The New Yorker: Radical Measures

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Yet any pleasure that she might have taken in finding her competitors, this time around, to be a seventy-four-year-old socialist and a tremulous former governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley, dissipated last week. At the time of the first debate, Clinton was eighteen points ahead of Sanders in the Real Clear Politics average of national polls, with forty-three per cent to his twenty-five. Now the gap has narrowed to eight points. In Iowa, which holds its caucus on February 1st, the two are trading off the lead in recent polls. In New Hampshire, which votes eight days later, Sanders is ahead by six per cent. He could win both races. Just as telling as the numbers is the enthusiasm level—the large crowds he attracts, the “Feel the Bern” buttons, the twitter love fed by a campaign organization that is tougher, more tightly run, and more tech-savvy than expected. Democratic voters under the age of forty-five prefer Sanders by a margin of about two to one, according to a new Times/CBS poll. Iowa and New Hampshire will be followed by Nevada and then by South Carolina and several states in the Deep South, where Clinton is expected to do well, thanks to the support of African-American voters. Still, last week Sanders told CBS that he thought Clinton’s campaign was getting “very, very nervous.”


“I’m not nervous at all,” Clinton said on Wednesday, on the “Today” show, but, she added, “it’s time to draw some contrasts.” On Tuesday, Chelsea Clinton, campaigning for her mother in New Hampshire, took a question from a teacher at Miss Porter’s School (Jacqueline Bouvier’s alma mater), whose pro-Clinton students were in need of a talking point to counter their Bern-feeling contemporaries. “Senator Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare, dismantle the CHIP program, dismantle Medicare,” Chelsea said. That could “strip millions and millions and millions of people of their health insurance.” Politifact rated the assertion “mostly false.” Sanders has proposed a single-payer system that would automatically cover everyone. He calls it “Medicare for all,” which may be wildly impractical, but it is not the same as Medicare dismantled.

Hillary Clinton also tried to portray Sanders as “a pretty reliable vote for the gun lobby,” even though the N.R.A. gave him a grade of D-minus. Her charge is based largely on Sanders’s 2005 vote for a measure that made it harder to sue gun manufacturers and dealers; he has said that the liability small dealers faced was too broad. Last week, Vice-President Joe Biden told CNN that Sanders’s position on guns was now in line with President Obama’s. Biden, being Biden, went on to note that he considered Clinton to be something of an arriviste in the fight against income inequality, adding fondly that “no one questions Bernie’s authenticity on those issues.”

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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/radical-measures

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1. Chelsea blew her rep.at posh boarding school w/students too young to vote!?!?

On Tuesday, Chelsea Clinton, campaigning for her mother in New Hampshire, took a question from a teacher at Miss Porter’s School (Jacqueline Bouvier’s alma mater), whose pro-Clinton students were in need of a talking point to counter their Bern-feeling contemporaries.

That's what you call a lose-lose! Seems like Chelsea has the same open mouth/insert foot proclivities as her parents.

As far as the students' debate, now the pro-Bernie group can rub the pro-Hillary group's collective nose in the mud - the best that Hill's daughter could come up has been labeled a lie in the MSM and social media!
Why send Chelsea to campaign there? Probably hoping to generate hefty campaign contributions from the parents who can afford $55,000 a year for their high school age kids.

Miss Porter's School (also known as Porter's, Farmington, or MPS) is a private college preparatory school for girls located in Farmington, Connecticut. It is a selective school that excels in academics and athletics. Its acceptance rate is 20% with an average Secondary School Admission Test score in the 92nd percentile. It was named the number one girls' boarding school by U.S. New.

Located in Connecticut/enrollment 320.
Annual tuition $55,475 boarding
$45,055 day[1]

Porter's alumnae call themselves "Ancients."[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Porter's_School