This is why we have to unite behind either Sanders or Clinton

[Else You Are Mad]

After it is decided who will be the democrat candidate, we have to unite and ensure that Trump will not win. Otherwise, we will have 4 or 8 years of his supporters intimidating those that oppose him with threats like these:

. An 84-year-old woman who fled Austria as a child with her family to escape the Nazis was mailed a KKK symbol after openly criticizing GOP front-runner Donald Trump, according to the Boston Globe.

Louise Mayerson told the paper she received the anonymous envelope in the mail after writing a letter that was published in the Globe earlier this month.

“I have found some alarming rhetoric coming from Donald Trump that is apparently finding approval from large numbers of my fellow Americans,” she wrote. “With Trump’s rather ambiguous response concerning his disavowal of the support of former Klansman David Duke, I have reached my breaking point”

Just days later, she received the envelope containing a square white cross and red background, the symbol of America’s oldest and most violent hate group..

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/kkk-tries-to-silence-84-year-old-woman-who-fled-the-nazis-after-she-criticizes-trump/

[revbones]

1. Some will choose to live and vote based on fear. Not all will... nt

[NCjack]

2. When Hillary was running against Barack, she stayed in the race until May or June, if my

memory serves correctly. As long as Bernie sees a path, I'm sending him money.

[Else You Are Mad]

5. Oh, I agree.

I hope Bernie stays in it for the long haul and gets the nomination!

[pnwmom]

11. She gave him her delegates well before the convention. n/t

[Wounded Bear]

3. I'm glad she went to the authorities...

hope someone gets prosecuted.

[GreatGazoo]

4. What if Trump is not their nominee ??

How does Clinton beat Cruz or Kasich?

[Else You Are Mad]

6. Hopefully...

She beats either. The point of my whole post was that we keep the republicans out of the White House.

Preferably though, I hope Sanders soundly beats whoever the GOP candidate is.

[lagomorph777]

7. Not very easily I'm afraid...

If you actually take the time to look at the polls, Hillary is consistently the weakest Democratic candidate in the GE. Fortunately, the same polls show that Trump is the weakest GOP candidate in the GE.

Polls consistently show that both parties are on track to nominate their weakest candidates:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html

General Election: Trump vs. Clinton
Poll Date Clinton (D) Trump (R) Spread
RCP Average 2/11 - 3/6 47.3 41.0 Clinton +6.3

General Election: Cruz vs. Clinton
Poll Date Cruz (R) Clinton (D) Spread
RCP Average 2/10 - 3/6 46.2 45.4 Cruz +0.8

General Election: Trump vs. Sanders
Poll Date Sanders (D) Trump (R) Spread
RCP Average 2/10 - 3/6 50.8 40.8 Sanders +10.0

General Election: Cruz vs. Sanders
Poll Date Sanders (D) Cruz (R) Spread
RCP Average 2/10 - 2/27 50.0 40.3 Sanders +9.7

[GreatGazoo]

8. yes. Clinton only does well against Trump, not the others

Some of that goes back to this:



Both Trump and Clinton are running bandwagon campaigns, cult of personality that in some ways mirror each other. When either is put head to head against a campaign by someone with lower negatives and which actually lays out policy goals, they struggle.

[world wide wally]

9. With a few million disenfranchised Trump supporters who are pissed off?

Do you really think they will support the proxy candidate?

[GreatGazoo]

10. Don't you think some will turn out just to vote against HRC?

Cruz and Kasich can play to the racist sexist, fear thing. Trump has registered hundreds of thousands of voters that will likely never vote for HRC.

[world wide wally]

12. No,

They are equally as likely to burn down Cleveland

[Else You Are Mad]

14. I have no doubt in my mind...

That Cleveland will burn come July 21, even if Trump gets the nomination. Trump supporters that probably do not fully understand primary rules will riot if there is any intimation of GOP shenanigans. They support Trump for the violence and he already has dog whistled his base telling them to riot.

[calguy]

17. She beats Cruz or Kasich easily

If either of these two were to snatch away the nomination, Trump and his supporters would bolt or even maybe riot as Trump would say. They go into the election with a very fractured and pissed off party, either way.

Either way the GOP goes, they are so screwed.

[Baobab]

13. Manipulation of the electorate is wearing thin with everybody.

Trump thugs have all the mark of the fake health insurer fans going back to Harry and Louise

I would be willing to bet money that there is some PR firm organizing them.

Manipulating the country.

I do not see Trump actually wanting the Presidency.

To be honest with you I see Hillary as out-Republicaning Republicans.

Since I already know that Hillary turned a blind eye to fascist dictatorships abuse of union organizers and successfully blocked a raise in the minimum wage in Haiti. I am afraid a vote for her would not be in the country's best interests.

If life has taught me anything its to trust my intuition and not fall for various schemes to game my vote away.

[pampango]

15. Indeed if the Social Democratic party, Communist party and others had united in 1932, German history

might have been different. They did not unite. The rest is history. But at least they did not compromise their principles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_July_1932

[Else You Are Mad]

16. Thom Hartmann wrote a good article regarding that.

It is well worth a read:

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/what-will-trump-presidency-look-rise-nazis-pretty-good-guide

[basselope]

18. I don't vote for Republicans.

So I can't vote for Clinton. Sorry.

[Else You Are Mad]

19. Seriously...

You would prefer an apocalyptic theocrat or a sociopathic plutocrat verging on fascist?! Because let me tell you, even though I am a Bernie supporter, I would prefer the continuation of the status quo under Hillary over that. Please, rethink your stance. Even Sanders said he would support Clinton if he loses!!

[basselope]

20. I NEVER planned on voting for her, even before Bernie announced.

Nothing has happened to change my mind.

I will likely vote the same way I voted in 2008 and 2012 with the Green Party.