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Who will win the battle of Brooklyn?
This is a Good Read for both candidates, IMO. But rather than post it where it will no doubt get dumped on, I choose to post it here.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2016/04/02/new-york-showdown-between-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders-will-personal/aUtjf879UES7uvB9oLtiZL/story.html
Battle lines are drawn through neighborhoods brimming with traditional party loyalists backing Clinton and younger Sanders supporters clamoring for revolutionary change.
The fact that both candidates decided to plant their offices here highlights how neatly Brooklyn works as a microcosm of the Democratic electorate and reveals the difficulty that the eventual nominee will have uniting the factions.
There’s little evidence that Sanders is making large inroads with the blacks, Hispanics, or business leaders who have flocked to various Brooklyn neighborhoods in the five decades since he left.
But equally, the young idealists who fill the edgier parts of this borough and are injecting new energy into the Democratic Party aren’t particularly eager to embrace Clinton, who doesn’t seem to them to be in vanguard of much of anything.
The fact that both candidates decided to plant their offices here highlights how neatly Brooklyn works as a microcosm of the Democratic electorate and reveals the difficulty that the eventual nominee will have uniting the factions.
There’s little evidence that Sanders is making large inroads with the blacks, Hispanics, or business leaders who have flocked to various Brooklyn neighborhoods in the five decades since he left.
But equally, the young idealists who fill the edgier parts of this borough and are injecting new energy into the Democratic Party aren’t particularly eager to embrace Clinton, who doesn’t seem to them to be in vanguard of much of anything.
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IMO, you can rant ALL you want! 
the "newbies," the writer didn't bother to confirm whether those prospective Bernie voters were actually registered Democrats.
That matters in NY, with its closed primary. 
