Correct The Record Monday August 25, 2014 Afternoon Roundup

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*[image: Inline image 1]* *Correct The Record Monday August 25, 2014 Afternoon Roundup:* *Headlines:* *Boston Globe: Poll: Mass. Democrats would back Clinton over Warren <http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/08/25/mass-democrats-would-back-hillary-clinton-over-elizabeth-warren/ovPP3acnx3hxRTVFz9D4uK/story.html>* “More than three times as many Massachusetts Democrats would vote for Hillary Clinton if she ran for president in 2016 than would back the state’s senior senator, Elizabeth Warren, according to a poll released Monday by Suffolk University and The Boston Herald.” *National Review: No, Hillary Doesn’t Need to Speak About Ferguson <http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/386211/no-hillary-doesnt-need-speak-about-ferguson-charles-c-w-cooke>* “If Hillary Clinton wishes to pronounce upon the topic, I’m sure she will. If she doesn’t, then she doesn’t have to. Either way, there’s no particular reason we need to hear her take. She’s not an elected official.” *The Courier-Journal: Rand Paul labels Hillary Clinton a "war hawk" <http://www.courier-journal.com/story/politics-blog/2014/08/25/rand-paul-calls-hillary-clinton-a-war-hawk-on-meet-the-press/14564239/>* “’Senator Paul's foreign policy vision is to retreat from our responsibilities abroad by ending all foreign aid to our allies – including Israel,’ charged DNC spokesman Michael Czin.” *CBS News: Few Americans identify as libertarian, survey finds <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/few-americans-identify-as-libertarian-survey-finds/>* “Paul over the weekend said derisively, 'Let the Democrats put forward a war hawk like Hillary Clinton.' However, Pew found that as many as 43 percent of self-described libertarians think "it is best for the future of our country to be active in world affairs.” *Esquire blog: Things In Politico That Make Me Want To Guzzle Antifreeze, Part The Infinity <http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Ghosts_Of_Bill_Clinton_Past>* “Josh Gerstein, his prose shadowy and performed in the minor key of innuendo and scandal, has a long piece about the "secret files" stashed at the Clinton library down in darkest Arkansas, and if you find the general theme of the piece familiar, you are not alone.” *Mediaite: Sarah Palin Finally Does ‘That Ice Bucket Water Dump Thing’ <http://www.mediaite.com/online/sarah-palin-finally-does-that-ice-bucket-water-dump-thing/>* “As for who Palin nominated, she chose former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and “he whom she recently said is her favorite Republican” (burn), John McCain.” *Washington Post: Warren draft group continues ‘full steam ahead,’ despite senator’s complaint <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/08/25/warren-draft-group-continues-full-steam-ahead-despite-senators-complaint/>* “Well, Ready for Warren remains undeterred, despite Warren’s pretty clear and public disavowal. Erica Sagrans, campaign manager for Ready for Warren, says the Massachusetts is still their choice, and they will still carry on, with all sorts of activities, including house parties.” *The Hill: Bernie Sanders headed to Iowa <http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/215890-bernie-sanders-headed-to-iowa>* “Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, is planning a trip to Iowa next month at the same time Hillary Clinton will be stumping in the battleground state.” *CNN Money: Hillary Clinton Voted "Most Likely to be President" While Joe Biden Voted "Class Clown" by Americans <http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NY96713.htm>* • Most Likely to Succeed: Hillary Clinton (15%) and Chris Christie/Rand Paul/Elizabeth Warren (7%) • Most Likely to be President: Hillary Clinton (34%) and Chris Christie/Marco Rubio (6%) • Most Popular: Hillary Clinton (13%) and Chris Christie (9%) *Articles:* *Boston Globe: Poll: Mass. Democrats would back Clinton over Warren <http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/08/25/mass-democrats-would-back-hillary-clinton-over-elizabeth-warren/ovPP3acnx3hxRTVFz9D4uK/story.html>* By Jim O’Sullivan August 25, 2014 More than three times as many Massachusetts Democrats would vote for Hillary Clinton if she ran for president in 2016 than would back the state’s senior senator, Elizabeth Warren, according to a poll released Monday by Suffolk University and The Boston Herald. Clinton, the former secretary of state and first lady, would garner 55 percent of the vote among 400 Massachusetts Democrats likely to vote in next month’s gubernatorial primary, while Warren -- who has repeatedly said that she is not running for president -- would curry 17.25 percent. Vice President Joe Biden drew just 7.75 percent of the vote. Warren would be the second choice of 27 percent of those polled, while Biden would get almost 24 percent of the back-up vote. Warren unseated former Republican senator Scott Brown in 2012, with a winning margin of 8 percentage points. On the same ballot, President Obama beat Mitt Romney, the state’s former governor, by 23 percentage points. Warren has disavowed on multiple occasions interest in running for president, but has not foreclosed entirely on the option. The same poll shows Attorney General Martha Coakley leading the gubernatorial primary with more than 42 percent of the vote, with Treasurer Steve Grossman at 30 percent -- portraying a race significantly closer than a series of public polls have showed. Coakley advisers have acknowledged they expect the race to tighten as the Sept. 9 primary draws near and Grossman’s on-air presence has outpaced Coakley’s. Former federal health care administrator Don Berwick drew 16 percent of the vote. More than 11 percent of voters were undecided. Asked how they would vote if their preferred candidate loses in the primary, 26 percent of voters said they were undecided, while 60 percent said they would back the Democratic nominee. Conducted Aug. 21 to Aug. 24 among 400 likely Democratic primary voters, the poll carries an error margin of plus or minus 4.9 percent. The Suffolk/Herald poll also quizzed 400 Republicans likely to vote in the GOP primary. More than 70 percent said they planned to vote for venture capitalist Charlie Baker over Tea Party-affiliated Mark Fisher, who slightly more than 11 percent of the vote. When asked to compare Baker to Romney, 44 percent said Romney was a better statewide candidate. Less than 24 percent selected Baker. By a smaller margin, less than 5 percentage points, Republican voters said Brown was a better candidate than Baker. The poll showed New Jersey governor Chris Christie, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Kentucky senator Rand Paul, and Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan, the GOP’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, clustered atop the leaderboard of the Massachusetts presidential primary. Each earned between 10 and 11 percent of the vote. When the question was asked with Romney added to the list, 49 percent said he would be their first choice, while all the other candidates plunged below 8 percent. *National Review: No, Hillary Doesn’t Need to Speak About Ferguson <http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/386211/no-hillary-doesnt-need-speak-about-ferguson-charles-c-w-cooke>* By Charles C. W. Cooke August 25, 2014 10:53 a.m. EDT In Politico, Maggie Haberman notes that Hillary Clinton has not yet commented on the situation in Ferguson: Hillary Clinton ignored reporters’ questions about the racial conflict in Ferguson, Missouri, on Sunday at the end of a book-signing event in Westhampton Beach, a vacation enclave near her rented summer house. Clinton, the potential 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful who has been vacationing in the Hamptons since the first full week of August, has not yet commented on the situation in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, where an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown was killed by a police officer two weeks ago. So what? As a general rule, we really do not need to hear from absolutely everybody in the political class each and every time that something dramatic happens. If Hillary Clinton wishes to pronounce upon the topic, I’m sure she will. If she doesn’t, then she doesn’t have to. Either way, there’s no particular reason we need to hear her take. She’s not an elected official. She has no authority over Ferguson, Missouri. She has no more information than anybody else. She is, for now at least, a citizen of the United States. Nothing more, nothing less. Now, it might be politically interesting that she has stayed silent. Reticence, after all, is not a virtue that is typically associated with the family. But one suspects that this is not why she is being urged to speak. Instead, those doing the urging seem to want to add her voice to whatever agenda they are trying to sell. Haberman writes: The Rev. Al Sharpton, at a rally in Ferguson last weekend, pushed toward the future, calling on all the 2016 potential candidates, including Clinton and Republican Jeb Bush, to comment on the situation. Clinton is the clear front-runner for the Democratic nomination. This, frankly, is absurd. At the heart of the situation in Ferguson is a question that neither Clinton nor Bush can possibly answer. That question: “Was the killing of Michael Brown justified?” Neither Bush nor Clinton know the answer to this. Indeed, they cannot possibly know the answer to this. In consequence, asking them to pronounce upon the secondary issues is downright silly. What, pray, can they say? They don’t know whether the protests are justified or misplaced because they don’t know whether there was any wrongdoing. Presumably neither of them is going to endorse rioting, nor are they likely to defend some of the poor policing we have seen. Worse still, anything either one of them were to say would immediately be taken as an endorsement of one side or another — an endorsement that they cannot and should not be making at this juncture. Let’s leave the post-mortems to those involved. *The Courier-Journal: Rand Paul labels Hillary Clinton a "war hawk" <http://www.courier-journal.com/story/politics-blog/2014/08/25/rand-paul-calls-hillary-clinton-a-war-hawk-on-meet-the-press/14564239/>* By James R. Carroll August 25, 2014, 12:07 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON - Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is continuing his unrelenting criticism of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying on Sunday that she was "a war hawk" who could get the United States involved in another Middle East conflict. Paul appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press," interviewed while on his humanitarian mission to Guatemala performing eye surgeries. A possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate, Paul went after Clinton, a possible 2016 Democratic presidential candidate. "I think that's what scares the Democrats the most, is that in a general election, were I to run, there's gonna be a lot of independents and even some Democrats who say, 'You know what, we are tired of war. We're worried that Hillary Clinton will get us involved in another Middle Eastern war, because she's so gung-ho,'" Paul told NBC's Chris Jansing. "If you wanna see a transformational election in our country, let the Democrats put forward a war hawk like Hillary Clinton, and you'll see a transformation like you've never seen," the Kentucky senator said. Paul added that he believes "the American public is coming more and more to where I am" on American engagement overseas. The senator also discussed the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., that touched off days of protests and unrest, as well as a military-style response from area police. Paul has been calling for an overhaul of drug laws and sentencing, saying that the legal system is disenfranchising minorities far more than whites and is hurting the ability of those who commit non-violent crimes from getting jobs. "Let's say none of this has to do with race," Paul said of the Ferguson situation. "It might not, but the belief-- if you're African American and you live in Ferguson, the belief is, you see people in prison and they're mostly black and brown, that somehow it is racial, even if the thoughts that were going on at that time had nothing to do with race." "So it's a very good chance that had this had nothing to do with race, but because of all of the arrest and the...way people were arrested, that everybody perceives it as, 'My goodness, the police are out to get us,' you know? And so that's why you have to change the whole war on drugs. It's not just this one instance," he said. "And I don't know what happened during the shooting, so I'm not gonna make a judgment on the shooting. But I do know what's happening, as far as that you look at who's in our prisons," Paul said. But the senator himself came under fire from Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and now a Washington Post columnist. Gerson said on "Meet the Press" that "it is wonderful, what he's doing" in Guatemala performing eye surgeries for the poor. "But he's a senator, and a possible presidential candidate, and his policy views matter," Gerson said. "He's called for the gradual elimination of all foreign aid. Now, I've seen its effect in sub-Saharan Africa and other places. This would cause misery for millions of people on AIDS treatment. It would betray hundreds of thousands of children receiving, you know, malaria treatment," Gerson said. "These are things that you can't ignore in a presidential candidate," he added. "This is a perfect case of how a person can have good intentions but how an ideology can cause terrible misery. He will need to explain that. This is his policy views." The Democratic National Committee, which is responding to Paul just about every time he makes a public statement, pounced on the senator's criticism of Clinton. "Senator Paul's foreign policy vision is to retreat from our responsibilities abroad by ending all foreign aid to our allies – including Israel," charged DNC spokesman Michael Czin. "That's the vision he's laid out and defended time and time again...If Senator Paul wants to have a debate between his fringe, isolationist vision and that of Democrats who have restored our credibility around the world and brought countless service members safely home, that's a debate we're eager to have." *CBS News: Few Americans identify as libertarian, survey finds <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/few-americans-identify-as-libertarian-survey-finds/>* By Stephanie Condon August 25, 2014, 12:37 p.m. EDT Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., appears to be a competitive contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, but few Americans identify with his political ideology, according to a new survey. Only 14 percent of Americans identify as libertarian, according to new Pew Research Center data. Fewer, just 11 percent, identify as libertarian and also correctly define the term as "someone whose political views emphasize individual freedom by limiting the role of government." Additionally, Pew found that self-described libertarians do not always subscribe to libertarian views. For instance, libertarianism is often associated with non-interventionist foreign policy beliefs. Paul over the weekend said derisively, "Let the Democrats put forward a war hawk like Hillary Clinton." However, Pew found that as many as 43 percent of self-described libertarians think "it is best for the future of our country to be active in world affairs." By comparison, just 35 percent of the general public said the same. In other areas, the views held by self-described libertarians were more in line with typical libertarian believes. As many as 82 percent say "Americans shouldn't have to give up privacy and freedom in order to be safe from terrorism." Nearly three-quarters of the general public said the same thing. Additionally, more self-described libertarians (56 percent) than the public overall (47 percent) say government regulation of business does more harm than good. Self-described libertarians are also more likely than the general public to disapprove of social safety-net programs and more likely to support legalizing marijuana. Pew found that men were twice as likely as women (15 percent compared with 7 percent) to identify as libertarian, while college graduates (15 percent) were more likely to identify as libertarian than those with just a high school education (7 percent). While just 6 percent of Democrats identified as libertarian, 14 percent of independents and 12 percent of Republicans did so. Pew's data comes from its political typology and polarization survey conducted earlier this year, as well as a recent survey of a subset of those respondents, conducted April 29-May 27 among 3,243 adults. *Esquire blog: Things In Politico That Make Me Want To Guzzle Antifreeze, Part The Infinity <http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Ghosts_Of_Bill_Clinton_Past>* By Charles P. Pierce August 25, 2014 [Subtitle:] Hello, and welcome back to Mena Airport. Don't say I didn't warn you. Don't say I didn't tell you that, as soon as Hillary Clinton drifted anywhere within an area code of running for president, all the pre-fabricated skeletons would come waltzing out of the closets. Don't say I didn't caution of the danger inherent in having an entire generation of political reporters the formative political events of which was the constant pursuit of former president Clinton by an incredible posse of grifters, legal highwaymen, Arkansas bunco artists, oppo outlaws, and political opportunists. (Hi there, Joe Scarborough!) Is this my horn which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me toot thee. This brings us back to the bait shop in Arkansas. It would be a capital mistake to believe that Ms. Clinton's years as a senator, and as a presidential candidate, and as secretary of state - to say nothing of the postpresidential popularity of her husband - have somehow put all the ghosts of the 1990s to rest. The political climate is even wilder now, the political conversation, in many quarters, even further detached from reality than it was when Rush Limbaugh openly passed along a report that Vince Foster had died in some Washington pied-à-terre, only to have his body moved to Fort Marcy Park. There are thousands of little Limbaughs now, on the radio and on the Internet. A lot of mainstream political journalism is being practiced by young people whose formative lessons in the business were not Woodward and Bernstein chasing down lead after futile lead, but rather Matt Drudge ruling the world in the 1990s, with all the elite press chasing after him. I would like to believe we all have learned as much as we've needed to learn from that incredible decade of enabled slander. I also would like to believe in unicorns. Still think I was overreacting? Get a gander at Tiger Beat On The Potomac this morning. Josh Gerstein, his prose shadowy and performed in the minor key of innuendo and scandal, has a long piece about the "secret files" stashed at the Clinton library down in darkest Arkansas, and if you find the general theme of the piece familiar, you are not alone. For more than 20 years, people have treated the Clintons as though they were a subject for one of those History 2 specials on the Templars, or something to be discussed by...The Most Awesome Man On Television. Secrets Of The Clinton Library. Bwah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah! There's the usual boilerplate about "transparency" and our Right To Know, but Gerstein wastes little time getting himself a seat around the fire at Parker Dozhier's bait shoppe, and he has some tales to tell in the firelight. Pass that jug over here, Billy Ray. The pardon feeding frenzy: The last-minute pardon of billionaire financier Marc Rich became one of the most infamous moments of Clinton's presidency, sullying the president's reputation as he walked out the door. Less well-known or remembered is the feeding frenzy of clemency applications that flowed into the White House in the weeks before Clinton left office. The list of individuals relaying pardon requests is a who's who of prominent Democratic Party figures. Yeah, and your point is? I hate to keep bringing this up, but the president's power to pardon is absolute -- so, naturally, a lot of people who know him are going to press their personal cases on him. Even if Clinton's reputation was "sullied," as though that were ever a concern of the people who howled about the Rich pardon, so what? Many of the requests are already public. What's set to emerge in the coming weeks are the recommendations Clinton got from the Justice Department and his own staffers, including the pros and cons of the most sensitive pardons. White House staffers may have disagreed? Glorioski, what was wrong with those Clintons anyway? 3) Vince Foster: The Clinton Library has never released its key files on the death of Vince Foster, a White House attorney and former law partner of Hillary Clinton. Foster killed himself in July 1993 as he was handling various controversies that enmeshed the Clintons in their early months at the White House. The event was emotionally scarring for many in the Clintons' circle and fueled numerous conspiracy theories. Oh, dear Jesus, can we not go there again? The poor man killed himself in Fort Marcy Park and, in his suicide note, specifically denounced the Wall Street Journal under crazoid Bob Bartley, and the Washington press corps generally, for their tendency to "destroy people for sport." His corpse was then used by horrible people -- like Rush Limbaugh, and Aqua Buddha's new pal, David Bossie -- to flog conspiracy theories as a way of throwing sand in the gears of a Democratic administration. It was the single most indecent act of ratfking in my memory. And now, apparently, it's back. At the time of Foster's death, he was deeply involved in responding to a lawsuit filed against Clinton's Health Care Task Force. One previously secret document is listed this way in Clinton Library files: "Photcopy [sic] Note from Vincent Foster to Hillary Rodham Clinton [Re: Health Care Task Force lawsuit] (1 page)." Of the half-dozen other handwritten notes Foster saved, several are set for release, but - fueling unending conspiracy theories - several of his other writings are still slated to be withheld on privacy grounds. National Archives and Records Administration records obtained by POLITICO also indicate the forthcoming files include "White House personnel opinions on what to do about disclosure" relating to the Foster saga as well as legal memos about strategies to fight Freedom of Information Act requests seeking White House records about Foster's death. Just fking shut up, OK, and let the man rest. 6) White House Travel Office affair. Oh, come on. Really? Earlier, public statements by the White House downplayed Hillary's role, but the White House's full records on the controversy - including legal advice on how to respond to questions about the first lady's actions - have never been made public. About 2,000 pages of records were withheld from an investigating congressional committee on executive privilege grounds. Now, many of those records are set for release. Neighbor, how stands the Republic? And then, of course, the big finish. 7) Whitewater: Notably absent from the recent Clinton Library releases: any of the more than 56,000 pages the White House maintained on the Clintons' Whitewater land deal and the years of investigations it gave rise to. All of which came to absolutely nothing. It's too early in the day for this much whiskey. *Mediaite: Sarah Palin Finally Does ‘That Ice Bucket Water Dump Thing’ <http://www.mediaite.com/online/sarah-palin-finally-does-that-ice-bucket-water-dump-thing/>* By Matt Wilstein August 25th, 2014 11:20 a.m. EDT You would have thought Sarah Palin would have jumped on this bandwagon ages ago. But it wasn’t until this weekend that the former governor of Alaska and current media mogul decided to get in on the summer’s biggest viral trend after getting nominated by Wasilla Arctic Cat, which makes the snowmobiles her family loves so much. “At this stage of my life, of my career, aren’t I a little too prim and proper for all that ice bucket water dump thing?” Palin asked. Palin took a page out of Patrick Stewart’s book, putting the emphasis on the check she was writing (and bragging about doubling the required amount), then using the ice to make drink (Diet Dr. Pepper instead of scotch). But don’t worry, thanks to someone off-camera, you still get to see Palin scream in agony as cold water is abruptly poured over her head, possibly ruining the whopping $200 check she had just finished writing. As for who Palin nominated, she chose former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and “he whom she recently said is her favorite Republican” (burn), John McCain. [Video] *Washington Post: Warren draft group continues ‘full steam ahead,’ despite senator’s complaint <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/08/25/warren-draft-group-continues-full-steam-ahead-despite-senators-complaint/>* By Nia-Malika Henderson August 25 at 12:44 p.m. EDT Normally, when a draft movement crops up for a potential presidential candidate, there is a kind of tacit support and agreement between the would-be candidate and the group,which technically and legally can’t coordinate with a the would-be candidate. That’s the case with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Ready for Hillary, a group that has raised millions of dollars, gathered reams of information on voters and is basically considered to be Clinton’s 2016 campaign-in-waiting. Well, things are very different for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who progressives really want to draft her for a 2016 presidential run. Warren, time and time again, has said she has no intention to run. Progressives don’t care, so they’ve formed Ready for Warren. But if she’s not running, what’s the point of Ready for Warren? That’s what Warren wants to know. In a letter to the Federal Election Commission dated Aug. 22, Warren, through her attorneys, again states that there is no Warren 2016. And to the group that really hopes she’ll change her mind, she (her lawyers) essentially says: knock it off. The Senator has not, and does not, explicitly or implicitly, authorize, endorse, or otherwise approve of the organization’s formation or activities. To the contrary, Senator Warren has publicly announced that she is not running for President in 2016. Instead, the Senator hopes this organization will focus its attention and energy on maintaining Democratic control of the US Senate and not confuse donors about a non-existent run for President. Sounds pretty clear, right? Well, Ready for Warren remains undeterred, despite Warren’s pretty clear and public disavowal. Erica Sagrans, campaign manager for Ready for Warren, says the Massachusetts is still their choice, and they will still carry on, with all sorts of activities, including house parties. We will continue full steam ahead with our campaign to draft Senator Warren to run for president in 2016, because we believe she is the best person for the job. Senator Warren has devoted her life to fighting for working families, and is one of the few politicians willing to take on Wall Street and champion policies that give all Americans a fair shot. We completely agree with Senator Warren that maintaining Democratic control of the Senate in 2014 must be a top priority leading up to November. Sagrans, in a comment to She the People, said: “When she ran for Senate, it wasn’t her plan. But when she saw that she had a chance to run for Senate and saw that she could make a difference in that role, she decided to do it and the same thing could happen here.” Basically, we’re at square one. Warren says she isn’t running. Again. Ready for Warren says they really want her to run. Here’s the thing about draft movements. They often don’t produce very good candidates for president. Remember Wesley Clarke? How about that effort to draft Colin Powell? Didn’t exactly work. You have to go back to Dwight D. Eisenhower, a military man, who was buoyed by an army of organizers and elected officials who propelled him to the White House in 1952. Running for president is about policies, but it’s also about personality. It’s about being a good candidate (being good on television and good at giving speeches and debating helps out with that.) But to put themselves through a grueling years long process of running, candidates have to have a burning desire to actually run for president and to be the president. Warren doesn’t seem to have that. At least not yet. Maybe Ready for Warren, a group she doesn’t approve of can convince her otherwise. But beyond that, there’s still a question of whether she would make a good candidate for president in that backslapping, kissing babies sort of way. *The Hill: Bernie Sanders headed to Iowa <http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/215890-bernie-sanders-headed-to-iowa>* By Alexander Bolton August 25, 2014, 1:01 p.m. EDT Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, is planning a trip to Iowa next month at the same time Hillary Clinton will be stumping in the battleground state. Sanders announced Monday that he will attend a series of town-hall meetings on Sept. 13 and 14 in Iowa, which will host the first contest of the 2016 presidential primary. Clinton, the early front-runner in the 2016 Democratic primary, will be in Iowa the same weekend as Sanders. She plans to attend Sen. Tom Harkin’s (D-Iowa) annual steak fry. Sanders has flirted with the idea of running for president, saying he would consider a campaign if no credible alternative on the left emerged to take on Clinton. He’s also said Democrats should not anoint Clinton as their candidate. And Iowa isn’t the only early-voting state Sanders is visiting. He will travel this week to South Carolina, an important early primary state, to speak in Columbia at an event sponsored by Progressive Voters of America, South Forward and South Carolina Progressive Network. Sanders also will attend the Fighting Bob Fest, an annual gathering of progressives in Wisconsin, on Sep. 12 and 13. The event is named after the late progressive stalwart Sen. Bob La Follette (R-Wis.). An announcement issued by Sanders’s political operation stated that Sanders will be in Iowa Sept. 12 and 13, but a senior Sanders aide said his boss would be there Sept. 13 and 14, instead. *CNN Money: Hillary Clinton Voted "Most Likely to be President" While Joe Biden Voted "Class Clown" by Americans <http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NY96713.htm>* [No author mentioned] August 25, 2014 1:00 p.m. EDT [Subtitle:] Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton are the presidents Americans would most want to have as a high school teacher; Barack Obama the one Americans would never want to have NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- As President Obama continues to deal with a number of crises, criticism over his vacation and his job ratings also continue to drift downward. This month, almost one-third of Americans (32%) give the President positive ratings for the overall job he is doing, while almost seven in ten (68%) give him negative ratings. This is down from last month, when 34% gave him positive ratings and 66% gave him negative marks; this is the second time this year (January being the other) that his ratings have been this low. These are some of the results of The Harris Poll® of 2,537 adults surveyed online between August 13 and 18, 2014. (Full results, including data tables, available here <http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/mid/1508/ArticleId/1484/Default.aspx> ) After hitting a "high" mark for the past two years in June with a positive rating of 10%, Congress also drifts downward. Last month 9% of Americans gave them positive ratings and this month 8% do so, while 92% of Americans give them negative marks on the overall job they are doing. Looking at the country as a whole, one-third of Americans (32%) say things are going in the right direction in the country, while almost seven in ten (68%) say things have gotten off on the wrong track. Last month, three in ten (31%) said things were going in the right direction, while seven in ten (69%) said things were going off on the wrong track. If Washington was like a high school yearbook As kids around the country go back to school, it is interesting to look at some visible politicians in Washington and around the country and harken back to those high school yearbook lists. There was that one person who was class clown and another who was voted most likely to be President. Well, when given a list of 12 politicians, here is how Americans would vote (top two for each category shown): · Class Clown: Joe Biden (21%) and Chris Christie (14%) · Most Likely to Succeed: Hillary Clinton (15%) and Chris Christie/Rand Paul/Elizabeth Warren (7%) · Teacher's Pet: Joe Biden/Nancy Pelosi/Hillary Clinton (9%) and Harry Reid (7%) · Best Hair: Marco Rubio/Elizabeth Warren (8%) and Nancy Pelosi (7%) · Most Likely to be President: Hillary Clinton (34%) and Chris Christie/Marco Rubio (6%) · Most Annoying: Nancy Pelosi (19%) and John Boehner (11%) · Most Popular: Hillary Clinton (13%) and Chris Christie (9%) Presidents as High School Teachers While many U.S. Presidents taught law and at the college level, John Adams, Millard Fillmore, James Garfield and Chester Arthur taught at the primary and secondary levels as well. So, what if recent U.S. Presidents were high school teachers? Are there ones people wish they could have had as a teacher and ones they never would have wanted to have? Over one-third of Americans (37%) say they wish they could have had Ronald Reagan as a teacher, while one-quarter (26%) wish they could have had Bill Clinton. Just over one in ten wish they could have had Barack Obama (13%) and Jimmy Carter (12%), while under one in ten wish they could have had George H.W. Bush (6%) and George W. Bush (5%). On the other side, two in five Americans (40%) say they would never want to have had Barack Obama as a teacher, while three in ten (30%) say they same about George W. Bush. One in ten (10%) say they would not have wanted to have George H.W. Bush as a teacher, while less than one in ten say that about Ronald Reagan (7%), Jimmy Carter (7%) and Bill Clinton (6%). To see how all the politicians stacked up for the high school yearbook questions as well as other recent Harris Polls, please visit the Harris Poll News Room. Methodology This Harris Poll was conducted online within the United States between August 13 and 18, 2014 among 2,537 adults (aged 18 and over). Figures for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, region and household income were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents' propensity to be online. All sample surveys and polls, whether or not they use probability sampling, are subject to multiple sources of error which are most often not possible to quantify or estimate, including sampling error, coverage error, error associated with nonresponse, error associated with question wording and response options, and post-survey weighting and adjustments. Therefore, The Harris Poll avoids the words "margin of error" as they are misleading. All that can be calculated are different possible sampling errors with different probabilities for pure, unweighted, random samples with 100% response rates. These are only theoretical because no published polls come close to this ideal. Respondents for this survey were selected from among those who have agreed to participate in Harris Poll surveys. The data have been weighted to reflect the composition of the adult population. Because the sample is based on those who agreed to participate in our panel, no estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. These statements conform to the principles of disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.