It tells us nothing at this point that HRC beats Bernie among women and poc. [View all]

[Ken Burch]

She's been nationally known for years...Bernie is just establishing a national presence. A well-known candidate, in any race, will always outpoll a less well-known candidate. The voters have not made a final judgment on the merits of any of the candidates, and everything is subject to change in every voter's mind.

It's not as though Bernie's had a fair and equal chance and has already been proved to be unworthy of anyone's support. Nor has Bernie been proven to be rejected by any block of voters. It's early days yet.

And it's not as though HRC, other than the fact that she's been a larger presence politically, actually has a better record of concern or of achievement on anti-oppression issues.

Remember, she was a towering figure in the founding of the Democratic Leadership Council...a group that argued that feminists, LGBTQ people, and poc should be dismissed by the Democratic Party as nothing more than "special interests&quot and that her role in creating that group, unlike her role as first lady, is unchallengably a subject of public debate.

If you are a woman, or a person of color, or LGBTQ, or differently abled, or fighting personal oppression on any other front, Bernie, unlike HRC, has never been actively involved in trying to lock you out in the cold politically, and unlike HRC, Bernie has never run, in any race he has ever contested, as a white backlash candidate who appealed to fears of black political advancement(as HRC did when she said "I'm one of you" while campaigning in West Virginia and other white states in 2008).

If you are simply speaking, as you have every right to do, out of concern that your issues may once again be ignored in this race(as they were in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, and by HRC in 2008)you have every right to ask to know where Bernie stands if you aren't aware of his longstanding and uncompromised support of all anti-oppression causes. Everyone accepts that, I think.

(on edit...deleted the last graph...it went in a direction I didn't mean to go on. My bad.)