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Rose Siding

(32,623 posts)
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 08:26 PM Mar 2016

Tampa Bay Times: A week to go before Fl primary, Sanders shows up to campaign

Less than a week before the primary in the country's third largest state, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has a skeleton crew in Florida: four paid staffers and three campaign offices.Compare that with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's dozens of staffers and eight offices.

Even with three campaign events this week and a Wednesday night debate in Miami — his first trip to Florida as a presidential candidate — there have been few signs of the Vermont senator on the state's campaign trail.

Political analysts say that's no accident.

"To say it's a pipe dream would imply he actually thinks he has a shot," said University of Central Florida political science professor Aubrey Jewett. "I suspect he realizes he doesn't have a shot in Florida, but to be taken seriously as a candidate, you have to basically compete in the biggest battleground state."

As of Tuesday, Sanders was 25.6 points behind Clinton in Florida, with just 32.2 percent of Democrats' support, according to a RealClearPolitics.com average of state polling data.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/with-a-week-to-go-before-florida-primary-sanders-shows-up-to-campaign/2268485
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Tampa Bay Times: A week to go before Fl primary, Sanders shows up to campaign (Original Post) Rose Siding Mar 2016 OP
Ouch, lower than a pipe dream... LannyDeVaney Mar 2016 #1
Florida has not even voted yet & Bernie has already lost Florida. William769 Mar 2016 #2
No kidding. Check this headline in the Miami Herald- Rose Siding Mar 2016 #3
School's out Bernie Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2016 #5
I've been hoping that would catch up with him Rose Siding Mar 2016 #6
Better late than pregnant. Treant Mar 2016 #4
I will be so proud radical noodle Mar 2016 #7
 

LannyDeVaney

(1,033 posts)
1. Ouch, lower than a pipe dream...
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 08:27 PM
Mar 2016

Not much of a surge.

Somebody needs to tell him that Florida is a whee-bit important in campaigns.

Rose Siding

(32,623 posts)
3. No kidding. Check this headline in the Miami Herald-
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 08:52 PM
Mar 2016
Bernie Sanders says he has to brush up on Colombian peace process

Bernie Sanders declined to opine Tuesday on perhaps the most important issue for South Florida Colombian-American voters: the fraught peace talks between the Colombian government and armed guerrillas.

Asked about the negotiations on a Colombian-American radio station in Miami, Sanders said he had to brush up. The peace process has been under way in Havana for more than three years.

"Um, I have to tell you that I am not up to date on that issue," Sanders told Radio Caracol, WSUA-AM (1260). "What I will tell you is that I think the United States has not paid anywhere near the kind of attention that it should be paying to Latin America, who are our closest allies."

His Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, is the former U.S. secretary of state.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2016/03/bernie-sanders-says-he-has-to-brush-up-on-colombian-peace-process.html


Rose Siding

(32,623 posts)
6. I've been hoping that would catch up with him
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 09:22 PM
Mar 2016

Don't you love the subtle "his opponent was the Sec State"? Made me smile!

radical noodle

(7,990 posts)
7. I will be so proud
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 10:10 PM
Mar 2016

to cast my vote in Florida for Hillary on March 15th! It's hard for me to imagine Bernie winning here.

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