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Media Blackout As Thousands of Bernie Sanders Supporters March in 45 Cities
Nathan Wellman | February 27, 2016
Ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries, a nationwide march has swept across the nation for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Organizers have reported that at least 40 cities are holding demonstrations, and perhaps as many as 70.
Thousands of cheering Bernie supporters have packed metropolitan sidewalks and streets, further cementing the rallying cry that the Bernie phenomenon is more than a Presidential campaign. Its a passionate political movement that demands revolution. Despite everything theyve battled so far, the Sanders campaign is thriving.
Ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries, a nationwide march has swept across the nation for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Organizers have reported that at least 40 cities are holding demonstrations, and perhaps as many as 70.
Thousands of cheering Bernie supporters have packed metropolitan sidewalks and streets, further cementing the rallying cry that the Bernie phenomenon is more than a Presidential campaign. Its a passionate political movement that demands revolution. Despite everything theyve battled so far, the Sanders campaign is thriving.
https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos_h264high/5729BE268F1315432911662694400_SW_WEBM_1456597855970f610970c14.mp4?versionId=l9fJdz719Cp66OScbBFTmPmZNEVOnos9
The insane reality that a candidate like Bernie can rouse thousands to take to the streets for him and yet still be treated by the media and the DNC like some kind of long-shot underdog only further proves the deliberate nature of their attempted sabotage of his campaign.
By contrast, Hillary Clintons campaign hasnt been able to muster enough supporters for a march of any kind for the entire election season.
http://usuncut.com/politics/media-blackout-as-thousands-of-bernie-supporters-march-in-45-cities/
lovuian
(19,362 posts)and voices are being heard
ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)won't be televised! If ever there's a more concerted effort by MSM and ALL THE OTHER heads in our GOVERNMENT... this is it! Just shut-up, ignore and make sure the message WON'T get heard!
Hillary can claim ALL the victories she wants, but the REALITY is... people don't like her! Too many are being told over and over BERNIE CAN'T WIN, so TOO MANY PEOPLE just roll over and play THEIR GAME!
The game that keeps REAL DEMOCRACY from being heard!
Jenny_92808
(1,342 posts)Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)Make voices heard by voting.
Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)We are watching the death of the democratic party.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)But truth will out.
Like it or not.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)DocMac
(1,628 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)it is sending, esp. to the largest living demographic?
DNC, media, almost 100% of Democratic officeholders endorsing and campaigning for one person, super delegates? Could it be any more clear?
senz
(11,945 posts)Couldn't be more clear.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)SciDude
(79 posts)Welcome to 2016!
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)Welcome! ¡Vamos!
LWolf
(46,179 posts)Perhaps they should surround media outlets themselves.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)Media.
Imagination is power
We need those crowds out in the streets on March 1.
Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)We know how this goes.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)mom campaigned for HRC in SC and has endorsed her
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)all that money for nothing course to Hillary meh super rich they don't care
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Hillary's "victories" in Southern states are meaningless. They make Hillary supporters feel good. But the only victory that counts is in November.
And in very liberal states, the states that elect Democratic presidents, and in swing states, we have yet to see who will win.
I think Bernie will win in many of them.
I think that once we start campaigning in California, we will see a Bernie landslide develop here. Same for Washington State and Oregon -- two major states.
Here is the Wikipedia article showing how states vote in presidential elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_election_results_by_state
Here are the maps.
http://www.270towin.com/historical-presidential-elections/
Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana -- pretty irrelevant in presidential elections at least for Democrats. Louisiana voted Democratic the most recently. It could go blue. But the South in general is hopeless.
Georgia? Virginia? Maybe they will vote blue in November. But a primary victory in South Carolina means nothing for a Democrat. Remember, that state, and others of the Southern states, only removed the Confederate flags from official buildings last year.
They are backward.
And before Democrats from those states here on this board start yelling at me, I ask them to tell me what they are going to do and are doing and have done to turn their states blue?????
Cause as you see from the maps, the South is deeply red. Don't tell me to be nice. Get out and turn your states blue.
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)You think those states don't count? Just count the delegates to the convention. They count. They count very much.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)but neither state will go Democratic in November.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)which like 10 morons showed up
SciDude
(79 posts)and the oligarchy and it really shows when we see this kind of reporting.
NJCher
(35,764 posts)they constantly reinforce that I am right to support Bernie.
Cher
Herman4747
(1,825 posts)That about sums it up. If a person has to hold his/her nose to vote for Hillary, the GOTV may, shall we say, be a bit dampened.
Chico Man
(3,001 posts)That's really all that matters at this point.
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)Republican turnout is out while democratic turnout is down.
mgmaggiemg
(869 posts)thanks
DrBulldog
(841 posts). . . if Hillary gets the nomination, so many of us will be pissed off and the anti-establishment forces are so strong that our next President is very likely to be Donald Trump!
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)All bark and no bite.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Voter turnout is low for all kinds of reasons, but the main one is an absolute LACK of voter registration efforts leading up to the all of TWO primaries and a complete lack of GOTV effort on the part of the Democratic Party. That's the way they want it. Now, Bernie won New Hampshire, Hillary won South Carolina. There are 46 more states to go INCLUDING the more progressive states. So cool your jets, quit your incessant whining on this board and get out and do something. I phone banked for 3 hours into Colorado and Oklahoma for Bernie yesterday. What did you do?
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)and drop the completed form in a mailbox.
Where I live, voter registration drives are done by candidates and the local party organization. How many voters have you helped to register? I've mailed over 100 registrations in the past four years. That's not a huge number, but I work in my own precinct.
You want people to register? Go help them register. Don't wait for someone else to do it.
flamingdem
(39,332 posts)I hope so.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)Any other links to this info?
kacekwl
(7,022 posts)I get e-mails all the time asking for donations but nothing on this.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... it must become apparent to even the most delusional "true believers" that the corruption of this Democratic primary campaign has rivaled, if not exceeded, anything in living memory. I am ashamed, though I doubt that its perpetrators feel even the slightest twinge of remorse or inhibition.
My faith in Bernie Sanders remains steadfast.
Uncle Joe
(58,453 posts)Thanks for the thread, amborin.
Don Draper
(187 posts)It's sickening. That's why I stopped watching corporate media regularly in years.
valerief
(53,235 posts)dchill
(38,559 posts)By contrast, Hillary Clintons campaign hasnt been able to muster enough supporters for a march of any kind for the entire election season.
brooklynite
(94,787 posts)Perhaps the Clinton campaign doesn't need rallies and marches....and perhaps rallies and marches don't actually translate to votes for the Sanders campaign.
questionseverything
(9,662 posts)'Arti-factual' Results
The case he'll present tomorrow to the state Democratic Party's executive committee does not include evidence of direct manipulation, but rather, a three-pronged case combining the known problems and historical failures of the ES&S iVotronic system, in combination with the statistical and political improbabilities that Greene, an unemployed, unknown candidate who did no campaigning whatsoever, could have legitimately received some 60% of the total vote.
"The results appear to be artificial, or 'arti-factual', as some people might say. As we've done our analysis, it just doesn't hold up," said Ludwig.
Speaking to the oft-cited fallacy being forwarded in the media that both candidates were equally unknown entities, who each did little or no campaigning, Ludwig re-iterated what Rawl has been saying in his recent media appearances. "There is an inherent presumption that these were equivalent campaigns. We campaigned, the other guy just simply didn't."
Rawl has said he'd raised hundreds of thousands of dollars during the campaign, appeared at some 80 campaign events all across the state since March 1st, and had hundreds of campaign volunteers. By way of contrast, Greene didn't have a campaign website, had no volunteers, no campaign literature, and doesn't even own a computer or a cell phone.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7899
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we are in a place in history where a candidate needs nothing but access to the software and a good IT guy
brooklynite
(94,787 posts)...out of curiosity, is there any basis on which you can believe that authentic Democrats actually prefer Clinton to Sanders?
questionseverything
(9,662 posts)so there would be no point in bernie challenging ,the sc dem party have already shown they have no interest in transparent,accurate election results
surprised you are so happy with sc results since the dem turn out is 161,000 votes down
from 08
http://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/bitstream/handle/10827/13014/ELE_Presidential_Primaries_2008.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
as for the basis i would believe?
i believe in what i can see with my own eyes...not some result spit out by a "blackbox"
most of the super tuesday states have equally bad systems
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)in Minnesota, checking to see if I'll be caucusing for her. None from Bernie's camp. Why is that? I'm on all of the lists of Democratic voters, complete with both my landline and cell phone number and email address.
I've heard nothing from the Bernie Sanders campaign, but have received multiple contacts from Hillary's.
Your explanation?
dchill
(38,559 posts)Besides, the question is, where are all the marches for Hillary.
Can you answer:
Why did Hillary vote for the IWR?
Why did Hillary give paid speeches to Wall Street?
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)maybe it will be the MSM that will die. Shame on all media for not covering this. I've about given up on MSNBC. Very grateful for social media.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)and what is showing up in black box voting. That's all I'm going to say.
Koinos
(2,792 posts)That is how Sanders can win this thing.
Otherwise, it's just a big empty show.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Yeah, me neither.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)others believing change can happen. A political revolution might happen and we wouldn't want that now would we..............
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)The street is one thing. The polling place, though, is more important.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)party politics, THANK GODS, is dying.
people want the estsblishment OUT.
and if they have to vote trump, stein, or write in, by gods this is gonna happen.
the train is coming. we can either nominate our own anti establishment warrior, or watch the end of party politcs AND a major progressive/lib defeat at all levels at the same time
your choice, folks,....
oh and p.s.
fuck the media
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)reality would look very different. Not too long ago all the M$M tricks ruled, now the game has changed.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)out walking the streets to knock doors and phone banking this weekend in super Tuesday states.
MSM may not know it yet but in the long run they are going to pay for this. Most of us already think they are not worth watching. I have not had my tv on for months.
But what they do not understand is that they are building distrust. As soon as my contract is up I will not be renewing it. I have my computer, kindle, crossword puzzle books and music to keep me entertained and I do not need them for anything else.