Liberal group Democracy For America endorses Bernie Sanders
Source: Politico
By GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI
Bernie Sanders picked up his second significant progressive endorsement of the day on Thursday afternoon, and this one might sting for Hillary Clinton.
Democracy For America, the 1 million-member liberal group that helped stoke much of the pro-Elizabeth Warren movement early in the 2016 election cycle, is backing the independent Vermont senator after he earned 88 percent of the over 270,000 votes cast in the groups online membership poll, compared with 10 percent for Clinton and 1 percent for both Martin OMalley and the option not to endorse at all.
The move is significant given DFA's high threshold for endorsing. The group has existed since 2004, and no candidate had ever previously made it past the two-thirds mark necessary for the nod which will come with fundraising help and an on-the-ground organization in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, DFA executive director Charles Chamberlain wrote in an email due to go to supporters on Thursday.
This isnt the first time DFA has stood side by side with Bernie Sanders. Our organization has been working with him to make progressive change happen for years, wrote Chamberlain, announcing the results after all three candidates wrote DFA members letters asking for their support in recent weeks. Together, weve run issue campaigns focused on raising the minimum wage, overturning Citizens United, and stopping the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership and he has regularly chatted with our members on several DFA Live conference calls over the years."
FULL story at link. See the graphic below too.
The nod makes Thursday an extra-sweet day for underdog Bernie Sanders, coming just hours after news broke that he also picked up the endorsement of the Communication Workers of America. | AP Photo
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/bernie-sanders-democracy-for-america-endorsement-216902
peacebird
(14,195 posts)FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)lewebley3
(3,412 posts)JeffHead
(1,186 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)Dawgs
(14,755 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)DFA members work!
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Good for DFA. Unlike Clinton, with her strategy to suppress the vote in the primary, Sanders does in fact and action epitomize the phrase Democracy for America.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)The message from Hillary Clinton included Howard Dean's endorsement of her.
She might have done better if DFA emailed those message BEFORE we voted.
Robbins
(5,066 posts)those messages were sent out during voting.But,try again.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)If they didn't have your email until you voted, they emailed after you voted...and provided a link in each email to change your vote.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)I know because I was already getting emails from them before the vote, including recently.
They didn't send me the emails from the candidates until after I voted.
Clicking the link in the emails from the candidates just took me to their website, and showed that I had already voted. I didn't see instructions for changing my vote (I didn't want to change my vote, anyway).
blackspade
(10,056 posts)The 'after' with a link to change my vote to Clinton.
merrily
(45,251 posts)That's one reason I will make exactly one $3 donation to DFA and send all the rest of my money directly to the Sanders campaign via Omaha Steve's DU link.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)I'm glad to be a part of this endorsement!
litlbilly
(2,227 posts)Bernie doesn't just win, he knocks it out of the park. I would rather have the people simply because of the numbers. I truly don't think the money on Hillary's side will do much this time around.
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)How much you want to bet the next national poll he doesn't break 30%?
Duval
(4,280 posts)nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)K&R
WillyT
(72,631 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....people to vote more than once, and they didn't screen or verify that the voters were old enough to vote or even registered voters or United States citizens.
Omaha Steve
(99,632 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Phlem
(6,323 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)George II
(67,782 posts).........and provide the four pieces of information they ask for (first name, last name, email address and zip code)
merrily
(45,251 posts)was for Bernie supporters? Or was that, for once a level playing field--well, except that those who voted for Bernie got an email from DFA suggesting they switch their vote to Hillary. That wasn't level, but the poll itself seems to have been equally hard or easy for both, no? So, why all the sour grapes from the Hillary camp?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128083341
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)gordyfl
(598 posts)88% for Bernie.
10% for Hillary
That's very impressive -- no matter how you slice it.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)The liberal group Democratic Underground endorses Bernie Sanders !