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Email from Bernie about New York and my comments (cross post from Jackpine Radicals)
Last edited Wed Apr 20, 2016, 10:09 AM - Edit history (2)
Bernie Sanders for President
merrily -
When we started this campaign, we were down almost 50 points in New York — the state where Hillary Clinton was elected to two terms in the U.S. Senate.
We didn’t get the victory we had hoped for this evening, but what’s important is that it looks like we’re going to win a lot more delegates in New York than any state that voted or caucused before tonight.
So what does that mean? Five important states vote one week from tonight, with more delegates at stake than Hillary Clinton led by coming into tonight. And if we do well next Tuesday, we remain in a position to take the pledged delegate lead when almost 700 delegates are up for grabs on June 7.
As you read this, thousands of supporters are responding to tonight’s results with contributions because they believe we can win. I need to know if I can count on you to add yours.
Match your previous $-- contribution to our campaign tonight, and we are going to have the resources we need to do very well next week and to take the pledged delegate lead on June 7.
From the day we started this campaign, the corporate media counted us out. The political establishment and financial elite organized against us. But every great movement in American history faced many of the same obstacles and eventually won because of a simple, timeless human truth: when people come together, when they stand together even through adversity, they win.
And so will we.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders
merrily needs you to know some stuff:
With the wind at Obama's back, including media and many Party PTB, Obama got a smaller share of the NY vote than did Sanders.
Hillary/Obama in New York 2008: Hillary 57.4% to Obama 40.3% while she defeated Bernie in New York by 57.9%
Hillary/Sanders in New York 2016 Hillary 57.9% to Sanders 42.1% I think Obama was ahead in general going into New York, though.
This is about a Presidential primary, but it is also about so much more.
[url]http://jackpineradicals.org/showthread.php?5448-Sea-changes-in-US-politics-thanks-to-Senator-Sanders-and-his-supporters[/url]
In addition to the sea changes mentioned in the above-linked post, this primary has exposed the corruption of the DNC, some state Democratic parties and the mass media and the lengths to which the PTB will go to protect the status quo. It has also highlighted the absence of democracy inherent in the institution of super delegates and in closed primaries, unreasonable registration deadlines. I believe with all my heart that US politics will either change or people will begin to rise up and change them.
If you give up on Bernie now, you ensure that voters' only choice for the foreseeable the future will be a registered Republican or a registered Republican turned registered Democrat who is not openly racist, homophobic or anti-choice, but who may run a "racially-tinged" political campaign, come out for equal marriage only after the SCOTUS has declared unequal marriage unconstitutional, and offer Constitutional amendments to "compromise" on reproductive choice (or worse, because we are already at what this paragraph describes). Please see also [url]http://jackpineradicals.org/content.php?187-Why-are-Third-Way-Democrats-even-better-for-Wall-Street-than-Republicans-are[/url]
This is not a drill. A real life Presidential primary is going on and we don't get a Mulligan. Many primaries and caucuses (and pledged delegates) remain. [url]http://www.mytimetovote.com/2016-Primary-Election-Dates.html[/url] Another DUer did the math. http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511789133 And a movement is also going on, as stated above.
While votes were being counted in that disenfranchising mess last night, Sanders was campaigning in Pennsylvania. Connecticut is next. We need to focus on donating, phonebanking and GOTV in the remaining primary and caucus states, not on posting or reading negative dreck.
Tips on phonebanking from home (or anywhere) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280172731
The donation link below. If your state has not had its primary yet, go to campaign website and see what else you can do to help GOTV in your state.
Minimum donation is $1. This is the donation link. [url]https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/jackpineradicals4bernie[/url]
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This is not a drill. There is a real life Presidential primary going on. Connecticut is next and we don't get a Mulligan. We need to focus on donating, phonebanking and GOTV, not negative dreck from DU's Hillary supporters..
Tips on phonebanking from home (or anywhere) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280172731
The donation link is in the OP. Minimum donation is $1. If your state has not had its primary yet, go to campaign website and see what you can do.
Now that I think of it, I am going to add some of this to the OP. Thanks!
and donated on behalf of myself and my lovely Green party canvassing partner. She couldn't vote but she worked herself to exhaustion climbing steep driveways all day yesterday. And for days before that we trod through many scattered neighborhoods.
P.S. Funny story, we climbed an exceptionally steep driveway in a wealthy neighborhood and ended up chatting with the 70ish Clinton supporting wife of a voter we were trying to contact. She was telling us her her husband couldn't come to the door as his leg was hurting. She went on to say Hilary was the right choice because she had the right experience, and the best ideas. From the other room we could faintly hear her husband say "No she doesn't" and his wife just laughed and said "He's voting for Bernie". Oh, and he's from Brooklyn! 
Me and my partner in a pic we sent to the Sanders supporter who texted me looking to see if I was supporting Sanders, lol.: 
When we started this campaign, I emailed my supporters and said, "This campaign is not about Bernie Sanders. It's about a grassroots movement of Americans standing up and saying: 'Enough is enough. This country and our government belong to all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.'"
I believe that now more than ever.
We still have a path to the nomination, and our plan is to win the pledged delegates in this primary. Next week five states vote, and there are A LOT of delegates up for grabs. I am going to keep fighting for every vote, for every delegate, because each is a statement of support for the values we share. That’s why I have to ask:
Can I count on you to add a $25 contribution to our campaign – right now – to help us win this primary and as a way of saying you will never stop fighting for the ideas that have powered our political revolution?
The truth is that if we stand together, there is no limit to what we can accomplish. We can bring hope to the political process. We can make real change. People should not underestimate us.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders
"a way of saying you will never stop fighting for the ideas that have powered our political revolution"
Yadda, yadda, yadda, I just donated again.
It's up to $18,726 at jackpineradicals.
