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PolWatch
05-07-2016, 08:21 AM
I don't think that anyone misses the fact that Clinton is the anointed candidate of the dem party. She has the big donors & the support of the party establishment. Bernie Sanders is the dark horse in the race. His delegate count is not impressive. IMO, a lot of his platform is nothing but wishes. His campaign has not been funded by big donors or a huge (!) personal fortune....so what is the attraction? Trump attracts the angry voter. Clinton attracts the powerful backers. Bernie seems to attract a lot of the forgotten Americans. This report of his rally in West Virginia sums it up:

“Everything is related to everybody else,” he said. “You are not going to get a handle on the crime problem, unless you get a handle on the drug problem. You’re not going to get a handle on the problem, unless we get to some economic issues and deal with the despair and hopelessness that a lot of people are feeling.”
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With boarded-up houses, broken windows, abandoned schools, closed coal mines and, maybe most shocking of all, only pieces of a functioning sewage system, towns here in McDowell County, like Kimball, are clearly hurting. It’s no surprise, then, that Sanders, with the mantle he now enjoys, continues to shine a light whenever he can.
In McDowell County, with about 20,000 residents, 20.7 percent of households earn less than $10,000 a year, according to U.S. Census data. More than 52 percent make less than $25,000 a year. What’s more, less than 5 percent of residents have a college degree.
Sanders’ own path to White House may be mostly closed, but the senator does have a point: there’s a lot of work to do for whoever gets there.
In joining the race, and now staying in the race, Sanders has pushed the conversation and helped expose the extent to which many Americans are struggling.'

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/bernie-sanders-day-west-virginia-reflects-campaign-nutshell-142103334--abc-news-topstories.html

Peter1469
05-07-2016, 11:32 AM
I like that Bernie is anti-establishment. He is just 180 degrees wrong with the solution. More government is not the answer.