Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumMaine Caucus: Reporting from my tiny town.
I live in a town of about 700 people, not counting Maritime Academy students, who are gone on break right now.
We had 63 people come into Caucus today. Two folks under 25yo, a few in the 25-35 range, a few more in the 35-45 range (myself included,) but the bulk were over 55. (We have a lot of retirees here, and they are active in politics and civic events. Our chair was looking for a youngster to replace her, a youngster being someone under 75, she said. )
Vote-wise, Hillary had 18 from the absentee ballots to Bernie's 14. But when the attendees were sorted, she had 21 folks on her side of the room to our 42. So Bernie won my town 56-39!! Yay, Bernie!!!
leftcoastmountains
(2,968 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,629 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Many local Green Party people are doing the same for our Primary. I love that!
Mbrow
(1,090 posts)Over the years I've work with a lot of people who went to school there. Good luck!
dana_b
(11,546 posts)Woo hoo!! And thanks for your work!
Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)Trajan
(19,089 posts)Thanks for your awesome story ... yay!
MuseRider
(34,111 posts)in the caucus. They can be kind of a pain. Ours went way over time yesterday but it is what it is and you did great!
I hope this is what they are seeing all over Maine later on.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)Thanks!
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)Go, Bernie...GO!!!
Gwhittey
(1,377 posts)a bunch of BernieBros where there? Ha we can wear that with pride unlike Obama could the ObamaBoy crap. I mean calling black men Boy, even Trump is not that bad.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)jpak
(41,758 posts)One young lady gave a speech that resulted in 2 undecided voters to switch to Bernie and gave him a 1 vote lead over Hillary.
Good to see....
Duval
(4,280 posts)We're retirees and active, also. LOL a youngster under 75!
zentrum
(9,865 posts)
..be able to vote at home?
There's often a systematic non-inclusion of students because of where they reside at election time.
One of the things that needs to change is that students can register to vote in the state of their schools or reallythat we start being able to vote onlineso that young people can vote no matter where they are.
Thanx for the report!
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Feel the Bern!
Seniors for Bernie!
We are a little left out by the complicated technology but we are doing everything we can to get him elected.