HILLARY'S PHONY CHARITY IS FUNDED BY DICTATORS
SHE SERVED AS SEC. OF STATE, OBAMA'S CRONY
BANKSTERS AND CRIMINAL BILLIONAIRES, LIKE THE
ONES BILLARY HANDED PARDONS FOR BRIBES AS HE
LEFT OFFICE!
Sanders has attacked Clinton for her close ties to the major banks, demanding that she release the transcripts of speeches to audiences at Goldman Sachs and other financial institutions, for which she received six-figure fees. He told a campaign rally Thursday, “I do not receive many millions
of dollars from Wall Street or the pharmaceutical industry or other powerful, wealthy interests in this country, and have not given speeches for hundreds of thousands of dollars to Wall Street.”
Clinton sweeps South Carolina primary as turnout plunges
By Patrick Martin
29 February 2016
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the South Carolina Democratic primary Saturday by a huge margin, defeating Vermont Senator
Bernie Sanders by 74 percent to 26 percent. Clinton won 39 delegates to
the Democratic nominating convention, compared to 14 for Sanders.
It was Clinton’s first substantial victory in the campaign for the
Democratic presidential nomination, following narrow wins in caucuses in
Iowa and Nevada and a sizeable defeat in the first primary, in New
Hampshire. She now leads in total elected delegates, 91 to 65, with some
2,500 required for nomination.
Clinton ran up huge totals amongAfrican-American voters in the state, with an overall margin of 86
percent to 14 percent, including a 96 percent to 3 percent margin among
black voters over 65. Sanders won only two demographic groups tracked in
exit polls: white voters and voters under age 30.
Clinton had the support of virtually all the state’s Democratic Party officeholders,
including its only Democratic congressman, Jim Clyburn, the deputy
minority whip, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, and a member of
the Congressional Black Caucus, which also endorsed Clinton.
Voter turnout plunged in the South Carolina primary compared to 2008, when
Clinton was badly beaten by Barack Obama. Clinton won fewer votes in the
two-person contest with Sanders than Obama won in a three-way contest
with Clinton and John Edwards eight years ago.
The total vote in South Carolina primaries for both big business parties, held a week
apart, was 978,000 in 2008 and 999,000 in 2016, but the balance between
the Republicans and Democrats shifted dramatically. In 2008, 532,000
voted in the Democratic primary and 446,000 in the Republican. This
year, only 361,000 voted in the Democratic primary while 738,000 voted
in the Republican contest, won by billionaire demagogue Donald Trump.
Sanders poured significant resources into the state, including 200 volunteers
and nearly $2 million in campaign advertising, but effectively conceded
the contest earlier this week as polls showed Clinton with an
insuperable lead.
The main focus of the Clinton campaign was to appeal to identity politics, based on Clinton’s gender and her pastclose ties with the black Democratic Party establishment, while claiming
that Sanders’s rhetorical attacks on Wall Street and economicinequality made his a “single issue” campaign.
Sanders has attacked Clinton for her close ties to the major banks, demanding that she release the transcripts of speeches to audiences at Goldman Sachs and other financial institutions, for which she received six-figure fees. He told a campaign rally Thursday, “I do not receive many millions
of dollars from Wall Street or the pharmaceutical industry or other powerful, wealthy interests in this country, and have not given speeches for hundreds of thousands of dollars to Wall Street.”
But he hasavoided any discussion of foreign policy, and particularly the
aggressive preparation by the Obama administration for wider military
action in the Middle East and provocative deployments against Russia and
China, confining his criticism to Clinton’s vote 14 years ago for war
in Iraq.
There are 11 states with Democratic Party contestsTuesday. Clinton is heavily favored in polls taken in the six Southernstates voting March 1—Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and
Virginia—which account for two-thirds of the delegates to be selected
that day.
Sanders has focused on the other five states, where heis in the lead or competitive: primaries in Massachusetts, Oklahoma andVermont, and caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota. He addressed a seriesof large rallies this week, including 10,000 in Austin, Texas, 8,000 in
Dallas and 7,000 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, finishing Saturday by speaking to
supporters in Rochester, Minnesota.
Because of proportionalrepresentation, Clinton would not be able to clinch the nomination even
if she wins the vast majority of the states on Super Tuesday. Unlike the
Republican contest, there is no winner-take-all provision at any stage
in the Democratic primary process.
In multiple appearances onSunday morning television talk shows, Sanders dismissed suggestions that
a poor showing on Super Tuesday would mark an end to his campaign,
declaring that he had many states ahead for potential victories,
including California, the most populous state and the last to hold a
primary on June 7.
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