Here Are 5 Awesome Things That Have Happened To Bernie Sanders Since He Announced - RawStory

[WillyT]

Here are 5 awesome things that have happened to Bernie Sanders since he announced
Michael Arria, AlterNet/RawStory
06 May 2015 at 08:35 ET

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1.) He has 175,000 pledge volunteers already: Sanders told Rachel Maddow, “I think the main thing is Rachel, is that we have a message that is resonating all across this country. And that is, the income and wealth inequality in this country is grotesque. Ninety-nine percent of all new income goes to the top one percent. The top one-tenth of one percent owns as much wealth as the bottom ninety percent, and meanwhile, the middle-class in this country continues to disappear. I think people want a candidate who is prepared to take on the billionaire class and say you know what, this country belongs to all of us, and not to a handful of billionaire families.”

2.) He raised $1.5 million during the first day of his campaign: According to the Sanders campaign, 35,000 donors gave an average of $43.54 apiece. Even the Washington Post had to admit, “It is a surprisingly heavy haul for a candidate who some in the Democratic chattering class have cast off as a gadfly and viewed as unable to wrest the nomination from the overwhelming favorite, Hillary Rodham Clinton.”

3.) He just schooled Rand Paul on economics during a Senate hearing: While debating the state of senior nutrition...

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[underpants]

1. Marking.

God this phone sucks

[Wilms]

2. ^

[Jefferson23]

3. Yes: ...income and wealth inequality in this country is grotesque. K&R

[Eleanors38]

4. He'll get my money.^^^

[merrily]

5. K & R