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Yes, Bernie Sanders. He's quite popular with voters but far less so with senior party officials (delegates) because he's 'too left' for them. He wants to break down the monopoly of the banks etc. It doesn't go down well over there, surprisingly...
Ultimately, Clinton will edge it because she has the support of senior party officials.
Full speed ahead for Clinton v Trump...
As DTLW says.
The USA can't make Trump President can they.? I mean really, can they.? Even George W appears a sane choice compared to Trump. Trump reminds me of the stooge meglomaniac villain in a James Bond film [not that I'd know much about them]. Al he needs is the white cat. Perhaps he could stroke his hair.?
Even in the popular vote, Clinton has a solid lead.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_vote_count.html
Pretty strange that Bernie does not have the black or latino vote, as they are the poorest classes and Bernie is the most left wing option
Hopefully, he won't make good on his currently-stated intent to turn this into a convention floor fight; the idea that he is going to lose the popular vote, lose on pledged delegates, and then win by swinging hundreds of superdelegates (after spending months denouncing them as the sort of people who'd be willing to go against a candidate who won the popular vote and on pledged delegates) is absurd. The progressive left in the US has a wonderful, storied history of turning positive if incremental gains into opportunities for self-defeating infighting, and a quixotic battle at the convention with Trump looming would be just about the pinnacle.
Apparently they had the wrong lists and people have been asked to come back later. Someone is going to get their arse kicked.
I have some friends who live in Barnet. They went to the polling station this morning with their polling cards and were told they couldn't vote. May be more of an isolated issue than what was obviously a wider one affecting people without the polling cards.
I had no idea there were elections going on, i have also never voted in my life. I intend to make my first vote an out vote next month.
Are you kidding me you got to register, are they making it difficult on purpose. I'm guessing its an online registration and the fact its not being advertised that i've seen is there hope of a small turn out?
British PM says he respects billionaire for making it through Republican primaries but refuses to retract earlier criticism
Speaking at a joint press conference at 10 Downing Street alongside his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, Cameron said, having come through the tough primary process, Trump “deserves our respect”.
“Knowing the gruelling nature of the primaries, what you have to go through to go on and represent your party in a general election – anyone who makes it through that deserves our respect,” he said.
However, he added: “What I said about Muslims, I wouldn’t change that view. I’m very clear that the policy idea that was put forward was wrong, it is wrong, and it will remain wrong"
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/05/david-cameron-donald-trump-deserves-respect
No he doesn't.
Good to see he's not backing down. Saying we should respect him for going through the process is just being diplomatic without actually complimenting him.
I wouldn't even do that though. The guy deserves nothing. All he has done is get all the racists in America to vote for him.
We're all lucky we're not politicians and can say what we like. Politicians have to try to work with these idiots. He probably wants to call him a racist idiot.