I think that he's voted with the Democrats. However, he has occasionally
voted against a bill when he believed that it included clauses that were
damaging to a specific group of people like immigrants. I've read specifics,
but can't remember them. There was that eight hour speech he gave to attempt
to prevent passage of a bill. Does anyone remember what bill that was?
Miriam
________________________________
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Krugman
(Redacted sender "ckrugman" for DMARC)
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 4:05 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses Hard
Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
I'm not familiar with the specifics of his voting record although it
generally is with the Democrats. His voting record on various issues has
been discussed in other threads as well as this one.
Chuck
From: Richard Driscoll <mailto:llocsirdsr@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 1:40 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses Hard
Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
Chuck:
What does his voting record look like? Is it Independent in nature? Or
what?
Richard
On 4/11/2016 1:34 AM, Charles Krugman (Redacted sender ckrugman for DMARC)
wrote:
technically the Democratic party is allowing him to run as a
Democrat. His voter registration in Vermont still shows Sanders as an
independent and while he has caucused with the Democratic Party he claims no
real loyalty to the party. Where the democratic Party welcomes people that
actually change their party and actual re-register this is not the same
thing. While I have never voted or thrown my vote away as a protest vote
because I just don't believe in what third parties that we have in existence
stand for I do like labels and I stand for party loyalty. The bottom line is
I guess I just don't personally feel that disenfranchised and I am not a
cause voter. However, that option is open to anyone when they enter the
voting booth.
Chuck
From: joe harcz Comcast <mailto:joeharcz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 4:30 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses
Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
He joined the Party for what that is worth Chuck! He is running in
the Democratic Party.
By the way both Parties have welcomed "defectors" from the other
Party. For example, Republicans took in a swath of Southern Democratts from
Thurmond to Graham and many of them ran as Republicans in their primaries.
Democrats welcomed in folks like Arlen Spector even recently.
This said, and while Irespect you highly I disagree with your core
contentions. I simply disagree.
I vote, and organize, personally not on Party loyalty, but rather on
issues.
While by far the bulk of folks I've worked for from John Glenn, to
Tom Harkin, to Obama in presidential campaigns were/are Democrats I have
been known to pull the lever for members of other parties especially if my
local or state Democrats were proven to be corrupt and against ourinterests.
Oh, I almost forgot my active support and my role as a Democratic
Party state delegate while I was 19 for McGovern.
Forgive the ramble but often the Party or individuals within it
haven't been loyal to us, and most especially those of us with disabilities.
Now, I'm not per say a third party guy in most cases but I've sure
been known to vote Green or even some other party in protest as a sort of a
vote for "none of the above".
And I'll tell you their is a social democratic wing in the
Democratic Party. And if they split off and created a third party I'd join
it in a heartbeat.
But, on this you might disagree with me.
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To: <mailto:blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2016 11:03 AM
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night
Poses Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
The issue is that technically Sanders does not claim to be a
Democrat. He is registered as an "independent" Senator although he caucuses
with the democrats. I feel let down by the Democratic party because it has
allowed Sanders to take over as an independent and as a long standing party
member I strongly believe that does make a difference. This is why I say
that I feel let down by the Democratic party as this undermines party
membership and loyalty. For those of you who are members of third parties
would you be satisfied if an outsider someone who might be an ally on some
issues is given carte blanch opportunities to run without actually being a
party member? I believe that it is rationale like this that causes us to get
stuck with "top Two" primaries like we now have shoved down our throats in
California.
Chuck
Chuck
From: Alice Dampman Humel <mailto:alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 4:45 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night
Poses Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
Chuck,
I seem to be missing messages, so I only saw yours now below
Frank's reply.
I copy from your message:
"I feel that as a loyal longstanding Democrat I have been
let down by the democratic party when they gave him a carte blanche pass to
run and say whatever he wants. While I sympathize with people who are
struggling economically I don't think that Bernie Sanders is the answer"
You feel let down by the Democratic Party because they
allowed a candidate to speak his outh without muzzling him or otherwise
dictating what he is allowed to say, restricting what he can declare his
platform to be? I don't understand that.
If Sanders does not provide the possibility of an answer to
the things he has outlined as big problems, in his candidacy, where do you
think any other possibility lies?
And, another question, if he is indeed still technically an
independent in Vermont, so what? And I do believe he is the Democratic
senator from Vermont, but you may be aware of some technical detail that
I"ve missed.
Alice
On Mar 29, 2016, at 4:51 PM, Frank Ventura
<frank.ventura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chuck, while my heart wants to disagree with you my
head reluctantly acknowledges that you probably are correct.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Krugman
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 5:29 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's
Big Night Poses Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful
Supporters
Well Frank, this is how I've always felt about
Bernie and Jill. While Sanders has caucused with the democrats in the Senate
he is still technically registered as an independent in Vermont as I
understand it. I feel that as a loyal longstanding Democrat I have been let
down by the democratic party when they gave him a carte blanche pass to run
and say whatever he wants. While I sympathize with people who are struggling
economically I don't think that Bernie Sanders is the answer.
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Ventura
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 1:08 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's
Big Night Poses Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful
Supporters
Chuck, while I did vote for Sanders in the primary,
I am already regretting it. Sadly, Sanders is starting to sound more and
more like Jill Stein; that is someone who merely wants to derail the
democratic party and put a Republican in the oval office out of some sort of
protest. The sad truth is that after Stein and Sanders get their jollies
with their protest against the mainstream Democratic party they will go back
to their comfy suburban homes and sit back with a glass of wine; while the
rest of us working class suffer the onslaught of President Trump or
President Cruz and all the horrors for our nation that it has brought. So a
year from now when President Trump's death squads are roaming the streets
killing the working class Bernie and Jill will be sitting back watching it
all on Foxnews while their private security forces guard their nicely
manicured lawns.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Charles Krugman
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 2:00 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's
Big Night Poses Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful
Supporters
Miriam, in 2008 you voted for a typical Chicago
politician. Spending time in Chicago growing up in the sixties I found the
political machine in power fascinating. My problem is that I just don't like
or agree with Bernie Sanders and don't believe he is electable nor does he
possess the image of an American president. While There are lots of things I
didn't like about the Clinton Administration and I believe that Hillary was
an active participant in the decisionmaking process and since I don't
support the extreme principles of third parties I feel that in this election
I'm voting for the lesser of the evils. I guess that there is still part of
me that buys in to the capitalistic mentality.
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Vieni
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 11:43 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's
Big Night Poses Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful
Supporters
I live in New York which, probably, will continue to
be a blue state.
However, whatever kind of state it is, my vote, if
Bernie isn't the Democratic candidate, will go to Jill Stein. It won't go to
Trump and it won't go to the Clinton machine. In 2008, I thought I was
voting for a Democratic candidate who represented the values in which I
believed. I knew that he was a bit to the right in terms of Afghanistan, but
I tought he was a Liberal Democrat who believed in the rule of law, in open
government. I discovered that I'd voted for an opportunist, an elitist, for
a President who would ignore the constitution whenever it got in the way of
his appeasement of the security state, of a President who was ready to cut
social security benefits, and who made unacceptable bargains with
Republicans before it was necessary to do so. And he is the more
Ppogressive of the two. If I vote for Hillary, I'd be voting for someone
whose Neo Liberal policies are more warlike, who is even more comfortable
with the elites, who will increase the US appeasement of Israel, whose
concern about African Americans is pure fiction, and who uses her femaleness
as a means to gain support from femininsts. I can't, in good consciience do
it. No, I don't want Trump as President. But the fact that Clinton uses
whatever words , she thinks, will get votes from the Democratic base,
doesn't reassure me. I listened to Robert Sheer's discussion with Thomas
Frank this morning on an audio clip on Truthdig. Are you aware that Bill
Clinton was about to privatize social security? What stopped him? The Monica
Lewinsky scandal. These Democrats, aside from social issues, LGBT rights,
abortion rights, are not anymore the party of the working people.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Charles Krugman (Redacted sender "ckrugman" for DMARC)
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 2:07 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's
Big Night Poses Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful
Supporters
whether we might like it or not any vote that
doesn't go to Hillary including those on principle to minor candidates could
very strongly result in the trump presidency that no thinking person wants.
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Vieni
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 8:21 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's
Big Night Poses Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful
Supporters
Well, voting for Clinton means voting for more of
what we have now which means more wealth going to the 1%, more power for
trans national corporations, larger even less regulated banks, and an
escalation of war.
Voting for trump may very well mean and out and out
war at home on minorities along with what I outlined above. One can't tell
what Trump will actdually do in terms of international policy because his
statements are contradictory. I caught a short interview with the author of
a biography of Trump on NPR last night. Briefly, he said Trump never reads
books, does not focus on one subject when you talk with him, but thinks just
the way he sounds in his speeches, and his basically and ego maniac,
although he didn't use that term. I can't visualize myself voting for
Hillary because I can't think of any positives in her favor. But certainly,
the prospect of a Trump Presidency is unthinkable.
Miriam
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 10:27 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's
Big Night Poses Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful
Supporters
As the World turns...so turn firm resolves.
Of course it's early yet, but winning the primary
appears to be slipping from the old, experienced hands of Senator Bernie
Sanders.
To date I have held to my resolve to vote for
Sanders, and then if he does not win the Party nomination, to vote for Jill
Stein, of the Green Party.
But that was before the Republicans trotted out
their Party's Best, the Clown Crew.
And, as we all guffawed and chuckled over their
noisy sideshow, an awful thing happened. One of the clowns began to look
like something out of the 1940's. A full blown Fascist!
Ranting and raving and telling one big lie after
another, Donald Trump rose like the Phoenix, out of the ashes of the Third
Reich.
Despite the Republican Party's denial that he has
the popular Party support, Trump stomps about, stirring up the rank and
file, and winning in state after state.
We now are upon the brink of National disaster. One
direction leads to a Fascist State, and the other leads to a Corporate
State. And we have only ourselves to blame.
If the choice comes down to Clinton or Trump, or
even Clinton or Cruz, we will need to decide if we hold to our original plan
to support Stein, or to "throw away" our vote in an effort to block the
takeover of our emerging Corporate State by the Fascist State. What a
choice!
Just a fair warning that I am not ruling out a vote
for Hillary Clinton.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/16/16, Miriam Vieni <
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Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses Hard
Questions For Sanders
Campaign and His Youthful Supporters By
Steven Rosenfeld [1] /
AlterNet [2] March 15, 2016 Bernie Sanders'
historic and
expectation-surpassing bid for the
Democratic presidential nomination
ran into hard reality in several pivotal
primary contests Tuesday,
where he could not break Hillary Clinton's
hold on voters in several
critical battleground states needed to win
in the fall-notably Ohio
and Florida.
While Sanders supporters will point to his
narrow victory in Missouri,
and overwhelming support among independents
who voted in the
Democratic primary, Clinton's victories in
those fall battleground
states-as well as South Carolina and
Illinois-means that it is
virtually impossible for Sanders to win the
delegates needed [3] for
the party's nomination. That fact
undoubtedly will take days to seep
into his remarkable grassroots campaign,
where it remains to be seen
how Sanders will continue his quest or align
himself with Clinton-who
he's criticized for some stances but praised
as a person of integrity.
The backdrop for that as-yet unknown
calculation is the deeply
disconcerting continuing rise of Donald
Trump toward the Republican
nomination, who has continued to amass a
delegate lead-winning in
Florida, Illinois, South Carolina and
Missouri. Although Ohio Gov.
John Kasich beat Trump in his home state,
his first victory on 2016,
his chances-based on the GOP's delegate
nomination math-are an even
longer shot than Sanders catching up with
Clinton and wresting the
nomination. Under the current Republican
National Committee rules, a
candidate needs to have won at least eight
states to have their name
placed in nomination for the presidency.
That renders Kasich's pledge
to supporters that he will win this fall as
little more than campaign
magical thinking.
"Only one campaign has beaten Donald Trump
over and over and over again,"
said Sen. Ted Cruz, also striking a defiant
tone despite losing in
every state Tuesday, including by several
thousand votes in Missouri
to
Trump.
Cruz recited his pledge to recast the
federal government and judiciary
in the most ideological right-wing mold
possible, go after enemies
abroad, and said he was the only alternative
to Trump. "Starting
tomorrow morning, there is a clear choice,"
Cruz said, posturing
before supporters in Texas.
Trump's victory in Florida prompted Marco
Rubio to suspend his
campaign, telling his backers that it was
not in "God's plans" for him
to win "in
2016
or maybe ever." He also implored Republicans
to reject the hateful
politics pedaled by Trump, saying, "I ask
the American people, 'Do not
give into the fear. Do not give into the
frustration.'"
Tuesday's top two storylines-Trump's rise
and Clinton all-but ending
Sanders' chances of winning sufficient
delegates to be the
nominee-came together in her remarks, where
she underscored that she
had won fair and square but tried to reach
out to Sanders' team. "Our
campaign has won more votes than any other
campaign-Democrat or
Republican," began Clinton, in remarks from
Palm Beach, "and I want to
congratulate Sen. Sanders for the vigorous
campaign he has waged."
Clinton said she needed the support of
Democrats across the country,
and then focused on Trump but cited many
issues raised by Sanders.
"Tonight, it is clearer than ever that this
may be one of the most
consequential campaigns of our lifetimes,"
she said. "The next
president will walk into the oval office
next year in January, and sit
down at that desk, and start making
decisions that will affect the
lives and the livelihoods of everyone in
this country and indeed,
everyone on this planet."
Clinton said the next president has three
major challenges: making
positive differences in people's lives,
keeping America safe and
bringing the country together. The first
example she gave was a direct
nod to Sanders and his popularity with
voters under age 35. "Young
people across America struggling under the
weight of student debt find
it difficult to imagine the futures they
want," she said, "and they
deserve a president who will relieve them of
that burden and help
future generations go to college without
borrowing a dime." Clinton
continued with another issue that he raised
first. "And you know
grandparents who worry about retirement
deserve a president who will
protect and then expand Social Security for
those who need it most-not
cut or privatize it."
Her to-do list continued: affordable child
care; paid family leave;
equal pay for equal work for women; good
jobs with rising incomes-in
construction, manufacturing, small business
and renewable energy;
standing up for workers and the middle
class-"not China, not Wall
Street and not overpaid corporate
executives." She said that she knows
how to make these promises become realities,
and then slammed Trump,
especially his anti-immigrant and
anti-Muslim stances, and his embrace
of torture and threatening adversaries.
"That doesn't make him strong, it makes him
wrong," she said.
"We have to take on all forms of inequality
and discrimination,"
Clinton said. "Together, we have to defend
all of our rights-civil
rights and voting rights; worker's rights
and women's rights; LGBT
rights and rights for people with
disabilities. And that starts with
standing with President Obama when he
nominates a justice to the
Supreme Court."
Whether or not Sanders' supporters will buy
Clinton's words and see
how much he has sharpened her embrace and
articulation of a
progressive agenda remains to be seen. There
is no doubt that the
short-term messaging from the Sanders'
campaign will be that they will
keep plowing ahead and fight for delegates
in the remaining states. As
of Tuesday, half the states have voted. The
math has Clinton with 300
more [3] pledged delegates than Sanders.
That is not counting
super-delegates, the elected officers and
party officials, where she
has 427 to his 26 [3]. Sanders reportedly
spent
$12 million in ads for Tuesday's contests,
compared to Clinton's $7
million.
Many of Sanders' supporters have not been
involved in political
campaigns before, and will have a hard time
immediately processing
Tuesday's results.
But there are some big unanswered questions
about what is next for
them in 2016-and what Clinton will also do
to bring these two
campaigns
together.
Sanders has taken positions that appeal to
the disaffected voters who
have been drawn in by Trump and Cruz. One
can only hope that the
Democratic Party knows it will need the
millions of young economic
progressives to turn out in November. And
they may not unless they
have a candidate they can believe in.
Steven Rosenfeld covers national political
issues for AlterNet,
including America's retirement crisis,
democracy and voting rights,
and campaigns and elections. He is the
author of "Count My Vote: A
Citizen's Guide to Voting"
(AlterNet Books, 2008).
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Questions For Sanders
Campaign and His Youthful Supporters By
Steven Rosenfeld [1] /
AlterNet [2] March 15, 2016 Bernie Sanders'
historic and
expectation-surpassing bid for the
Democratic presidential nomination
ran into hard reality in several pivotal
primary contests Tuesday,
where he could not break Hillary Clinton's
hold on voters in several
critical battleground states needed to win
in the fall-notably Ohio
and Florida.
While Sanders supporters will point to his
narrow victory in Missouri,
and overwhelming support among independents
who voted in the
Democratic primary, Clinton's victories in
those fall battleground
states-as well as South Carolina and
Illinois-means that it is
virtually impossible for Sanders to win the
delegates needed [3] for
the party's nomination. That fact
undoubtedly will take days to seep
into his remarkable grassroots campaign,
where it remains to be seen
how Sanders will continue his quest or align
himself with Clinton-who
he's criticized for some stances but praised
as a person of integrity.
The backdrop for that as-yet unknown
calculation is the deeply
disconcerting continuing rise of Donald
Trump toward the Republican
nomination, who has continued to amass a
delegate lead-winning in
Florida, Illinois, South Carolina and
Missouri. Although Ohio Gov.
John Kasich beat Trump in his home state,
his first victory on 2016,
his chances-based on the GOP's delegate
nomination math-are an even
longer shot than Sanders catching up with
Clinton and wresting the
nomination. Under the current Republican
National Committee rules, a
candidate needs to have won at least eight
states to have their name
placed in nomination for the presidency.
That renders Kasich's pledge
to supporters that he will win this fall as
little more than campaign
magical thinking.
"Only one campaign has beaten Donald Trump
over and over and over again,"
said Sen. Ted Cruz, also striking a defiant
tone despite losing in
every state Tuesday, including by several
thousand votes in Missouri
to
Trump.
Cruz recited his pledge to recast the
federal government and judiciary
in the most ideological right-wing mold
possible, go after enemies
abroad, and said he was the only alternative
to Trump. "Starting
tomorrow morning, there is a clear choice,"
Cruz said, posturing
before supporters in Texas.
Trump's victory in Florida prompted Marco
Rubio to suspend his
campaign, telling his backers that it was
not in "God's plans" for him
to win "in
2016
or maybe ever." He also implored Republicans
to reject the hateful
politics pedaled by Trump, saying, "I ask
the American people, 'Do not
give into the fear. Do not give into the
frustration.'"
Tuesday's top two storylines-Trump's rise
and Clinton all-but ending
Sanders' chances of winning sufficient
delegates to be the
nominee-came together in her remarks, where
she underscored that she
had won fair and square but tried to reach
out to Sanders' team. "Our
campaign has won more votes than any other
campaign-Democrat or
Republican," began Clinton, in remarks from
Palm Beach, "and I want to
congratulate Sen. Sanders for the vigorous
campaign he has waged."
Clinton said she needed the support of
Democrats across the country,
and then focused on Trump but cited many
issues raised by Sanders.
"Tonight, it is clearer than ever that this
may be one of the most
consequential campaigns of our lifetimes,"
she said. "The next
president will walk into the oval office
next year in January, and sit
down at that desk, and start making
decisions that will affect the
lives and the livelihoods of everyone in
this country and indeed,
everyone on this planet."
Clinton said the next president has three
major challenges: making
positive differences in people's lives,
keeping America safe and
bringing the country together. The first
example she gave was a direct
nod to Sanders and his popularity with
voters under age 35. "Young
people across America struggling under the
weight of student debt find
it difficult to imagine the futures they
want," she said, "and they
deserve a president who will relieve them of
that burden and help
future generations go to college without
borrowing a dime." Clinton
continued with another issue that he raised
first. "And you know
grandparents who worry about retirement
deserve a president who will
protect and then expand Social Security for
those who need it most-not
cut or privatize it."
Her to-do list continued: affordable child
care; paid family leave;
equal pay for equal work for women; good
jobs with rising incomes-in
construction, manufacturing, small business
and renewable energy;
standing up for workers and the middle
class-"not China, not Wall
Street and not overpaid corporate
executives." She said that she knows
how to make these promises become realities,
and then slammed Trump,
especially his anti-immigrant and
anti-Muslim stances, and his embrace
of torture and threatening adversaries.
"That doesn't make him strong, it makes him
wrong," she said.
"We have to take on all forms of inequality
and discrimination,"
Clinton said. "Together, we have to defend
all of our rights-civil
rights and voting rights; worker's rights
and women's rights; LGBT
rights and rights for people with
disabilities. And that starts with
standing with President Obama when he
nominates a justice to the
Supreme Court."
Whether or not Sanders' supporters will buy
Clinton's words and see
how much he has sharpened her embrace and
articulation of a
progressive agenda remains to be seen. There
is no doubt that the
short-term messaging from the Sanders'
campaign will be that they will
keep plowing ahead and fight for delegates
in the remaining states. As
of Tuesday, half the states have voted. The
math has Clinton with 300
more [3] pledged delegates than Sanders.
That is not counting
super-delegates, the elected officers and
party officials, where she
has 427 to his 26 [3]. Sanders reportedly
spent
$12 million in ads for Tuesday's contests,
compared to Clinton's $7
million.
Many of Sanders' supporters have not been
involved in political
campaigns before, and will have a hard time
immediately processing
Tuesday's results.
But there are some big unanswered questions
about what is next for
them in 2016-and what Clinton will also do
to bring these two
campaigns
together.
Sanders has taken positions that appeal to
the disaffected voters who
have been drawn in by Trump and Cruz. One
can only hope that the
Democratic Party knows it will need the
millions of young economic
progressives to turn out in November. And
they may not unless they
have a candidate they can believe in.
Steven Rosenfeld covers national political
issues for AlterNet,
including America's retirement crisis,
democracy and voting rights,
and campaigns and elections. He is the
author of "Count My Vote: A
Citizen's Guide to Voting"
(AlterNet Books, 2008).
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