Election

Calling Clinton’s Bluff, Sanders Reveals What His Paid Speeches Look Like
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said during a town hall on Thursday evening she will release transcripts of paid, closed-door speeches she gave to Wall Street firms "when everyone else does." That may be sooner than she thinks. [...]
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Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight
Hillary, the inevitable liar. Hillary Clinton is a bold-faced, war-warmongering, bloodthirsty compulsive liar - with an ego the size of the White House. Hillary Clinton says that she is the most transparent woman in American politics. There's just one problem - Hillary Clinton lies... a lot. Ben Shapiro takes a trip in the way back machine to look at a few of the more egregious examples. [...]
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Hillary Clinton’s Very Bad Night
The magnitude of Hillary Clinton’s New Hampshire drubbing has establishment Democrats wringing their hands as it dawns on them that no candidate in modern U.S. political history has bounced back from a 22-point loss in that first-in-the-nation primary to win the White House, reports Robert Parry. [...]
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Can the Establishment Fix Its Bernie Sanders Problem?
The Democrats’ fight against Bernie is appearing futile. Like a python choking on an elephant, they’ve miscalculated. The Party elites underestimated their opponent, and with each new attack the snake swallows an extra inch, harming only itself. Establishment figureheads are taking turns [...]
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Hillary Sanders? Clinton singing Bernie’s tune on banks, campaign finance
Hillary Clinton lost the New Hampshire primary vote, but her concession speech sounded like that of a winner, specifically the one who had just defeated her: Bernie Sanders. On the issues of big banks and campaign finance reform, the echo was clear. “Senator Sanders and I both want to get secret unaccountable money out of politics,” Clinton told supporters on Tuesday night after results sh [...]
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‘Artful Smear’ Attack Backfires as Clinton Accused of Denying Impact of Big Money
Hillary Clinton is under fire for defending the millions of dollars she has collected from Wall Street and other monied interests, as critics charge that her rationalization of those contributions ignores the dangers of a pay-for-play political system and amounts to an acceptance—if not a "tacit embrace"—of the role of money in politics. [...]
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I’m a Woman and I Will Vote for the Best Feminist for President: Bernie Sanders
I won’t vote against Hillary Clinton because she’s female, but I don’t intend to vote for her because I am. We need more fundamental changes in this country I am a feminist. And I would like to one day break the glass ceiling with a progressive woman who sees class and race as fundamental problems in American society. [...]
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Did Hillary’s Machine Rig Iowa? The Highly Improbable Iowa Coin Tosses
Hillary Clinton “won” the Iowa caucuses, in part because of 6 coin tosses all of which she won! Six precincts, at least, ended up with a dead tie between the two candidates. The tie was broken and a winner declared based on a coin toss in each case. [...]
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On Eve of NH, Sanders Wins Women Voters, Trounces GOP
The senator from Vermont has 16-point lead on Clinton in New Hampshire, and other results show he'd win against any Republican nominee, which Clinton wouldn't Bernie Sanders is not only ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, where the next U.S. presidential primary will take place on February 9, he is also leading her among female voters and proves more electable against Republican rivals, [...]
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Hillary Clinton out to prove she’s got ‘more testosterone than the boys’
Clinton’s stance on Syria, Russia and Iran is far more hawkish than Obama’s, investigative journalist Harry Stuckey told RT, adding that the former secretary of state has an 'overcompensation complex.' People on both sides of the political aisle in the United States are concerned that Democratic hopeful for the US presidency, Hillary Clinton, may have one too many personality flaws to serve [...]
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No ‘Artful Smear.’ Clintons Paid $153 Million in Speaking Fees, Analysis Shows
There has been a lot of talk in recent weeks about the speaking fees paid to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and an analysis published Saturday sheds some light on exactly how much Wall Street and other major corporate powers ponied up for the former Secretary of State and her husband, President Bill Clinton. [...]
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Clinton: A “Progressive” Who Gets What Done?
Cohen is director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, founder of media watch group FAIR and co-founder of the online activism organization RootsAction.org, which just released the statement “Thousands Ask Clinton to ‘Stop Lying’ About Iraq Vote.” At last night’s debate in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton again described herself as a “progressive who gets things [...]
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Bernie Sanders won the debate’s Google fight — in more ways than one
Usually on debate night, we track what people are searching for on Google as a way of assessing what people are curious about as the candidates tussle. Among the most-searched questions on Sanders: How to give him money. [...]
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Hillary Is the Candidate of the War Machine
There's no doubt that Hillary is the candidate of Wall Street. Even more dangerous, though, is that she is the candidate of the military-industrial complex. The idea that she is bad on the corporate issues but good on national security has it wrong. Her so-called foreign policy "experience" has been to support every war demanded by the US deep security state run by the military and the CIA. [...]
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Bernie Sanders raised more money in January than Hillary Clinton
While Bernie Sanders narrowly lost the Iowa primary to rival Hillary Clinton, he soundly won in the fundraising game in January. The Clinton campaign said Thursday that it raised a total of $15 million in the year’s first month, falling short of Sanders’ $20 million raised during the same period. [...]
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Shaking Up the Democratic Party
By demanding a “revolution” to shift power away from Wall Street, Sen. Sanders is attracting millions of young Americans who want fundamental change. He’s also upsetting the Democratic establishment which favors only incremental “reforms” acceptable to corporate interests, as Norman Solomon notes. Forty-eight years ago, a serious insurrection jeopardized the power structure of the nat [...]
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Iowa coin flip caucus: ‘Arcane for modern democracy’
Anything about the Iowa caucus is strange for the US or any other modern elections; it is an arcane process for a modern democracy to have, said Andrew Joyce, contributor to the Fusion news website. How common is it to decide election results through a coin toss? Is it fair? [...]
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Doubts Emerge in Some Corners About Integrity of the Iowa Democratic Caucuses
Several sources are alleging improprieties. Though Hillary Clinton declared victory over Democratic rival Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses early Tuesday morning, there were audible grumblings from multiple corners about the integrity of the vote tallies. [...]
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Sanders on the ‘Edge’? Really, New York Times?
Today on The BradCast, we discuss the Iowa caucuses and examine how the mainstream corporate media have decided for themselves which candidates are and are not acceptable for American voters. Jim Naureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting joins us to discuss the marginalization [...]
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