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On November 8, 2016 Bernie
Sanders will achieve a dominant victory over Donald Trump. Already, Sanders
defeats Trump in the polls by a wider margin than Hillary Clinton, as
illustrated in a December 22, 2015 Hill article titled "In blockbuster poll, Sanders
destroys Trump by 13 points":
Stop the presses! According to
a new poll by Quinnipiac University on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) destroys
Republican candidate Donald Trump in a general election by 13 percentage
points. In this new poll, Sanders has 51 percent to Trump's 38 percent.
If this margin held in a
general election, Democrats would almost certainly regain control of the United
States Senate and very possibly the House of Representatives.
It is noteworthy that in this
Quinnipiac poll, Sanders runs so much stronger than Clinton against Trump...
In the December 22 poll,
Bernie Sanders defeats Trump by 13 points, while Clinton beats Trump by 7
points.
There are numerous reasons
Bernie Sanders will achieve this dominant victory over a billionaire xenophobe
who panders to the fears and base passions of conservatives. First, Bernie
Sanders warns against the influence of money and power in politics, and "welcomes the hatred" of the billionaire class
that Trump personifies. Sanders won the Congressional Award from the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
while Trump insulted Vietnam Veteran and former POW John McCain. There
are a great many other reasons that I'll highlight in the future, when Sanders
becomes the Democratic nominee. Overall, Bernie Sanders genuinely cares about
ending wealth inequality and perpetual wars, while Trump is a buffoon who's
spent most of his time making headlines for outrageous statements.
Most importantly, Sanders is
the antithesis of Trump and gives voters a stark contrast in choice; not so
with Hillary. POLITICO writes that Clinton "received donations from
both him and son Donald Trump Jr. on separate occasions in 2002, 2005, 2006 and
2007, according to state and federal disclosure records." You'll never get
a Clinton supporter to address these donations, or why Trump once felt it would
be advantageous to become one of Clinton's donors.
Trump also gave $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation, in either a moment of
pure altruism, or another campaign donation akin to Clinton's foreign donor scandal.
While the recent Quinnipiac
poll shows Clinton defeating Trump, the underlying data shows that generally,
Americans don't trust the former Secretary of State. 59 percent of American voters believe Clinton is "not
honest and trustworthy." 55 percent of American voters say "she does not share
their values." 50 percent of American voters feel Clinton "does not
care about their needs and problems." Like every other poll in 2008 and
2015 illustrating Clinton's wide lead over a challenger, voters say they'll
vote for a candidate they don't trust, or feel doesn't care about their
problems.
If you view polls as gospel
and place a premium on recent polls, then Quinnipiac also states 72 percent of Independents don't believe Clinton is honest
and trustworthy. This is a dangerous number for Democrats since 43 percent of Americans according to Gallup are
independent.
Also, 49 percent (compared to 44 percent) of American women
don't view Clinton as honest or trustworthy, while over 62% of voters ages 35-64 don't find Clinton honest or
trustworthy.
From ages 18 to over 65, there
was no age group that found Clinton honest or trustworthy, and 59 percent of
Americans age 18-34 don't find Clinton to be honest or trustworthy.
51 percent of registered voters have an unfavorable view
of Clinton (compared to 43 percent), while Bernie Sanders has a positive net
favorability of 9 points.
Again, this Quinnipiac poll is
from December 22, 2015. Most polls, like this one, contradict
their findings; Americans will never vote for a candidate they don't like and
don't trust, linked to an FBI investigation.
On December 18, 2007 Gallup stated that Clinton Maintains Large Lead Over Obama
Nationally. It never lasted, and I explain why Clinton is unelectable due to
negative favorability ratings in this YouTube
segment.
Bernie Sanders will win the
Democratic nomination because if Clinton was ever going to win, it would have
been in 2008, not during an investigation of her emails by the FBI. On December
11, POLITICO explained why the FBI's investigation is just
getting started in a piece titled "State Department can't find emails of
top Clinton IT staffer":
The FBI has taken possession
of Bryan Pagliano's computer system...
Clinton had personally paid
Pagliano to maintain her home-made server, which is also currently in the FBI's
possession. The agency has been investigating whether classified material was
ever put at risk because she used her own server instead of the standard State
email system.
The State Department has designated about 1,000 of her emails as
classified documents, which would never have been allowed on such a private
system.
Considering that hackers from various countries already tried to access
Clinton's server, Pagliano pleaded the Fifth, and two computer systems are in the
FBI's custody, this story won't end before Election Day.
As for the belief that African
American voters and other non-white Democrats will overwhelmingly vote for
Clinton in South Carolina and throughout the South, people aren't poll numbers.
A Daily Beast article on December 29, 2015 titled
"Hillary Clinton's Tone-Deaf Racial Pandering" explains why poll
numbers might not equate to votes:
Hillary Clinton's minority
outreach over the last week has rekindled the idea that she is a candidate who
is out of touch, particularly when it comes to minorities. To many of us, her
campaign's insistence that she is an abuela for Latinos and the changing of her
Twitter logo to represent Kwanzaa came across as pandering at its worst...
If more of Clinton's outreach
attempts seem tone deaf or overly reliant on her previous successes than her
present rapport with today's voters, it will be difficult for her to shake the
image of being out of touch.
It's important to also note
that Clinton's attempt at pandering comes months after progressive groups
pressured her to stop taking money from prison lobbyists. The Intercept writes "As immigration and
incarceration issues become central to the 2016 presidential campaign,
lobbyists for two major prison companies are serving as top fundraisers for
Hillary Clinton."
Finally, I find it bizarre
that certain people still brand me as a Paul supporter, even though I'm a
lifelong Democrat against perpetual war (I only wrote the piece because Obama
had sent more Americans back to the Middle East and I'm vehemently opposed to
more Americans dying in quagmires), and I now view the Paul article last year
as a mistake.
I'm also only voting for
Bernie Sanders.
Conversely, Hillary Clinton
views Iraq as a "mistake," yet her supporters have no problem
seeing the former New York Senator as president. The Iraq war destabilized the
Middle East, I simply angered fellow progressives.
If you hear any wild conspiracy
theories about me, or ridiculous accusations, simply send my detractors this YouTube
segment. As for why I'm writing non-stop about Bernie Sanders, nothing
epitomizes my desire to see Sanders as the Democratic nominee and president
than this POLITIFACT article titled "Yes, Clinton used the Bush
administration line":
"President Bush and Dick
Cheney insisted there was a connection. Senator Clinton on the floor of the
Senate suggested that there was such a connection," Obama said in an
interview on MSNBC's Hardball on March 11, 2008.
In that speech, Clinton
explained her reasoning... "He [Saddam] has also given aid, comfort, and
sanctuary to terrorists, including al-Qaida members..."
Sanders opposed Iraq and
foreshadowed its tragic consequences, going against establishment Democrats and
neoconservative Republicans; both would become even more intertwined with a Clinton presidency.
In contrast, Clinton echoed
Bush and Cheney talking points about al Qaeda in Saddam's Iraq. If you vote for
anyone other than Bernie Sanders in 2016, you're simply not a progressive,
especially knowing that Trump is a racist xenophobe and Clinton utilized the same tactics against Obama in 2008. You're also voting
for endless wars with Trump or Clinton, while Bernie Sanders
says "I'll be dammed" to more quagmires.
This year, it's Bernie Sanders
against an establishment upheld by Trump and Clinton. I explain why Bernie
Sanders will become president during an appearance on The Thom
Hartmann Program. If you listen to the segment, you'll understand exactly
why Bernie Sanders will become president in 2016.
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