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Wednesday Reads: New York it’s a wonderful town….

Posted: April 20, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: 2016 elections, U.S. Politics | Tags: |24 Comments

IMG_4864Well, it is good news from the Empire State.

Hilary Won!!!!

NYC is a big focus for me today…my daughter is heading there for her school chorus trip. Imagine, riding a bus back and forth…16 hours each way only to spend two days in Manhattan. Exhausting? Hells yeah!

So, here are the links for this afternoon, in quick like fashion.

Hillary has Democratic nomination sewed up – Business Insider

 

Technically, the Democratic presidential contest is not yet over.

But let’s be real. It’s over. Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for president.

It’s not just that Bernie Sanders lost delegate-rich New York by a wide margin Tuesday night. It’s that the margins by which he’d need to win in the remaining contests to overtake Clinton are implausible.

Hillary Clinton

Currently, Clinton has 55% of the pledged delegates and almost 2.7 million more votes than Sanders.

That might not sound like a huge lead, but almost two-thirds of the pledged delegates have already been awarded. So, as Nate Cohn of The New York Times notes, Sanders would need to win the remaining contests by an average of 18 points to overtake Clinton in pledged delegates. So far, he’s only managed that big a margin in two primary states: New Hampshire and Vermont, his home state.

Sanders’ best states tend to be low-population, heavily white states that hold caucuses. The remaining calendar is dominated by diverse, medium-to-large states holding primaries, with 69% of the delegates remaining to be awarded coming from just five states: California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Indiana.

Low-population, heavily white states….what does that leave for Hilary? The states that “distort reality,”

FiveThirtyEight has produced an updated schedule of what Sanders would have to accomplish in the remaining contests to get to a tie in pledged delegates. He’d need to win every remaining state except Maryland and Delaware, and he’d have to win most of them by margins ranging from solid to overwhelming: Pennsylvania by 9, New Jersey by 12, Connecticut by 16, California by 18. None of that is in line with prior results or current polling.

IMG_4866A Homecoming, and a Triumph, for Hillary Clinton in New York – The New York Times

Clinton: ‘Victory is in sight’ – video | US news | The Guardian

Clinton triumphs; Sanders slumps. Now the real contest can begin | Richard Wolffe | Opinion | The Guardian

ike the Monty Python parrot, the Bernie Sanders campaign is no more. It has ceased to be. Its metabolic processes are now history. It’s kicked the bucket and shuffled off its mortal coil.

It has been an ex-campaign since Super Tuesday, when Sanders fell so far behind Clinton in the delegate count that he needed lopsided victories to get back into contention for the convention.

That didn’t happen in New York on Tuesday night. And according to the polls, it won’t happen in any of the big states left: Maryland, Pennsylvania, California and New Jersey.

Clinton will enter the convention with a clear lead among pledged delegates. On that basis, there is no room for Sanders to argue that the superdelegates should ignore the popular vote and the mood of the party to flip their support.

IMG_4880Team Clinton to Sanders: It’s over | TheHill

Trump shifts to more experienced advisers looking to convention | MSNBC

Samantha Bee’s Preview of the New York Primary Was Hilarious – Little Green Footballs

Risk of Sanders attacks on Clinton lingering | MSNBC

Ted Cruz’s Night of Humiliation Continues as He Loses to Ben Carson in New York District

Trump nearly sweeps NY delegates | TheHill

IMG_4867Clinton and Trump wins in New York change little on national scale | US news | The Guardian

Just a few links that are not about the NY Primary….

Payday loans caused 50 percent of borrowers to be hit with overdraft fees: feds

Are super smart octopuses conscious? | Earth | EarthSky

Humans of New York

Humans of New York began as a photography project in 2010. The initial goal was to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers on the street, and create an exhaustive catalogue of the city’s inhabitants. Somewhere along the way, I began to interview my subjects in addition to photographing them. And alongside their portraits, I’d include quotes and short stories from their lives.

Taken together, these portraits and captions became the subject of a vibrant blog. HONY now has over twenty million followers on social media, and provides a worldwide audience with daily glimpses into the lives of strangers on the streets of New York City. Over the past five years, it has also expanded to feature stories from over twenty different countries. The work is also featured in two bestselling books: Humans of New York and Humans of New York: Stories.

 

This is an open thread…

24 Comments on “Wednesday Reads: New York it’s a wonderful town….”

  1. JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    April 20, 2016 at 1:00 pm

    Check it out: Imperial Wizard of Georgia KKK dies after shootout with police

    More details released on man killed in Dooly Co. standoff – WALB.com, South Georgia News, Weather, Sports

  2. JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    April 20, 2016 at 1:04 pm

    Move Over, Andrew Jackson. Harriet Tubman Is Coming to the $20 Bill. – The New York Times

    • NW Luna says:
      April 20, 2016 at 1:46 pm

      Welcome, Ms. Tubman!

      I hope in a few more years (decades?) Jackson will get kicked off completely.

  3. MsMass says:
    April 20, 2016 at 1:29 pm

    Humans of New York- what a great site, fascinating reading about the variety of lives we lead.

  4. purplefinn says:
    April 20, 2016 at 1:34 pm

    Very satisfying post, JJ. I’m feeling very warmly toward New York today. Samantha Bee – great!

    • Enheduanna says:
      April 20, 2016 at 1:43 pm

      Bernie’s anti-Wall Street crusade fell on deaf ears in the city for sure. The rural conservative part of the state doesn’t count – because Bernie said so.

  5. Ron4Hills says:
    April 20, 2016 at 2:02 pm

    Cruz lost a district to Dr Sleepy! Bahahaha!

  6. Fannie says:
    April 20, 2016 at 2:26 pm

    Clinton won 139 delegates (58%)
    Bernie won 106 delegates (42%)

  7. dakinikat says:
    April 20, 2016 at 2:47 pm

    #FeeltheMath

    1. Hillary Clinton defeated Bernie Sanders by 16 points, 58%-42%,

    2. That’s a net of 31 pledged delegates

    3. Those 31 pledged delegates all but erase Sanders’ gains in Idaho (+13), Alaska (+10), and Wisconsin (+10).

    4. Add the superdelegates in, Clinton needs just 29% of remaining delegates to hit 2383!

    5. 2383 is the number of delegates need to become the DEMOCRATIC nominee for President of the United States of America!

    Go Hillary!

  8. janicen says:
    April 20, 2016 at 3:07 pm

    Great post, JJ. Thank you for that Full Frontal link, it was hilarious!

  9. dakinikat says:
    April 20, 2016 at 4:08 pm

    Former DA was a sexual predator:

    http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/15534835-171/former-st-charles-da-harry-morel-was-sexual-predator-who-preyed-on-at-least-20-women-feds-say

  10. NW Luna says:
    April 20, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    And I thought the first stage of the caucuses was bad:

    During the state Democrats’ abominable legislative-district caucuses on Sunday, in which people endured six to 12 hours without food to try to represent for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, a suspicion began to creep in. Maybe the pain was all part of the plan.

    “New Democratic National Committee strategy to rig delegate count: Be disorganized, waste time,” one disgruntled Sanders supporter wrote on Twitter. “… Kill their joy. Tire them. Starve them.” Wrote another: “How is it democratic to ask working people, veterans, and parents to spend 12 hours at a caucus site? Nonsense.”

    The wild suspicion that state Democrats are using a gantlet of medieval rules to break the wills of Bernie Sanders’ idealistic fans and fix the election for Clinton is just that — a wild suspicion. I bet when the results of Sunday’s debacle are released, due sometime this week, Sanders will still have more than 70 percent of this state’s pledged delegates, exactly as the initial caucus voting in March suggested he should. But that said, the system is medieval. It is undemocratic. It’s dawning even on some party insiders that if the system doesn’t change how it picks presidents, then the system’s maybe going down.

    Derek Young is a Pierce County councilman and a Democrat. On Sunday, he was the chairman of the 26th Legislative District’s caucuses at Gig Harbor High School. Due to poor organization, archaic processes and a litany of technical issues, it took more than six hours to pick a few dozen delegates. “It was a complete disaster,” Young admits. “I saw disabled people leaving because they couldn’t endure it anymore, young mothers leaving early with their kids. Because of this caucus absurdity, the least-democratic party is the Democratic Party. It’s a disgrace.” ….

    Obviously the caucus system is an extreme anti-democratic relic. It’s got to go. Last month it disenfranchised on the order of a million Washington state voters, as compared to a vote-by-mail primary. It’s well past time for Democrats here to embrace the primary.

    Grrr. People have disliked the caucus system ever since it started, and just now they’re paying attention because the Berniebrats are whining? What’s funny is that if our state had a primary instead of a caucus, Bernie’s numbers wouldn’t look so good.

    • janicen says:
      April 20, 2016 at 10:21 pm

      Whatever the reason, they have to get rid of this process. It’s horrible.

    • bostonboomer says:
      April 21, 2016 at 8:12 am

      I don’t think the DNC runs state caucuses. But the entire process is idiotic. Without caucuses, Bernie would have been gone by now.

  11. NW Luna says:
    April 20, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    Southern Democrats to Bernie: Eff you!

    http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/bernie-sanders-south-black-voters-222220

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