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Positive Election Outlook Has Bernie Sanders Grinning
“We’re feeling really good about New Hampshire,” he said. “It kind of blows me away the number of people we have coming up, who are prepared to volunteer for the campaign. We’re going to do well in New Hampshire and Iowa, and if we win those two states, I think we’ll do quite well on Super Tuesday, and we’ve got a path to a victory.” He chuckled, his lined face bathed in the light of several TV cameras. “Welcome to the political revolution, guys.”
Sanders has good reason to feel confident. For weeks, polls have shown him several points ahead of Hillary Clinton — despite her almost universal name recognition. He’s also been drawing bigger crowds across the state. Among voters under 45 years old, his lead is even wider. This past Sunday night, his town hall at the University of New Hampshire in Durham drew about five times as many people as Hillary Clinton attracted to a forum at the same campus two days before.
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19-year-old Elijah Kendrick, the youth coordinator for the Manchester NAACP, told ThinkProgress he is “definitely” voting for Bernie Sanders, saying: “He speaks for us. He’s trying to protect us, I feel like. He wants to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. He called out Donald Trump for his racism.”
Explaining his support, Manchester native Matt Lawrence cited Sanders’ repeated confrontations with activists from the Black Lives Matter movement, who repeatedly protested during his speeches earlier this year, and motivated the candidate to release a comprehensive agenda to achieve racial justice.
“You know what he did? He turned around and addressed it, and said, ‘You’re right. There is an issue with racial discrimination here in the country that has yet to be addressed,'” Lawrence told ThinkProgress. “I think Hillary needs to take a stronger, more firm stance on it. She’s said it’s a problem, but that’s really all she said.”
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/09/23/3704104/feeling-the-bern-the-secret-to-sanders-success-in-new-hampshire/
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the name recognition factor.
Peace to you.
for Uncle Joe!
