldman-Sachs) and she likes invading Iraq.

[MaggieD]

142. Breitbart? Fox News? Townhall.com? The "Factor"??

Links like that?

[rhett o rick]

146. If Breitbart said that HRC voted to invade Iraq, would it be untrue?

If Fox News said that HRC supported fracking would it be not true? Howz about the TPP?

I don't go to those sites and have seen lots of evidence that HRC favors Goldman-Sachs over the 99%. Show me otherwise.

I have seen evidence that HRC supports fracking. Do you have any evidence otherwise? How about her support for the TPP?

And it's easy to find evidence that she betrayed the Democratic Party and joined the Republicons to sell the lies about WMD in Iraq.

[MaggieD]

149. Yes, it would make the claims BS

For instance you should know very well that gas is cleaner than coal. And she is talking about fracking in other countries to reduce reliance on oil. And more importantly to break Russia's leverage on smaller countries for need of Russian oil. That Russian grip has very real negative consequences for very real people.

She is also very clear that those countries should regulate gas production to include environmental controls.

She is right about all of that. Spot on in fact. But Deadbart is not going to tell you any of that. That's the problem with using right wing sites as your source.

[rhett o rick]

150. Fracking is destroying our water supplies. She supports fracking so oil companies can

make more profits. The same oil companies that will help her campaign reach $2 billion dollars.

"She is also very clear that those countries should regulate gas production to include environmental controls. " This is rhetoric. She says this but will do nothing to ensure it happens.

What do your sources say that her stand is today on fracking in the USofA?

[MaggieD]

152. Do you have solar panels - are you off the grid?

Do you walk everywhere you go? If not, you are helping to "destroy" our climate.

Let's live in reality land. Gas is cleaner than coal and oil. Her position is no different than Obama. Gas is a better alternative as we work to transition to more renewable energy tech.

But her "support" of fracking is not about this country. It's about countries that are involuntarily being screwed by Russia due to their dependence on Russian oil.

[rhett o rick]

153. Fracking is win-win for big corporations. The oil companies can get more gas and they can

dump their toxic wastes (that would cost them a bundle to get rid of) into our aquifers. As our water supplies get poisoned, Leslie's and Coke can sell us water. Plus fracking is causing hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma, for example. But the oil companies will donate big to HRC's campaign and foundation.

[MaggieD]

154. You didn't answer the question

So I assume you use as much oil and gas as anyone else. Will your heat and hot water and lights and car and Internet and computer all magically work without an energy source if we elect Bernie?

[rhett o rick]

160. You are trying to divert the subject. Fracking is bad for America. It may cost me more

for gas and oil, but we have to stop them from destroying our environment. They are destroying aquifers that will never recover. No problem for PepsiCo, they will gladly supply bottled water to Oklahoma for a nice profit.

There are two sides to this class war and those that push fracking are on the wrong side.

[Ruby the Liberal]

88. LOL! n/t

[Thinkingabout]

92. Though this has been posted the same wrong talking points of denial continues.

Thanks for posting this again, probably will not change the minds of many but the truth is good for the soul, hopefully it may sink in with some.

[SomethingFishy]

96. More like HRC wants to be a liberal but she has lived in the bubble for so long

that she has no idea what being a liberal means.

Supporting Gay Marriage is great, but not so good if the people who are getting married can't afford it.
Immigration reform is awesome. Not so good if we are paying wages that match 3rd world countries.
Criminal Justice Reform. Great, she can undo all the horrible shit her husband did.

The only people who think HRC and Obama are hard core liberals are not actually liberals themselves. Conservatives spend a lot of time telling me what "liberals" think, and usually it has nothing to do with what's going on in my liberal mind.

[lovemydog]

100. Yup. So is President Obama.

I don't know why this upsets anyone.

Welcome here Dem2.

[Number23]

107. So now Nate Silver's group, who has seldom been wrong about anything, is full of it because

the "liberal lions" on DU have declared Hillary a neo-corporatist Third Wayingest fascist corpo-Dem meanie in spite of the overwhelming evidence and numerous links in the piece that say the total opposite.

Totally consistent with this New DU. Right on.

[Agschmid]

124. That was a mouthful.

[giftedgirl77]

130. Let's remember exactly where Nate Silver was in 2012...

Because if memory serves me correctly he was almost dead on but now he must have an agenda, the big meanie.

[Number23]

134. And also remember exactly WHO it was at the time screaming that Big Bad Nate had that agenda

I don't think you or I need a refresher, but it appears that some folks here have extremely short memories. A little article to jog some memories:

'Mitt Romney’s Electoral Problem and the War on Nate Silver'
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2012/10/31/mitt-romneys-electoral-problem-and-the-war-on-nate-silver

But yeah, now he's "lying" and has an agenda! Forget the 57 different sources the author refers to in his OP complete with links to Hillary's voting record and comments. The folks at DU have repeatedly shown that only they know the really real truth! Just look at all those times Obama cut Social Security in complete vindication of the regulars in this forum who screamed he'd do just that!1one!

[AZ Progressive]

108. The liberals I know don't love big corporations and put business over workers

A liberal believes that the people come first, not businesses and especially big business.

[840high]

132. yep

[marmar]

110. hoo boy

It seems to be 'toss a meme against the wall and see if it sticks' week.

[frylock]

120. hard core liberal

[Agschmid]

125. Source?

[frylock]

133. politicalcompass.org

http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2008

[MaggieD]

145. Where only Kucinich and Nader are liberal....

And every other Democratic candidate is a right winger. Well, I guess if some website called "political compass" thinks so it must be true.

[frylock]

161. yeah, they just arbitrarily placed them there..

and those scores weren't based on policy positions, votes, or anything of the sort. How far over into the authoritarian/right quadrant did you score?

[bunnies]

127. lmfao!!!

thanks. I needed a good giggle tonight.

[MannyGoldstein]

129. Construct validity issue

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construct_validity

[DJ13]

151. I see a great career for you in stand up