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Here's How Bernie Sanders Is Planning to Win South Carolina
This quieter approach represents a significant departure for a campaign that built out a national reputation, and broadened its surprisingly large fundraising base with a series of summer mega-rallies, drawing tens of thousands of supporters to packed arenas from Los Angeles to Madison, Wisconsin. In South Carolina, though, Sanders won't be preaching to the choir.
Instead, officials in South Carolina say, he'll need to sit, listen and hope they'll chat with him after services.
"This about recognizing [the church] is a core organization within any African-American community when communication at large is desired," State Rep. Joe Neal (D) told Mic. Neal is an influential character in Columbia who made national headlines during the fight to remove the Confederate battle flag from the statehouse grounds earlier this summer.
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"If [Sanders] is going to engage that community, then he has to start where the communication lines run," said the lawmaker from Richland. "They run through the churches, that means that the ministers play a tremendous role in communicating about all things. Right now, a lot of them don't know who he is, so he needs to find a way around that and introduce himself."
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Robert Greene II, a political scholar and doctoral candidate at the University of South Carolina, also believes Sanders' most viable route would take him through the pews of the politically powerful religious community.
"The black church, to this day, still serves as an important political public space for African-Americans," Greene told Mic. "At the least, Sanders has to find a way to insert himself in that space and make himself look like a viable candidate, because if you look at most of the issues he's most passionate about, namely economic inequality, these are issues that are brought up all the time in the church.
http://mic.com/articles/125633/bernie-sanders-2016-election-south-carolina
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