{"id":9804,"date":"2015-06-17T15:46:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9804"},"modified":"2015-06-17T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:46:29","slug":"hey-whats-happening-on-the-democratic-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9804","title":{"rendered":"Hey, what’s happening on the Democratic side?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Republican presidential candidates are gobbling up all the attention these days.<\/p>\n

Have you noticed what’s happening in the “other” party’s presidential race? The once-unstoppable Hillary Rodham Clinton is looking, well, a bit stoppable<\/em> these days.<\/p>\n

Polling data suggest that Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who’s running in the Democratic Party primary against Clinton, has closed a lot of the once-huge gap between the two of them.<\/p>\n

He trails Clinton now by just 9 points in New Hampshire, according to new data.<\/p>\n

OK, it’s fair to ask: Is that a home-boy advantage for Sanders, given that he hails from next-door Vermont?<\/p>\n

His crowds are huge. The excitement appears to be real. He’s speaking to the Everyman among us, railing against wage equality and declaring — without equivocation — that he opposed the Iraq War authorization from the get-go, unlike Clinton, who approved it.<\/p>\n

It’s still a significant stretch to believe that Sanders is going to be nominated next summer at the Democratic National Convention. Two others also are running to the left of HRC — former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee.<\/p>\n

Democrats aren’t likely to actually nominate an avowed socialist<\/em> whose major campaign platform plank has been to call for massive redistribution of wealth.<\/p>\n

Actually, of the three men running against Clinton, I find Chafee to be the most interesting, given that he once was a Republican.<\/p>\n

But those gentlemen are far behind the two<\/em> Democratic frontrunners.<\/p>\n

How strange it seems to be talking today about Sen. Sanders as someone with at least a shot at derailing the Clinton Express.<\/p>\n

Now, let’s\u00a0all turn our attention\u00a0back to those crazy Republicans … shall we?<\/p>\n

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Republican presidential candidates are gobbling up all the attention these days. Have you noticed what’s happening in the “other” party’s presidential race? The once-unstoppable Hillary Rodham Clinton is looking, well, a bit stoppable these days. Polling data suggest that Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who’s running in the Democratic Party primary against Clinton, has … Continue reading Hey, what’s happening on the Democratic side?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[73,597,1343,2140,2795,2936,3700,3917,5246],"class_list":["post-9804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-campaign","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democrats","tag-hillary-rodham-clinton","tag-lincoln-chafee","tag-martin-omalley","tag-presidency","tag-republicans","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}