It just occurs to me that, regardless of policies, it would be tremendously boring to have yet another straight white male president.

I've been under the impression for some time that Sanders supporters produce more negative material about Hillary Clinton than vice versa. In an attempt to quantify this, I looked at the first 100 posts in the Bernie Sanders for President 2016 community and the first 100 posts in the Hillary Clinton for President 2016 community, and counted the negative posts about the competitor.

I've been under the impression for some time that Sanders supporters produce more negative material about Hillary Clinton than vice versa.  In an attempt to quantify this, I looked at the first 100 posts in the  Bernie Sanders for President 2016 community and the first 100 posts in the Hillary Clinton for President 2016 community, and counted the negative posts about the competitor.

The Sanders group had 13 posts that cast Clinton in a definite negative light; the Clinton group had 4 posts that cast Sanders in a negative light.  In general, the Clinton group seldom mentioned Sanders, and mostly posts positive messages about their candidate -- new endorsements and so on.  The Sanders group, in contrast, had, in addition to negative posts about Clinton,  negative posts about the "establishment", the "mainstream press", and "political conspiracies against Sanders".  Posts mentioning Clinton, in general, are much more common in the Sanders group than posts mentioning Sanders in the Clinton group.

There is nothing scientific about this -- the posts in both groups change frequently, and I was just using my own interpretation of what was negative.  The relative mentions of the competing candidate are pretty objective, though.

Originally shared by Betsy McCall

Originally shared by Betsy McCall
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/new-science-tells-us-men-politics-are-blowhards

Originally shared by Pierre Markuse

Originally shared by Pierre Markuse

Perspective view in Noctis Labyrinthus

In this image taken on 15 July 2015 by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA's Mars Express you can see a perspective view in Noctis Labyrinthus on Mars. Visible are details of landslides in the steep-sided walls of the flat-topped graben (https://goo.gl/Rma96b) in the foreground, and in the valley walls in the background. Image resolution is about 16 meters per pixel.

Read more on Noctis Labyrinthus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctis_Labyrinthus
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/01/Perspective_view_in_Noctis_Labyrinthus

More on the Mars Express orbiter and the High Resolution Stereo Camera:
http://sci.esa.int/mars-express/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Express
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Resolution_Stereo_Camera

Image credit: Title Perspective view in Noctis Labyrinthus ESA/DLR/FU Berlin http://goo.gl/AN7tsu CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO https://goo.gl/YgMSmb

#science  #mars #marsexpress #esa  #NoctisLabyrinthus #hrsc #space   #spacetechnology   #spaceexploration

Originally shared by Kris Nelson

Originally shared by Kris Nelson

This is an xcellent article...



https://medium.com/@MichaelSLinden/the-four-policy-reasons-why-i-support-hillary-clinton-in-the-democratic-primary-71a3a7a0f3a7#.48wq7gujg

Fascinating to see the top donors by industry to the various candidates.

Fascinating to see the top donors by industry to the various candidates.

Jeb Bush:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/indus.php?cycle=2016&id=N00037006&type=f
1 Securities & Investment $32,044,014
2 Real Estate $9,907,167
3 Oil & Gas $9,864,210
4 Retired $8,807,205
5 Misc Finance $6,346,820

Hillary Clinton:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/indus.php?cycle=2016&id=N00000019&type=f
1 Retired $7,658,300
2 Lawyers/Law Firms $7,290,958
3 TV/Movies/Music $6,557,750
4 Securities & Investment $5,591,095
5 Non-Profit Institutions $3,475,080

Ted Cruz:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/indus.php?cycle=2016&id=N00033085&type=f
1 Real Estate $25,742,655
2 Retired $3,117,865
3 Securities & Investment $761,305
4 Oil & Gas $709,493
5 Lawyers/Law Firms $650,659

Bernie Sanders:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/indus.php?cycle=2016&id=N00000528&type=f
1 Retired $870,161
2 Education $404,375
3 Health Professionals $232,564
4 Lawyers/Law Firms $230,233
5 Misc Business $213,778

Donald Trump:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/indus.php?cycle=2016&id=N00023864&type=f
1 Retired $259,989
2 Health Professionals $45,942
3 Misc Business $38,153
4 Real Estate $28,814
5 Misc Finance $16,972

Wonderful picture.

Wonderful picture.

Originally shared by Diane Raucher (broderick)
http://bluenationreview.com/bernie-is-the-establishment-hillary-and-planned-parenthood-are-the-anti-establishment/