2016 Postmortem
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Bernie Sanders Hits a Roadblock
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/opinion/bernie-sanders-hits-a-roadblock.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0
Charles M. Blow FEB. 21, 2016
Bernie Sanderss loss in the Nevada caucuses, 47 percent to 53 percent, reveals a very real weakness of his insurgent challenge to Hillary Clinton.
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It is very hard to see how Sanders wins the nomination without winning the black and Hispanic vote in the Southern and Western states, not to mention New York and Michigan.
Lastly, the political revolution on which Sanders has hinged his ability to accomplish his ambitious plan keeps failing to materialize. This years Democratic caucus participation was down nearly a third from 2008, and in Iowa and New Hampshire there were more voters or caucusgoers making choices in the Republican contest than in the Democratic one.
As Sanders told Meet the Press about the Nevada loss: We did not do as good a job as I had wanted to bring out a large turnout.
That doesnt sound like a political revolution to me...............
ladjf
(17,320 posts)Just because he has been unable to turn the Poc voters to his side is a month or two doesn't mean that his revolution isn't going well.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)By the way, I hold the nursing profession in very high regard.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)Its hopeless unless he can connect with POC especially African Americans.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)He most definitely and wisely addresses their most vital needs. I don't think many POC have studied his platform enough.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)I just dont see it happening.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)the nomination. And if so, he might be to old to run in 2020.
ananda
(28,866 posts)I don't think the majority of the Black electorate in the South
understand the real difference between Sanders and Clinton.
If they did, I would have to say that they have drunk the
incessant media/propaganda koolaid and just don't get how
much better their interests will be represented by Sanders
than by Clinton.
That goes for all of us, by the way... except for the rich and
corporate whose interests will not be represented by Sanders.
G_j
(40,367 posts)this simply reveals the author's desire for the revolution to fail.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)G_j
(40,367 posts)only people with a modicum of awareness can see it.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)And he often lets us know it.
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)at least about the elections. They are either depending
on or owned by the same corporations, which want
Sanders to quit.
The only one I still read is the guardian, a bit more
open to perceiving changes in the public's mood.