Maureen Dowd's op-ed column in Sunday's New York Times is the most read, shared and tweeted content about Hillary Clinton Sunday, according to Lead Stories' Trendolizer. Titled "Trade Winds Blow Ill for Hillary," it examines the former first lady's awkward waffling on Obama's controversial trade agreement. She supported it as Obama's secretary of state, but recently shifted as Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, have vigorously opposed it.
"Now Hillary says she is unsure about the pact and would likely oppose giving President Obama the special authority to negotiate trade deals for an up-or-down vote in Congress," Dowd writes. As a future president, of course, she would want the same authority to negotiate trade deals that Obama is seeking in the messy Capitol Hill donnybrook.
"But as a candidate pressured by progressives like (Elizabeth) Warren and Bernie Sanders and by labor unions, she turned to Jell-O, shimmying around an issue she had once owned and offering an unpleasant reminder of why 'Clintonian' became a synonym for skirting the truth."
Dowd suggests that Clinton is "frightened by the passionate acolytes of Warren and Sanders -- whose uncombed authenticity is buoying him in New Hampshire."
Another hot story at the top of the Trendolizer ranking is a Hollywood Reporter headline about Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' meetings in Los Angeles with "a cadre of industry super-liberals." Titled "Bernie Sanders Wows Hollywood Progressives at Two L.A. Fundraisers," it reports that Sanders "slipped quietly into town Saturday for a pair of low-key events that didn't raise seven-figure sums, but did warm the hearts of two overflowing crowds of Hollywood progressives."
"Sanders' supporters might be called the entertainment industry's irreconcilables -- the left flank of the Hollywood Dems' most progressive faction, with activists deeply disappointed in Obama, who they supported, and unwilling to sign on to a Clinton presidential campaign. In the former Secretary of State, they see another moderate waiting to happen," THR reported.
Stories about Sanders' success in chipping away at Clinton's left flank are also trending. An Associated Press report titled "Sanders gaining against Clinton in early polls" is near the top of the Trendolizer rankings Sunday. "Sanders is drawing sizable crowds in the early voting states. He's also gaining against Clinton in very early polls, particularly in New Hampshire, a factor that impresses the political class even though opinion surveys at this point are limited in predicting who will win."
"Clinton remains the race's overwhelming favorite, but there's no question that the 73-year-old self-described democratic socialist, whose disheveled white hair might remind some of Doc Brown from 'Back to the Future,' isn't just a novelty," the AP story says.
The conservative "Daily Caller" is also gaining Trendolizer traction with "Flashback: As Governor, Bill Clinton Honored Confederacy On Arkansas Flag," which suggests that Hillary Clinton is focusing on gun control, not the Confederate battle flag controversy, in her comments on the Charleston church shooting. "Hillary Clinton has weighed in on the gun control aspect of the national discussion, the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination has remained silent on the flag controversy."
The story suggests that she wanted to avoid reminding voters that when she was first lady of Arkansas, her husband approved a measure that honored the Confederacy. "In 1987, when her husband was governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton signed Act 116 that stated 'The blue star above the word 'ARKANSAS' is to commemorate the Confederate States of America."
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