Millennials Poll Shows Sanders' Revolution Reshaping US Electorate

[eridani]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/25/millennials-poll-shows-sanders-revolution-reshaping-us-electorate

More importantly, regardless of how Sanders fares in Tuesday's primaries, or in the race for the nomination overall, there's little doubt that the senator from Vermont is making a lasting impact, polling director John Della Volpe told the Washington Post on Monday.

"He's not moving a party to the left. He's moving a generation to the left," Della Volpe said of Sanders. "Whether or not he's winning or losing, it's really that he's impacting the way in which a generation—the largest generation in the history of America—thinks about politics."

By 48% to 16%, young voters said politics today was not up to meeting the challenges facing the country. By 54% to 11%, they said elected officials do not have the same priorities as they do. Six in 10 said elected officials are motivated by selfishness.

Only 15% said the country was headed in the right direction, a drop of 8 points from one year ago

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[dreamnightwind]

1. This is what happens when we fight the good fight

We may lose the battle, but we win so much more in the end.

I'm so tired of all the lectures from centrists saying "but Republicans".

While true, you still need to make a very loud, determine, and articulate case for your causes, fighting oppoents all the way through the process and vowing to return and kick their ass next time, with the help of a few million of your friends.

No more capitulation to what Republicans (actually corporations in most cases) demand. You change the frame of debate simply by waging the battle, and that prepares for future victories. Thank you Bernie!

[cui bono]

2. Yep. And it's amazing that Hillary supporters don't even know that if Hillary wins, we all lose.

They don't care about the issues or policy, they just care about winning. And they don't even know what they are winning.

This movement will not die. This is real change we are seeing. Bernie has given an entire generation hope and a a reason to believe things don't have to be the way they are, that one can be an honest person with integrity, taking money only from the people and fighting for the people and get a whole lot of support.

I hope the millennials get a new party going so we can rid ourselves of this broken two party system that by definition does not allow the people to really make the choice for president.

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[elias7]

3. !

Absolutely

[LiberalArkie]

4. Hillary supporters work on the soccer mom win at all costs strategy. Like letting the

air out of the opposing teams car tires so that they are late getting to the game and have to forget. The people who let the air out considers it a proper win.

[Zorra]

5. K&R

This is what hope looks like.