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Obama’s Approval Rating Hits Almost Three-Year High
The Gist: President Barack Obama’s job approval has hit an almost three-year high among Americans, according to numbers released by Gallup.
Why Sanders Could Repeat His Big Michigan Upset In Ohio
The Gist: The perils of public primary polling aside, Sanders’ Michigan win suggests it’s too soon to write the Democratic socialist and his message of political revolution off. Next Tuesday’s Ohio primary will be the next major test for him to prove he has broadened his appeal and there, his attacks on her stance on trade deals may prove equally effective as they were in Michigan.
Clinton: Indictment Over Private Email Server Is ‘Not Going To Happen’
The Gist: Hillary Clinton brushed off the question of whether she would drop out of the presidential race if she were indicted in connection with the ongoing investigation into her private email server as she was pressed repeatedly by Univision debate moderator Jorge Ramos.
From The Reporter’s Notebook
Bernie Sanders is looking to capitalize on his victory over Hillary Clinton in the Michigan primary as another day of multi-state voting looms, TPM’s Cailtin Cruz reported. While his campaign has rallied a base of young people and white voters, it isn’t connecting with minority voters as well as Clinton has. But he’s sticking to the idea that people will come around to him—eventually. “I think you’re going to see some of them rethinking their commitment to Secretary Clinton,” he told MSNBC on Thursday.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “One big takeaway for me from Wednesday’s debate was that there was relatively little between the two candidates which went to the real essence of this contest – an establishment politician with a long history of pushing for incremental change within the system and an outsider who talks about transforming the country in line with left-liberal values but would be deeply challenged to bring about that change in a country closely divided on partisan lines. That’s the real issue between these two candidates. The policy disagreements all stem from that basic division. But that essential contrast mostly felt submerged in a kind of cheap, shotty back and forth about specific points of policy or gotchas tied to things that happened 3 or 10 or 30 years ago.”
Say What?!
“It ain’t because of the raw milk. With that many people around and that close quarters and in that air and environment, I just call it a big germ. All that Capitol is is a big germ.”
– A group of West Virginia lawmakers got sick after drinking raw milk, but the delegate who distributed it insists it wasn’t the milk’s fault.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I see several topics that touch on this topic but would be interested to hear thoughts on GOP establishment abandoning the party and creating a new third party. At this time I cannot image the remaining adults doing what desperately needs doing. That would be wholesale abandonment of the Republican Party and starting a new party with a new platform that is inclusive, moderate and better incorporates the needs of twenty first century America. Properly promoted and with demonstrated integrity it might even attract people like me who have left the party in disgust in greater numbers since 2000. It would take more than a few election cycles to demonstrate credibility but if and when successful it could also lead to a much needed overhaul of the Democratic party. This new third party would have to work with the existing Democratic party to squelch the cancer that is the current GOTP, Fox News and the bat shit crazy punditry of the far right. I wonder if this is even possible. It would take a whole lot of effort and would mean giving up ground and starting at ground zero with few political rewards for a few election cycles.”
Related: A TPM series on the future of the GOP.
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