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  1. Yes, they really are one messed up bunch. Let’s hope a terrorist didn’t start that fire.

    Meanwhile, speaking of debates (and a functioning democracy), the DNC has been thoughtful enough to schedule one of it’s very few Presidential debates tomorrow night, Saturday, Dec. 19th at 7:00pm, hosted by ABC News.

    The DNC has been busy in sabotaging the Bernie Sanders campaign, scheduling the debate at a time that would likely discourage viewership, with people likely away Christmas shopping or catching the opening of the new Star Wars movie.

    Not to outdo itself, the DNC decided to punish the Sanders campaign by taking access away from their own voter data that they’ve been busy collecting. This would be data collected at things like campaign events, for instance, on Nov. 23rd at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre (something I spoke of in a previous blog response, but was removed from a YouTube site — here it is at another site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ITKheQsrOk ). That event was particularly important as the Clinton campaign is placing special emphasis on capturing the vote of southern non-white voters, designed to build a “southern firewall” from political opponents leading up to the caucuses and primaries. The Huffington Post had an interesting article on the strategy in September: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-nonwhite-voters_55fae616e4b0fde8b0cd427f

    A study recently released (see http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12/11/abc-world-news-tonight-has-devoted-less-than-on/207428) explains that ABC News, who will host tomorrow’s debate and provide it’s questioners, provided the least exposure to the Sanders campaign. While devoting some 81 minutes of time to the Trump campaign through the end of November, the Sanders campaign has received a miniscule 20 seconds of coverage air time.

    The DNC database action today comes just a few weeks before the first Democratic caucuses, while yesterday Sanders received the enorsement of the 700,000-member Communication Workers of America, as well as the Democracy for America organization.

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