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Things may indeed be heating up in the Democrat presidential race where, according to Kate Linthicum @latimes.com: “Polls show Sanders in a statistical tie with Clinton in California. 

Ms Linthicum, however, suggests that even a huge turn of events like that might not be enough because: “[A] win in the state would be only the beginning of a battle for the nomination at the Democratic National Convention this summer. Sanders trails Clinton in pledged delegates as well as superdelegates who have promised to back Clinton. He would need to convince large numbers of them that he is better suited than Clinton to take on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in the November presidential election.”

And in the last sentence of Ms Linthicum’s analysis, she may have unintentionally touched on the major reason for Sanders now having a very strong argument in his favor. Because with his unequivocally anti-business socialist track record proven over the past forty years, Sanders, can challenge Trump’s business tactics while Bill Clinton’s wife cannot.     

 

The reason for Bill’s wife’s dilemma in attacking Trump’s behavior in business is that she’s involved in far worse things than he ever has. Just this past Tuesday, Chris Stirewalt @FoxNews.com, posted an article from Daily Caller stating: “A little known Swedish-Canadian oil and mining conglomerate human rights groups have repeatedly charged produces “blood minerals” is among the Clinton Foundation’s biggest donors, thanks to a $100 million pledge in 2007, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found. ‘Blood minerals’ are related to ‘blood diamonds,’ which are allegedly mined in war zones or sold as commodities to help finance political insurgencies or despotic warlords. When the Vancouver, Canada-based Lundin Group gave its $100 million commitment to the ‘Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative,’ the company had long been cutting deals with warlords, Marxist rebels, military strongmen and dictatorships in the war-torn African countries of Congo, Sudan and Ethiopia.”

And while the preceding item is only one among myriad examples of shady Clinton practices, supporter Elizabeth Warren can now be added to the list of two-faced Democrats.

According to Rush on Thursday, May 26: “Elizabeth Warren is a huge hypocrite when it comes to the housing bubble and the subprime mortgage crisis.  This is a story from 2012, June the 2nd:  "When she's not looking out for the little guy being taken advantage of by predatory lenders, Elizabeth Warren is making high-interest, short-term loans to family members and flipping homes for a profit. 

"That's the revelation in a story published today by the Boston Herald, which identifies nine instances when Warren made a quick profit either buying and reselling homes or loaning money to family members to flip homes in the late '90s. For instance, in 1993 [Pocahontas] purchased a foreclosed home in Oklahoma City for $61,000. She resold the home 18 months later for $95,000. In several more cases, [Pocahontas] provided loans so that her brother could buy homes and flip them. In 2000, she reportedly gave her brother a loan with 9.5% interest so he could buy a home for $35,000. He sold the home three months later for a 10% profit.   

"Flipping homes was a profitable investment for the Warren family, which made as much as 383% on a five-month transaction. The average gain [in the Warren home-flipper family] seems to have been closer to 40%. There was nothing illegal about the practice, but it was singled out by progressives connected to the Obama administration as one of the irresponsible practices that led directly to the financial crisis," and therein lies the route to my next point.  Here you have Elizabeth Warren engaging in the home flipping by buying low, selling high, taking advantage of it.”

So, here we have continuing evidence that suspicion rests among individuals at the top of the Democrat party. And in that regard, Sanders may be loony as a jaybird fostering completely irrational political theory's, but it's highly doubtful that he's a double-dealing selfish fabricator or a crook. 

And then, a friend sent this one:

Bringing  us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife.

Ken Goldstein, professor of politics at the University of San Francisco and Bloomberg Politics’ polling and political advertising analyst, titled his column yesterday: “Why Recent National Polls Should Worry Hillary Clinton” 

According to Mr. Goldstein, “In the last week, a slew of national polls looking at a general-election matchup between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been released. Despite varying sample sizes and methodologies, the results were strikingly consistent. In aggregate, according to the RealClearPolitics average, they show Trump narrowing Clinton’s lead to a single percentage point.” 

Even worse for Bill’s wife, is the virtually incredible speed at which this has happened. “Overall, comparing the two most recent ABC/Post polls on the likely matchup between Trump and Clinton, Trump moved from a 9-point deficit in March to a 2-point advantage in May. Similarly, he closed his gap with Clinton by 8 points in the most recent NBC/Journal poll. 

“In the ABC/Post poll, among Republicans, Clinton does 6 points worse in the new poll than the last poll and Trump does 10 points better. This yields a net 16-point improvement among Republicans for Trump on the difference between the two candidates. That improvement for Trump’s margin over Clinton is 22 percentage points among independents. (In the March ABC/Post poll, Clinton led Trump by 9 points and in the most recent study, she trails him by 13.) 

In the last example above, a key indicator to Bill’s wife’s problems rests in the swing among independents. Because they rest in the gap between the steadfast voters in both of the major party’s, each of which equate to roughly 40% of the total. Therefore, if Trump is able to maintain a significant segment of this bloc, he’s almost certain to wind up as POTUS in November. 

Raising the ongoing question once more: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?   

That’s it for today folks.      

Adios