I remember the Kennedy Nixon TV debates. Kennedy had that open face
look of someone grandma might buy a new roof for her house from.
Nixon looked like a Hood.
Part of it was the fact that he had a heavy five o'clock shadow, so he
had a sort of dirty look. Part of it was simply that Nixon was not
photogenic.
But it did put us into a new phase of political campaigning. Not only
did you have to sound attractive to the voters, you had to look
attractive, too. I hear many times from older clients that they vote
for so and so based on his looks.
Gads!!!
Carl Jarvis
On 4/8/16, Charles Krugman <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
actually those were a few years before my time so I only remember hearing
about them. I didn't really think about them but I guess they were the first
time candidates debated on TV.
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Ventura
Sent: Sunday, April 3, 2016 3:32 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
Don't forget the Kennedy-Nixon debates.
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Sunday, April 3, 2016 12:34 AM
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Questions For Sanders Campaign and His Youthful Supporters
well they have said that the whole campaigning has changed after Nixon was
elected tohis first term when much of the campaigning relied very heavily on
the use of television. It has changed the whole method of campaigning and
message delivery.
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Vieni
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 6:48 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 hadn't read about people criticizing his style, although I have read
criticisms of Hillary's style. But the criticisms of style are a function of
contemporary society in which superficial characteristics and appearance
appear to be more important to people than substance. The emphasis on it
came with TV and with the advertising industries, public relations, becoming
predominant in campaigning. There's nothing slick or glossy or youthful or
modern about Sanders.
Miriam
________________________________
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Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 6:04 AM
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Sanders has to take some responsibility for marginalizing himself by this
method of presentation. At times he comes across as abrasive and smarky in a
manner that does not set well with many rank and file voters that I have
contact with. and again I am not talking about party activists or diehard
Hillary supporters. I realize that Sanders is down for his cause but he
might get more support using honey instead of vinegar.
Chuck
From: Alice Dampman Humel <mailto:alicedh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 3:34 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump and Clinton's Big Night Poses Hard
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He's already been so incredibly and infuriatingly marginalized by the media
even as a Democrat.just imagine if he were out of that arena all by himself
as an independent.he wouldn't even be on the radar screen. They treat him
like a cute child, trotting out his naive little ideas for the grownups.
Hardly anyone ever speaks of him as the democratic candidate that will run
against the Republicrap. They have not taken him seriously.just as on the
flip side, no one took Trump seriously, and look what a monster has been
created.1930s Germany, anyone? No one took that little madman seriously,
either.and look what happened. Well, Santayana said it best, and here we
still are, running on that old hamster wheel in our big cage.
On Mar 25, 2016, at 6:07 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Because, if he had run as an inependent, no one would have heard his ideas.
He would have gotten absolutely no coverage in the Media. There would have
been no debates, no discussion at all, to move the party to the left aside
from Elizabeth Warren. And Warren can't do it alone. No one whom I've asked
here on Long Island, has a clue as to who Jill Stein is. Lately, they at
least have heard that Sanders is running and that there's an alternative to
Clinton. I haven't talked to one person who plans to vote for Clinton. I
have talked to some who plan not to vote at all because they don't know that
there's any alternative to her and I've met a few Trump supporters.
What I
fervently hope is that if Hillary wins the nomination, the movement that
Sanders has started will continue to work for change and that he will
continue to be part of that movement and, perhaps, work jointly with Jill
Stein.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Frank Ventura
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 5:24 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
Carl, yes your cynicism detecter is belting out Stairway to Heaven.
I agree
with all you have said below and you can even substitute Stein for Sanders
in the parts about the ruling class and their political assasinations. Even
more to the point if the Democratic party is so evil to some folks why is
there no outcry from those very same folks for Sanders to leave the party
and run as an independent... Hmmm... Maybe they have use for those "party
loyalists" that they piss upon after all.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 10:38 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
My my my, Frank. Do I detect just a whisper of cynicism?
Nonetheless, tomorrow I will trot off to the Quilcene high school to
participate in our caucus and cast my lot with Bernie Sanders. And when we
get past the Democratic Party freezing Sanders out, I will most probably go
fishing during the general election.
So far as I'm concerned, the Democratic Party is the Republican Party.
The last time I went Democrat and voted for a moderate, he turned out to be
a corporate man in a dark skin. So I voted for Jill Stein in the
2012
election. And we did not wind up with some crazy Republican.
We wound up with an inept Democrat. But worse than that, Obama has the
blood of thousands...maybe millions, of innocent people on his Liberal
hands.
Which brings me back to my vote for Bernie. My vote for Bernie Sanders is a
Fool's Mission. If he did manage to win the Brass Ring, he would find
himself in exactly the same place Barak Obama is in.
And I don't mean the Oval Office. I mean he would find himself facing a
solid block of Sanders haters. Bernie has the entire Ruling Class waiting
to chew him up. Even his careful avoidance of any plan to disengage from
our foolish wars, will not save him. Indeed, within days of swearing to God
and All, he will be forced to stand by, while more drones go fluttering off
to the Killing Fields, the playgrounds of Muslim children.
We can continue sacrificing our fellow men and women to the service of this
Corporate Capitalist Empire, only to watch them cave in or be chewed up and
spat out. It's the system that must be changed. We working class folks
have been frozen out of real participation for many years...maybe forever.
But in order to form a new and more inclusive government, we will need to
figure out what to do with the one that is in our way. And sending Bernie
into the ring is not the answer. So, while I feel I have no stake in this
game, I'll vote for Bernie Sanders because it is my way of making a small,
quiet protest to the two-headed monster that keeps all the marbles in the
hands of the Ruling Class.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/24/16, Frank Ventura <frank.ventura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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-----
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[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-----
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Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 2:07 PM
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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 <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Trump andClinton's Big Night Poses Hard Questions For Sanders Campaign and His
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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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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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