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Fast Forward MoveOn.Org Gives Bernie Sanders Key Endorsement
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The liberal activist movement MoveOn.org endorsed Bernie Sanders for president, handing the Vermont senator important grassroots support in the early primary states. Nearly 79 percent of 340,665 members casting votes selected Sanders, an Independent, over the other candidates for the Democratic nod, Hillary Rodham Clinton, a former secretary of state who is…
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Fast Forward Gabby Giffords Backs Hillary Clinton — Cites Record on Gun Control
Gabby Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot and wounded in a 2011 shooting rampage, has endorsed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary fight, citing rival Bernie Sanders’s soft record on gun control. Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, said in a statement to CNN that Hillary Clinton is “the candidate for…
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Fast Forward Nate Silver Says Trump More Likely Nominee Than Sanders
Respected statistician Nate Silver said the chance of Jewish Sen. Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination are close to zero. Silver, the Jewish editor of the FiveThirtyEight blog who correctly predicted the election results of all 50 states in 2012, told Adweek on Monday that Hillary Clinton should win the Democratic nomination barring…
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Culture Bernie Sanders Takes a Bite out of Bible With Attack on ‘Usury’
As election season heats up, candidates tend to turn to God, and specifically his favorite book, The Bible. Bernie Sanders put it this way Tuesday on the campaign trail: “In my view, it is unacceptable that Americans are paying a $4 or $5 fee each time they go to the ATM. It is unacceptable that…
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The Schmooze Feel the Bern With This Steamy 2016 Calendar
Do you love keeping track of important life events, democratic socialism and scantily clad, good-looking men? This calendar is for you! Joe Beuerlein is an actor, bartender and a die-hard Bernie Sanders supporter. He loves the Democratic presidential candidate so much that he started an Instagram account in his honor. And not just any Instagram….
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Opinion Is America Getting Ready To Elect Bernie Sanders as President?
When Barry Goldwater, whose father was Jewish, won the GOP presidential nomination in 1964, the irrepressible Southern humorist Harry Golden wrote in his weekly Carolina Israelite: “I always knew the first Jewish president would be an Episcopalian.” Not me. Maybe it’s just my family background, but I always figured a Jewish president wouldn’t be elected…
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News Clinton, Sanders Clash Over Economy, ISIS; Lash GOP’s Trump in Dem Debate
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton backed elements of President Barack Obama’s strategy to fight Islamic State militants in a debate on Saturday in which she clashed with top rival Bernie Sanders over national security and the economy. Clinton came under fire from Republicans even before the debate was over for optimistically saying “we now finally…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Apologizes to Hillary Clinton Over Campaign Data Breach
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders apologized to front-runner Hillary Clinton at a debate on Saturday for a breach of Clinton voter files by a Sanders staffer that intensified tensions between the two camps. The Sanders campaign also suspended two staffers in connection with the breach, a campaign spokesman said after the ABC debate, following…
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