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Millennials Favor Hillary Clinton in Harvard Poll

A survey by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics shows that 55 percent of all young adults, ages 18 to 29, would rather see a Democrat maintain control of the White House after the next presidential election.

Couple things to note about the survey. First,……..even young people think Ted Cruz sucks (5%).

Among potential Republican primary voters (definite, probable or 50-50; n=486), not one of 16 prospective Republican presidential candidates garnered more than ten percent of the vote. In a hypothetical match-up, Ben Carson captured ten percent, closely followed by Rand Paul (8%), Jeb Bush (7%), Mike Huckabee (7%), Scott Walker (5%), Sarah Palin (5%), Ted Cruz (5%), Chris Christie (4%), Rick Perry (3%), Rick Santorum (3%), Marco Rubio (2%), Carli Fiorina (2%), Bobby Jindal (1%), George Pataki (1%), Mike Pence (0%) and Lindsay Graham (0%)

Second,……..they believe (well at least 55%)………

Three-in-Four 18- to 29- Year-Olds Believe that Global Warming is a Fact. 55% of 18- to 29- year-olds surveyed in the IOP’s spring poll blame global warming’s cause on emissions “from cars and industry facilities,” with another 20% blaming the cause on “natural changes” in the environment – totaling 75% of young Americans who believe global warming is a “proven fact.” By contrast, 23% said global warming is a “theory that has not yet been proven.”

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A North Carolina poll (Elon University Poll) came out a few days ago, between two people. You teabaggers will be voting for the loser, Bush.

47% of registered voters said they would vote for Clinton compared to 44% for Bush.

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And a North Carolina poll released today.

Benghazi

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A policy speech from Mrs. Clinton,…….

Hillary Clinton: America must confront 'hard truths about race and justice'

Clinton says patterns of violence against black men are ‘unmistakable and undeniable’ and calls for police officers across the country to wear body cameras

Hillary Clinton called for a radical overhaul of the US criminal justice system in a speech Wednesday morning, declaring a culture of racial injustice and admitting: “We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.”

In a stirring speech at a policy forum in New York, Clinton called on police to ensure that “every department … has body cameras to record interactions between police officers and suspects.” She added a call for the de-militarization of police forces, and the elimination of “weapons of war on our streets.”

“From Ferguson to Staten Island to Baltimore, the patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable,” Clinton said. “Walter Scott shot in the back in Charleston, South Carolina … Tamir Rice, shot in a park in Cleveland, Ohio … Eric Garner, choked to death after being stopped for selling cigarettes.”

In what represented the first major policy address of her 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton said the death of Freddie Gray earlier this month after he suffered a nearly-severed spine in police custody, and the ensuing street clashes in Baltimore, “does tear at our soul.”

Clinton was appearing at a policy event named for New York City’s first African American mayor. David Dinkins received a standing ovation upon entering the hall, minutes before Clinton was to begin.

“My heart breaks for these young men and their families,” Clinton said of the victims of police brutality. “We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America. There is something profoundly wrong when African-American men are far more likely” to be stopped, searched and to receive long prison sentences, she said.

“We have allowed our criminal justice system to get out of balance and these recent tragedies should galvanize us as a nation to find our balance again.”

She also urged people in Baltimore to protest peacefully. “The violence has to stop,” Clinton said, “but let’s remember that everyone in the community benefits where everyone has respect for the law – and everyone is respected by the law.”

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In her address Wednesday, Clinton said “we need to chart a course” on imprisonment, noting that the United States has 5% of the total global population yet 25% of its prison population.

“It’s time to change our approach,” Clinton said. “It’s time to change the era of mass incarceration. .. We don’t want to create another incarceration generation.”

Clinton said low-level offenders imprisoned for parole violations or drug possession should not be held.

“Of the more than two million Americans incarcerated today, a significant percentage are low-level offenders. … Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families and communities,” Clinton said.

“When we talk about one-and-a-half million African-American men, we’re talking about missing husbands, missing fathers, missing brothers – they’re not there to bring home a paycheck, and the consequences are profound.”

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In New York, Clinton called for the implementation of the taskforce recommendations, including body cameras on police officers, and said in some cases “we should go even further.”

But legislation to pay for body cameras and other equipment appears to be stalled in both chambers of Congress, where staffers say committees have scheduled no hearings on the topic.

Clinton included a reference to Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old killed by a vigilante in Florida in February 2012 after he had gone to the store to buy candy. Clinton diagnosed one symptom of societal breakdown as “mother and fathers who fear for their children’s safety when they go off to school, or just when they go off to buy a pack of Skittles.”

Clinton concluded her speech with a call to pray “for the family of Freddie Gray and all the men whose names we know and those we don’t, who have lost their lives unnecessarily and tragically. And include in that prayer the people of Baltimore and our beloved country.”