2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAs Super Tuesday Gets Underway, Bernie Sanders DIGS IN For The LONG HAUL
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Following a big primary loss in South Carolina over the weekend, Bernie Sanders promised that he was in the race for the long hauland then subsequently raised $6 million in one day to amass a total of $42 million in February alone. That's the most any presidential candidate has raised in a single month in 2016, including Hillary Clinton, his chief rival for the nomination.
Tuesday is one of the biggest primary days of the election season, with voting taking place in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming, and American Samoa.
Recent polls have shown Clinton leading in those states, but more optimistic news for Sanders' campaign came Tuesday morning with a new poll showing that Sanders would win against GOP frontrunner Donald Trump by 55 to 43 percentan even bigger margin than Clinton, who would win against Trump by 52 to 44 percent, according to the CNN/ORC survey of 920 registered voters. Sanders on Tuesday reiterated his attack against Clinton's reliance on big money donors, stating,
His campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, noted that Clinton finished out the month with private fundraising events in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and added, "Our supporters are a firewall protecting Bernie from the Clinton campaigns wealthiest donors and super PACs. But with the amount of high-dollar fundraisers she's held this month, it's hard to see how we possibly raised more money than Secretary Clinton in February."
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http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/01/super-tuesday-gets-underway-sanders-digs-long-haul
senz
(11,945 posts)His goal is to start a political revolution in this country.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)For an expanded depth of this logic, see today's Democracy Now! Amy Goodman's interview with Robert Reich.
I think few on DU will know the true nature of said Revolution that Bernie Sanders is leading. It IS happening. The way I see it, we have to go beyond the football game mentality here so many of us have when it comes to TRYING TO TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES.... and GETTING DRAGGED INTO NONSENSE.
The Revolution MAY be televised, but since that's the case, the truth about it is being held up by a bunch of corporately controlled pundits.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Got two texts and a phone call today reminding me. I didn't need reminding!
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,969 posts)We want to go where he is leading.
And, like him, we are in this for the long haul.