2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Lost His Old Block in Brooklyn
Bernie Sanders is basically the emancipated soul of old Brooklyn. He grew up the child of Polish immigrants in an a small apartment in a heavily Jewish neighborhood that alternately gets described as Midwood and Flatbush. (These borders change with time and real estate trends.) So, you may be wondering, how did the native son do on his old block?
Well, Sanders grew up on 1525 E. 26th Street, which is between Avenue P and King's Highway.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/04/19/bernie_sanders_lost_his_old_block_in_brooklyn.html
DemocracyDirect
(708 posts)That doesn't make sense does it.
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)Coop City, Connecticut, Long Island...Westchester- Rockland...he grew up there many years ago. He has lived in Vermont longer than I have been alive.
floppyboo
(2,461 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)But, excluding new comers registering late, 80,000 life long Democrats that voted every year had their party changed in one County -- his home County. And Sanders one every County that didn't have any voter irregularity. Funny how that happened.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)She won all the city counties AND Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk. The only county that had problems was Kings (Brooklyn). Stop spreading bullshit.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Politicians need the skin of rhinos.
floppyboo
(2,461 posts)Some are ephemeral, others are real. Guess that makes Hillary real! Yay! Go Hill - pftt.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)imagine his schedule allows him time to think about such things.
floppyboo
(2,461 posts)and when you look at the Republicans, I feel very bad for them. None of them seem to be there for any reason outside of themselves, except maybe Kasich, but he's a little 'touched'
floppyboo
(2,461 posts)Wish they hadn't played it so nice. My bold.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/12/18/critics-cry-foul-dnc-cripples-sanders-campaign-operation
Weaver placed blame at the feet of NGP VANand criticized the DNC for hiring the company, saying the Sanders campaign had flagged similar problems with the software for the DNC in the past.
CNN spoke with the fired staffernational data director Josh Uretskywho said the breach was an attempt to "understand how badly the Sanders campaign's data was exposed" by the software error.
"We knew there was a security breach in the data, and we were just trying to understand it and what was happening," Uretsky told CNN
forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)Maybe that will drive it home that you need to show up more than once every few decades if you want to gain grassroots support from people who you want to vote for you.
renate
(13,776 posts)The New York primary is over, and you guys won--congratulations!
So what does it gain you to gloat like this?
I'm honestly curious. Search my past posts and you won't find me criticizing Hillary, and I plan to vote for her since she's almost certainly the eventual nominee. So I'm not asking you as an anti-Hillary person. What good do you think it does to post stuff like this?
I'm practically in tears right now, looking at GDP tonight with all this unnecessary nastiness. We are good people, us Democrats, or at least I've always thought so, all my life. Why are we being so mean to each other? It really hurts me to see all this meanness and ugliness in a group of people I've always thought of as being kind and loving and compassionate.
jfern
(5,204 posts)GoldenThunder
(300 posts)Substitute Obama, Biden, Warren, or just about any other big-name Democrat in place of Hillary as Bernie's opponent and the civility of the nomination contest goes up 500%. She really does just bring out the worst in people.
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)It is a primary. And really to blame Clinton when Bernie won't admit he lost and move on is silly. He needs to step down and be gracious in defeat as she was with Obama.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)the gloating, obnoxious threads after Bernie won WI or really, any other state. Amazing how you missed ALL of them. Almost like you were looking to ignore them.
strategery blunder
(4,225 posts)that I believe many Hillary supporters just automatically assume that ANY criticism or reservation about Hillary MUST be an unjustified RW attack.
Therefore the vitriol that should be directed at the RW gets directed instead to those who wish to vote their conscience and/or ideals in the primary (i.e. before "hold your nose" voting is truly required).
Worse, most of them don't even realize it, or they don't care. (And then they'll wonder why Hillary won't break 45% of the vote in the general...)
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)I saw a thread about Monica...for heaven's sake. The sooner he gets out and this sort of thing is stopped the better.
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)It has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that the voting lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors, including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting lists, he said in a statement released after 5 p.m. on Election Day.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/19/failure-fraud-and-more-in-new-york-s-punk-rock-voting-disaster.html
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)They were probably her peeps.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)...and NY state.
Restrictive voting laws let the beneficiaries add insult to injury.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)The Democratic party nominee? Thats like being mad you cant name someone elses baby.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)Even if they don't call themselves "Democrats."
Identity is a big issue for teenagers.
An 18 year old liberal may think, I can't call myself a "Democrat" because I don't agree with everything Democrats have done.
When that person is older and wiser, it won't seem like a big deal to say, "I'm a Democrat."