The Bare Bones of Life
Bernie Sanders’ campaign says it raised $5.2 million in the 18 hours after NH primary
By Nik DeCosta-Klipa Boston.com
(Feb. 10, 2016) — In his victory speech Tuesday night, Bernie Sanders asked supporters across the country to donate to his presidential campaign.
“I’m going to hold a fundraiser right here, right now, across America,” he said before a nationally televised crowd in Concord, New Hampshire. “My request is please go to BernieSanders.com and contribute.”
And contribute, they did.
New Hampshire primary election results (100% Reporting)
(Feb 10, 2016 14:45) — The New Hampshire primaries are Feb. 9. Delegates at stake: 23 bound for Republicans, 24 pledged for Democrats.
This page on the Washington Post’s website looks like a good tool to use to get detailed breakdowns of the past and upcoming primary election results.
What happened in New Hampshire
Donald Trump resoundingly won the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, giving the billionaire mogul his first victory in an improbable and brash campaign that already has turned American politics upside down. On the Democratic side, Sen. Bernie Sanders scored a decisive victory in Tuesday’s New Hampshire presidential primary, embarrassing Hillary Clinton in a state she won eight years ago and upending the Democratic nominating contest.
New Hampshire primary election results
by WashingtonPost.com (Feb. 10, 2016 02:15 EST)
What happened in New Hampshire?
Donald Trump resoundingly won the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, giving the billionaire mogul his first victory in an improbable and brash campaign that already has turned American politics upside down. On the Democratic side, Sen. Bernie Sanders scored a decisive victory in Tuesday’s New Hampshire presidential primary, embarrassing Hillary Clinton in a state she won eight years ago and upending the Democratic nominating contest.
Fundraising site struggles after Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire win By Tom LoBianco, CNN
(Feb. 10, 2016 12:53 AM ET) — Washington (CNN)In the midst of his New Hampshire victory speech, Bernie Sanders held an impromptu, one-minute fundraiser and apparently jammed up one of the pillars of Democratic online fundraising, ActBlue.
“I’m not going to New York City to host a fundraiser on Wall Street. Instead I’m going to hold a fundraiser right here, right now, across America. My request is please go to BernieSanders.com and contribute,” Sanders said Tuesday night, as his speech was carried live.
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Win the New Hampshire Primaries By PATRICK HEALY and JONATHAN MARTINT of the New York times
MANCHESTER, N.H. (Feb. 9, 2016) — Donald J. Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont harnessed working-class fury on Tuesday to surge to commanding victories in a New Hampshire primary that drew a huge turnout across the state.
The success by two outsider candidates dealt a remarkable rebuke to the political establishment, and all but guaranteed protracted, bruising races for each party’s presidential nomination.
Highlights of this article:
“Together we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington, from Maine to California,” Mr. Sanders said. “And that is that the government of our great country belongs to all of the people, and not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their ‘super PACs.’ ”
“While Mr. Sanders led New Hampshire polls for the last month, and Mr. Trump was ahead here since July, the wave of support for both men was nonetheless stunning to leaders of both parties who believed that in the end, voters would embrace more experienced candidates like Mrs. Clinton or one of the Republican governors in the race. Yet the two men won significant support from voters who felt betrayed by their parties and were dissatisfied or angry with the federal government.”
“Clinton advisers gritted their teeth Tuesday night as they dissected exit polls and other data to try to fathom the depth of Mrs. Clinton’s political vulnerabilities. One troubling sign: Mr. Sanders was the choice, nearly unanimously, among voters who said it was most important to have a candidate who is “honest and trustworthy.”Several advisers to Mrs. Clinton said they were especially concerned about her shakier-than-expected support among women — the group that provided her margin for victory in the 2008 New Hampshire primary. The Clinton strategy depends on her beating Mr. Sanders among women and attracting large numbers of minority voters, like Hispanics in Nevada and African-Americans in South Carolina. Those states hold the next Democratic contests, later this month.”
Bill Clinton Accuser Kathleen Willey to Campaign Against Hillary By Bob Unruh, Front Page,Politics,U.S.
(Feb. 8, 2016 11:30) — Just days after former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright bizarrely threatened women who won’t help Hillary Clinton with “hell,” a woman who has accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault revealed she’s formally linking arms with an anti-Hillary effort.
Former Clinton volunteer Kathleen Willey, whose book “Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton” describes the mob-style threats she suffered at the hands of the Clintons, is joining up with Republican strategist Roger Stone, Reuters reported.
Hillary Clinton’s $675,000 Goldman Sachs Paid Speech Transcripts Requests Evidence Lack of Credibility
(Feb. 7, 2016) — Hillary Clinton’s tendency to omit and obfuscate historical information has been an ongoing problem for her even more so now as the presumptive 2016 democratic nominee for president. In light of the latest debacle, the requests for the transcripts of her paid speeches with Goldman Sachs where she was paid $675,000 are not appearing to go away.
The speeches Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs, and in light of the amount of fees she was paid, have spawned questions about her ability to not beholden to Wall Street if she were to be elected president and in light of the heated debate over campaign finance reform.
The request for actual transcripts of what Clinton said during those talks at Goldman Sachs is indicative of the lack of credibility she has to be able to be taken at her word.
Creating personalized historical time-lines appear to be a tendency of Clinton’s as noted by Carl Bernstein, known for his investigative Watergate reporting leading to the downfall of former president Richard Nixon.
Bernstein’s investigative reporting of Nixon also involved the acquisition of transcripts of audio recordings made of Nixon’s conversations inside the White House.
“Hillary has never wanted anyone else to tell her story except herself,” Bernstein said in a 2007 interview with CNN when discussing his book on the former first lady “A Woman in Charge,” released that same year.
“The former first lady’s 2003 autobiography ‘Living History’ was full of ‘omissions (and) obfuscation,'” Bernstein told CNN.
During Thursday night’s New Hampshire one-on-one debate with her 2016 presidential bid opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton was asked by MSNBC moderator Chuck Todd if she would release the transcripts of her paid speeches.
“I will look into it,” Clinton said. “I don’t know the status, but I would surely look into it.”
Clinton has already begun digging a hole around herself related to the speeches by characterizing the talks as being little more than a discussion of “issues that had to do with world affairs.”
Meanwhile, the matter has not gone away.
Powerhouse investigative journalists have already committed to uncovering the truth behind Clinton’s Goldman Sachs paid speeches.
Lee Fang, a reporter for the “The Intercept” has previously written about the transcripts in his article released Thursday, “Hillary Clinton Won’t Say if She’ll Release Transcripts of Goldman Sachs Speeches.”
Fang said when he asked Clinton about the transcripts two weeks before Thursday’s debate she, “Simply laughed and turned away.”
It appears the issues is not going away for the former first lady where leading investigative journalists are right on her heals.
Given Clinton’s ongoing lack of credibility to be taken at her own word, it appears the only way this matter can be resolved is if she releases the transcripts.
All 435 seats up for election come November
(Feb. 7, 2016) — According to the political information website MyCityconnected.us all, “435 seats will be up for election this November.”
MyCityConnected provides the website visitor a number of useful tools to include blogs, events, forums, groups, polls, and albums. The website also has a useful search feature to find out more information about elected representatives.
Bernie Sanders to Appear on ‘Saturday Night Live’ Opposite Doppelgänger Larry David
By Us Weekly February 6, 2016
According to a senior campaign official, Sanders, 74, will be making the detour to New York during his campaign trip to New Hampshire. The New York Times reports that David, 68, will interview Sanders at one point in the evening.
UBS Deal Shows Clinton’s Complicated Ties
Donations to family foundation increased after secretary of state’s involvement in tax case
By JAMES V. GRIMALDI and REBECCA BALLHAUS
Updated July 30, 2015 8:27 a.m. ET
A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter. The Internal Revenue Service was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts.
