2016 Postmortem
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The Gospel of Bernie
The man who brought fire back to the Democratic Part
Sam Frizell / Milford, N.H. @Sam_Frizell
The surging presidential candidate on Sept. 15 in his Washington Senate office.
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If that strikes you as insufficiently calculating, you are starting to understand Bernies momentum. And to understand the Sanders surge is to understand the spirit of 2016. Look around at the candidates who are stumbling and fumbling toward the first balloting less than five months away. Republican Jeb Bush of the White House Bushes learned to count delegates when most kids were still counting fireflies. Democrat Hillary Clinton is part of a family that once commissioned a poll to choose a family vacation that would endear them to voters. So far, calculation is getting them nowhere. The surging candidatesrampant Donald Trump, novice Ben Carson and retro Bernie Sandersrepresent the opposite. Slickness is out, conviction is in.
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Without a single TV ador a single congressional endorsementSanders has exposed the weakness of the partys Clintonian establishment while at the same time spotlighting its hunger for an ideological savior. Polls now indicate that if the nominating contests were held tomorrow, Sanders would edge out Clinton in Iowa and beat her in New Hampshire by 10 points. Nationally, he has cut Clintons lead from an impregnable 46 points to a crumbling 21 points in just two months.
But even those metrics dont convey the extent of the Sanders phenomenon. At Clinton events, campaign staffers section off floor space before her speeches to make her crowds look densely packed. Sanders needs no barriers. His audiences are authentically huge28,000 in Oregon, 11,000 in Arizona, 7,500 in Maine. His volunteer army, meanwhile, though mostly self-organized online, numbers more than 182,000 people spread out from rural Alaska to the Florida Keys, people who have asked the campaign how to improvise events, knock on doors and spread the gospel from campus quad to living room to farmers market.
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This is not just a campaign, says Sanders. It is a movement, a revolution. He is not only after delegates; he plans to raise the political consciousness. Contrast this with the message Clinton conveyed during a meeting this summer with a group of activists. Consummate political engineer, virtuoso of the knobs and dials of public opinion, Clinton said, Look, I dont believe you change hearts. I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. David Axelrod, the onetime guru to Barack Obama, brutally mocked the plodding story line. Hillary: Live With It, tweeted Axelrod, is no rallying cry.
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This appears in the September 28, 2015 issue of TIME.
http://time.com/4038080/the-gospel-of-bernie/
Catherina
(35,568 posts)think
(11,641 posts)For the better...
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)The Powers That Be won't want to admit that by having the M$M choose him.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Tweeted this.
https://twitter.com/madfloridian
Catherina
(35,568 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,372 posts)Thanks for the thread, Catherina.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Catherina
(35,568 posts)Hillary supporters like my mom who don't do the net can't miss it. Once she reads that Bernie is doing that well, she'll drop Hillary like a hot potato because she loves everything we tell her about Bernie but thinks he can't win. She also has this weird mindset that it's Hillary's turn, whatever than means. When we, her kids, were campaigning for Obama, she thought he should have waited out of *respect* and wouldn't be able to win. Everything I ever needed to know about Rezko, I heard from her and HRC people at DU. Then Obama started winning and she jumped on the Obama train never to look back. Now she's back on the Hillary train but I expect a repeat performance from her because Bernie stands for all the principles she imbued in us, and the ones she believes in.
Thank you Time.
senz
(11,945 posts)which isn't a bad thing in a mom. Hope the Time piece opens her eyes to this good man. Let us know!
Catherina
(35,568 posts)She's very issues oriented
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Why does a missionary venture out among the heathen? Bernard Sanders, a paint sellers son from Flatbush, an early-60s campus radical, a rumpled transplant to progressive Vermont who worked his way gradually up a small ladder in a small state to become the unlikely embodiment of a very large yearningleads with his heart and his sermons. He seeks conversions, not just votes.
If that strikes you as insufficiently calculating, you are starting to understand Bernies momentum. And to understand the Sanders surge is to understand the spirit of 2016. Look around at the candidates who are stumbling and fumbling toward the first balloting less than five months away. Republican Jeb Bush of the White House Bushes learned to count delegates when most kids were still counting fireflies. Democrat Hillary Clinton is part of a family that once commissioned a poll to choose a family vacation that would endear them to voters. So far, calculation is getting them nowhere. The surging candidatesrampant Donald Trump, novice Ben Carson and retro Bernie Sandersrepresent the opposite. Slickness is out, conviction is in.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)From same article.
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)Yep. That's her perfect slogan.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)"Democrat Hillary Clinton is part of a family that once commissioned a poll to choose a family vacation that would endear them to voters."
How could anything be phonier and more crassly calculating than that?
Maybe this, but it's a hell of a close call.
ETA
frylock
(34,825 posts)Catherina
(35,568 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)at a strange angle, doesn't it?
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Thanks, Catherina!
MisterP
(23,730 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)It is such a surprise. Hope it makes a difference.
Thanks for posting it, Catherina!