Hillary Clinton Fights To Change Perception

Equally concerning for Clinton as she grapples with her double-digit loss to Sanders in New Hampshire: Voters who wanted a presidential candidate who cares about people like them sided overwhelmingly with the Vermont senator, an empathy gap that has proved devastating for previous presidential candidates.

He said Sanders sent a symbolic message following his “landslide victory” in New Hampshire by choosing to meet with Sharpton the morning after in Harlem.

The numbers are staggering, and not just because Clinton — widely expected to be the first woman to win the presidential nomination of a major political party — lost New Hampshire women to a 74-year-old grandfather.

Rutherford, who was joined on the call by Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and the president of the NAACP’s New York State Conference, Hazel Dukes, said that Sanders has only just started to address the issues closest to the African American community, including criminal justice reform and the racial disparities in the American healthcare system.

He was more complimentary of the Republican field after winning in New Hampshire. Clinton’s more pragmatic ideas and complicated public history are a tough sell. Okay. But he also beat her among moderates and conservatives by a almost identical 60-37 margin. It also underscores the problem with what Clinton represents: In a year that voters are craving authenticity and a break from the political norm above all else, her almost three decades in the political limelight is a liability. “We know her life has been about equity for women and feminism”.

The Clinton campaign has faced a lot of criticism for this remark.

Those comments were roundly criticized, prompting an apology from Steinem. “I absolutely still respect her very much”.

Sanders, who bested Clinton among women and young voters, turned his attention to cultivating another crucial component of the Democratic coalition that helped Obama twice win the White House. According to exit polls, women made up 55 percent of the New Hampshire electorate – and they favored Sanders by 11 points.

In fact the ultimate “firewall” may be neither but “superdelegates” who are “party officials who are free to commit to whomever they like, regardless of how their state votes”, as the Daily Caller pointed out today.

I believe so strongly that we have to keep up with every fiber of our being the argument for, the campaign for human rights. “And we don’t see Hillary as trustworthy”. Clinton won among women in Iowa, but her challenges with young voters stretch across both states.

But the generational divide among young women over Clinton’s candidacy appears more entrenched than it was at this point in 2008. “Immigrant families shouldn’t have to lie awake at night listening for a knock on the door”, Clinton said in her Tuesday evening concession speech.

“I think that she’s inherited all the work that has been done before on her behalf here… many of those people who were precinct captains for her continue to be”, Reid told the Herald yesterday.