Hillary Clinton Will Finish Third In Iowa, Behind Bernie Sanders and O'Malley. Here's Why

The Huffington Post Huffpost Politics The Blog ^ | December 4, 2015 | H. A. Goodman

[2ndDivisionVet]

There's a reason Hillary Clinton finished third in the 2008 Iowa Caucus, behind Barack Obama and John Edwards. In addition to her costly vote supporting the war in Iraq, Clinton has always pleaded "guilty" to being a moderate. It's this centrism (even when progressive values are now popular throughout the nation) that fuels questions about why she opposed gay marriage or as The Huffington Post writes, accepted "$133,246 to the Ready for Hillary PAC" from major prison lobbyists.

The Iowa Caucus was once labeled as part of the Democratic Party's "extremes" by Hillary Clinton in a recently disclosed State Department email. However, there's nothing extreme about championing progressive values, even when they're not popular. Bernie Sanders has a history defending progressive principles, while Clinton has consistently veered to the right on war, foreign policy, trade, and even marijuana legislation.

There's also nothing extreme about opposing Keystone XL, but Clinton once supported the pipeline. NBC News writes "she helped lay the foundation for it as secretary of state." As quoted in The Nation, Clinton was once "inclined" to approve Keystone and even stated, "We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada."(continued)

[Bubba_Leroy]

Other than a few committed lesbian feminists, is there anyone that really wants Hillary to be President?

Most Democrats that I know say they are going to vote for her because she is going to be the Democrat nominee, not because they want her to be the Democrat nominee.

[bob_esb]

middle aged women in big cities. Don’t understand how they side with HRC

[SunkenCiv]

December thus far for Hillary / Bernie / NRA topics:

• Poll: Hillary Clinton Leads in 2016 Match-Ups as Ben Carson, Marco Rubio Run Closest
• NRA HITS BACK HARD- NEW NRA AD ON HOW TO STOP VIOLENT GUN CRIMES
• Poll of Latino voters: Head to head, Hillary leads Rubio by 19 points -- and Trump by 42
• Sanders tops Clinton ... as Time's Person of the Year
• Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley to 'Disrupt' ISIS
• Sanders unveils plan to address climate change
• Future victims of NJ Where is the NRA?
• Clinton to take aim at corporate inversions with 'exit tax' plan: AP
• Weak President Obama versus evil ISIS and vile NRA
• Clinton explains why she won't say 'radical Islam'
• Clinton says term 'radical Islam' an injustice to vast majority of Muslims
• Bernie Sanders's Soviet Honeymoon [Back in the USSR]
• Real Reason For Tonights Speech?,Maybe Obama Sees Internal Polling Bad For Hillary?
• CBS: Face the Nation: 12/06: Trump, Sanders, Christie (full video of show)
• George Stephanopoulos asked Hillary Clinton to explain why Donald Trump is doing so well
• Unbelievable: Hillary says Jerry Falwell Jr. is committing TREASON for anti-Muslim speech!
• NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: TERROR VICTIM AS BAD AS KILLER FOR BEING PRO-NRA
• SCANDAL! Hillary Says 'Nuclear Option' for Iran, News Media 'corrects' to 'Military Option'
• Stephanopoulos Confronts Clinton On Benghazi: 'I Answered All Of These Questions'
• Hillary: I Didn't Lie to Benghazi Families -- It Was 'The Fog Of War'
• How the 'New York Times' and Loretta Lynch Made Me Join the NRA
• Top Jeb Bush political donor in Miami: I'll vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump
• The left's absurd Hillary hate: Why this ridiculous anti-Clinton crusade needs to stop
• VIDEO: UC biology prof. tells class NRA to blame for San Bernardino shooting
• The Andrea Shea King Show -- Robert Morrow, The Clintons' War On Women
• Cruz vs. Rubio and Clinton
• Who Can Beat Hillary?
• What Evidence are you Talking About Hillary ?
• Will Janet Yellen Sabotage Hillary Clinton?
• The NRA just sent Obama a brutal warning he'll never forget *video*
• Cruz Claim that Majority of Criminals Are Democrats Enrages Left [semi-satire]
• Top Jeb Bush political donor in Miami: I'll vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump
• The Obama administration, not the NRA, sells guns to terrorists
• Top Jeb Bush political donor in Miami: I'll vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump
• Warren Buffett Said to Join Tony James for Clinton Fundraiser
• FR EXCLUSIVE: Diary of a New Hampshire Voter..... (Katherine Prudhomme O'Brien and Hillary)
• Republican Consultant Accuses Me of Secretly Wanting Hillary to Win
• Nevada Democratic House candidate John Oceguera renouncing NRA membership after mass shooting
• Can Someone Make Ad w/ Obama saying his lies/Hillary nodding head behind him?
• NY Daily News compares NRA official to mass shooting 'terrorists' for enabling 'sick gun jihad'
• Sanders supporters eat hot peppers to feel the Bern
• Hate Rhetoric: New York Daily News Labels NRA's Executive Wayne LaPierre a 'Terrorist'
• The only way Hillary can be certain that Bill did not commit rape
• Reid calls NRA 'quasi-militant wing' of Republican Party
• Jeb Bush says he would 'whup' Hillary Clinton
• Hillary Clinton asked about Paula Jones
• Clinton confidence grows with national security at forefront [will "tout her tenure"]
• Hillary Clinton: "No Matter What Motivation" Shooters Had,We Need More Gun Control
• Clinton, Inc.: Please Say NO!
• Clinton sings praises of role model female pop stars (Lady Gaga, Demi Lovato, Missy Elliott)
• The reason Democrats look stupid for blaming the NRA for mass shootings
• GOProud co-founder backs Hillary Clinton for president
• Clinton makes gun control a defining cause
• Gun Control Talk = Upgrade NRA Membership? (vanity)
• Media pollster bias? Hillary e-mails reveal "Congratulations!!!" from NBC/WSJ pollster
• MSNBC: Mass Shootings, Revolution, Gun Owners, NRA, All the Same
• Woman Asks Hillary: If All Alleged Rape Victims Should Be Believed,
• Trump Still Leads in NH but Christie Rising; Clinton/Sanders Closely Matched
• Hillary attacks Ted Cruz with 'a totally indefensible straight up lie'
• Trump Still Leads in NH but Christie Rising; Clinton/Sanders Closely Matched
• Hillary Supporters Endorse SHARIA LAW in AMERICA!
• Here's Why the Media Stopped Reporting on Clinton's New Emails
• Clinton Emails: It Looks Like She Was An Architect Of The Benghazi Lie
• Hillary Clinton Calls For More Gun Control Before San Bernardino Attackers Apprehended
• Trump: Hillary Clinton Shouldn't Be Allowed To Run For President
• Sandy Burgler, ex-Clinton national security adviser, dies
• Wait, does Bill Clinton now oppose late-term abortion?
• I Finally Saw A Hillary Clinton Nutcracker
• Hillary is candidate 'most likely to cut you off in traffic' (survey)
• Hillary Clinton is everything democrats said they didn't like about Mitt Romney
• Bernie supporters could blow this election: Why refusing to vote for Hillary Clinton will...
• Hillary in the White House Video (ROTHFLMAO Alert)
• Sandy Berger, Former National Cecurity Adviser, Dies (Clinton Crony, aka Sandy Burglar)
• New emails cast doubt on Rice and Clinton's Benghazi story
• Senators probe possible leaks in Clinton email review
• Hillary Clinton's likability problem [I'm not making this up]
• Cruz: Obama And Clinton "Have No Intention Of Even Trying" To Defeat Islamic State
• New Hillary Ad: '44 Boys Is Too Many' in White House
• Hillary Clinton's $275 Billion 'Shovel Ready' Sequel Is Based On Two Big Lies
• Trump Takes Questions in NH, Slams Bernie
• Hillary Clinton Blasts Ted Cruz For Revising History To Hide His Real Record
• Concussion News: Big Ben and Hillary
• As Hillary Runs, Marine Will Be Ousted for Emailing Classified Documents
• Hillary Clinton Calls for Overhaul of Justice System
• New release of Hillary e-mails: 7800 pages, 328 classified -- 999 total
• Should Obama and Hillary be disqualified from office for being on a "Terror watch list"?
• Bernie Sanders exposé video -- "hardcore communist"
• FBI chief is wild card for Clinton
• Clinton in 2008: Convicted Silver 'A Stalwart Voice on Behalf of New Yorkers'
• Ted Cruz's Truth Bomb About Criminals Has Liberals ENRAGED
• Obama will Self-Destruct if he brings axe down on Hillary's Campaign
• 'Callous' doesn't BEGIN to describe Hillary's response in email about 6 dead soldiers
• Hillary: Six Dead Soldiers You Say? Who Cares? I Gotta Shop!
• CRUZ VIDEO: "Attacking Hillary on "Condom Police"
• Nearly 1,000 Clinton emails had classified info

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. HuffPo Bloviator writes:

There's a reason Hillary Clinton finished third in the 2008 Iowa Caucus, behind Barack Obama and John Edwards. In addition to her costly vote supporting the war in Iraq, Clinton has always pleaded "guilty" to being a moderate. It's this centrism (even when progressive values are now popular throughout the nation) that fuels questions about why she opposed gay marriage or... accepted "$133,246 to the Ready for Hillary PAC" from major prison lobbyists. The Iowa Caucus was once labeled as part of the Democratic Party's "extremes" by Hillary Clinton in a recently disclosed State Department email. However, there's nothing extreme about championing progressive values, even when they're not popular.

By "progressive" is meant "anti-American radical".

[Bubba_Leroy]

I sure don’t see crowds of minorities and college kids lining up for the chance to vote for Hillary like they did for Obamanation.

On the other hand, whether the Republican candidate is Trump or Cruz, I do expect crowds of voters to line up for the chance to vote against Hillary.

If the Republican candidate is Bush, then I predict an historic low voter turnout.

[Zeppo]

It's this centrism (even when progressive values are now popular throughout the nation)

I remember clearly the time, just a few short years ago, when the Huffington Post informed their readers that "progressive values" are not at all popular throughout the nation.

Oh, wait a minute, no I don't...

[ETL]

Bernie Sanders: Climate Change is Directly Related To Terrorism

by Michelle Fields
Nov 14, 2015

"In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism," said Sanders.

"And if we do not get our act together and listen to what the scientists say, you're going to see counties all over the world...they're going to be struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops, and you're going to see all kinds of international conflict."

Sanders said at the second Democratic debate in Iowa that climate change poses the biggest threat to America's national security and to security of the world. ..."

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/14/bernie-sanders-climate-change-directly-related-terrorism/

[Seruzawa]

If you check out this article on the HuffPost you’ll see that the loonie left is all in for Bernie. They correctly see Hitlery as a Wall St/Big Bank tool. Too bad their “solution” is always more wackoism.

I know a fair number of liberals and only maybe one or two of them are happy with Hitlery. The Rats are in far worse trouble than you would guess from watching the MSM.

[FerociousRabbit]

The rabid communist leftists at Dummie Underground refuse to vote for her. They have harder hitting comments about her than you will even find here. Of course, they also think that Bernie Sanders will actually win but that is not the point.

The point is that Hitlery will NOT energize the lefty base. She will NOT turn out the black vote. She will NOT turn out the last of the blue color conservative dummycrats (think coal miners and Teamsters).

What is left? Not much. A handful of butch dykes will not win an election.

Keep a careful eye on Dummycrat turnout during the primaries. I predict it will non-existent whereas the Republicans will turn out in much higher numbers. We actually have a choice of candidates and some are even conservatives this time!

[pepsi_junkie]

middle aged women in big cities. Don’t understand how they side with HRC

Eight years ago they were young women who likely supported Obama because he was black. Having learned nothing from the eight year disaster that "feel good" affirmative action politics gave us, they are poised to do it again.

[Bon mots]

[x]

Bernie, maybe, but Marty?

Mike O'Malley has a better chance of being the nominee than Littlefinger.