AP BIG story: Defying conventions, Sanders emerges as a Clinton challenger

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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., center, accompanied by, from left, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, and Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., speaks about labor issues, Thursday, June 18, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)


http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7dfb07d5079144f0b4f0615d3e1db3e6/defying-conventions-sanders-emerges-clinton-challenger

By KEN THOMAS

INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — Bernie Sanders likes to call it "practicing democracy." He doesn't take the stage to a blaring soundtrack. He doesn't have a teleprompter or a phalanx of Secret Service agents surrounding him. But when his Brooklyn accent booms out at a campaign stop in rural Iowa, heads nod along in approval.

"What I'm doing in this campaign is trying to tell the people the truth — but a truth which is not heard a whole lot in Washington or discussed a lot in the media," Sanders said recently at a picnic in Iowa's Warren County, south of Des Moines.

"So let me lay it out on the table for you," he said. "You're living in a country today which has more wealth and income inequality than any major industrialized nation on earth."

In a race for the Democratic presidential nomination with Hillary Rodham Clinton, the blunt talk about the economy and the gap between the rich and poor is working for Sanders. The independent senator from Vermont is an unconventional messenger at a time when many politicians test-drive what they want to say in polls and with focus groups.

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