Bernie Sanders: 'Poor People Don't Vote...That's Just a Fact' ~NBCnews ~ (HRC GP)

[Her Sister]

Videos in link: http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/bernie-sanders-poor-people-don-t-vote-s-just-fact-n561051

When asked why he thinks he's losing in those states, Sanders responded, "Well, because poor people don't vote. I mean, that's just a fact."

In an interview airing on NBC's "Meet the Press" this Sunday, Sanders described the voter turnout among low-income Americans as "a sad reality of American society, and that's what we have to transform."

He credited his campaign with working to bring more young people into the voting process. He explained that they have "had some success with lower income people. But in America today, in the last election in 2014, 80% of poor people did not vote."

Sanders pointed out to a salon.com article to prove his point!!!!

[Thinkingabout]

1. It is the message, he needs a new speech writer.

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. What was it about his message that failed to reach those poor voters.

He had great appeal to college graduates, who tend to be more middle class.

[Her Sister]

3. This interview is going to air tomorrow ~ Sunday on Meet the Press

[Cha]

27. Who else is going to be happy when BS isn't all over the place, anymore?

[NastyRiffraff]

33. Me! Me! Me!

When will this be over? I'm running out of beer!

[Cha]

34. Save some for when it finally happens..

We'll want to be celebrating like it's 1999! LOL

[Agnosticsherbet]

38. I will be very happy when this is over.

[pandr32]

43. Dead on!

Peer pressure plays big-time with this group, too. It would be hard to not take part in the overt support of Sanders among this demographic. No-one likes to go against the tide at that age, yet a few do. I have seen and heard them and applaud them for daring to stand against the trend.
Fads quickly change. If Sanders continues to play the whiny victim card, and lying his face off (as he has over the last several weeks) he will ruin his support with this group and like birds changing direction in mid air, the flock will fly away.

[OhZone]

4. Wow! Just wow. Campaign collapse. nt

[Iliyah]

5. Oh for crying out loud

[wildeyed]

6. Last I saw, age and race were the primary

demographic differences between the candidate's supporters. Sanders' were younger and whiter.... but income was pretty evenly split. Did that change?

He makes excuses. PP and HRC were The Establishment. The South is The Confederacy. The truth is, we are just not that into him, and he lost because he got fewer votes.

[Kath1]

7. He is losing.

And grasping at anything.

[George II]

8. That's got to be as close as he's come to saying "poor (aka "BLACK") people's votes......

.....aren't as important and white votes". He's been writing off poor black southern Democrats for months, he's finally getting around to be more open about it.

[Setsuna1972]

37. Yep, another dog whistle !

He doesn't like black voters who chose Hillary over him !

[Lucinda]

9. He is so clueless.

[Rose Siding]

39. Like Giordano said, the ineffective left blames its failure on anything other than itself

First it was all of us who just hadn't heard The Message, then it was minorities who didn't understand The Message, then The South, then it was conservatives in the South, now it's the poor.

It HAS to be someone else's fault -the rigged system? Corrupt DNC? No self examination whatsoever.

[Lucinda]

45. Yep. Absolutely no awareness that we all just aren't that into him.

THAT is ego.

[Her Sister]

10. We need a Democrat President!

We need a Democrat Congress, Senate and Court! And Mayors and Governors and courts across the States!

This would help stop the GOP gerrymandering that's disenfranchising many across the nation.

This would stop the erosion of many rights across the nation. Obama has been able to curtail a lot of damage that the GOP would've gotten away with.

But our President is not a King! Our constitution made sure of that. He or She cannot do this alone! Needs a majority voting with him or her!

HRC is the candidate to strengthen and grow our party! She has the smart, the personality, the know how, the know who, the flexibility, the strength and the qualifications to build our Party! She is loyal and respectful of our party and our base.


With HER!

[Iamaartist]

46. Agree !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[otohara]

11. Who Can't Vote In Caucus States? Elderly, Disabled, PM Workers

parents with children who can't afford to get a babysitter for 3-4 hours.

What does he complain about in caucus states - coin tosses!

We have mail ballots for municipal elections - but when it comes to choosing the next president
we pile into small class rooms for a few hours and thousands stay home.

[Her Sister]

12. If you need a babysitter to go to the caucus that means the babysitter cannot go vote!

[otohara]

16. Good Point

Talks of the primary returning are in the works but the bros are now demanding it be open to GOP and unaffiliated.
Why be a Democrat?

[xmas74]

21. Unless you hire a teenager

But you don't see much of that anymore. And some wouldn't be allowed to work on a school night, when some of the caucuses occur.

[mercuryblues]

13. thank you

one of my problems with him. He coulda been a contendah. Instead he chose to alienate the people most likely to vote for him. His surrogates did not help him in the least.

[DemonGoddess]

14. uhhhh wut???

[Princess Turandot]

15. In the primaries won by HRC, she won the 'income under 30k' in nearly all of them...

per exit polls, and often by a lot. There's no way to know the mix in that number, of course, but it's hard to see how more voters in that category would have helped him.

Sanders has lost and now he's being boorish about it.

[Cha]

29. That's me.. way under. Wonder if I'm considered "poor" by his standards? He sure didn't have

my vote. We vote alright.. just not for his hogwash.

[ismnotwasm]

17. It's all over Facebook, and not in a good way.

A Twitter hashtag will be #poordontvoteBS.

[Cha]

30. Wow, really. and not in a good way all over FB?! that's refreshing.. thank you, ism~!

#poorsontvoteBS True, from my view!

[Thinkingabout]

18. There are lots of registered voters who do not vote asv in 2010 and 2012 and the

Republicans cleaned out clock in Congress. I read numerous post complaining "they just didn't have anything to vote". Too many complain and never take the proper action.

[sheshe2]

19. Oh my Goddess, he went there yet again. nt

[mcar]

20. So tone deaf!

[katmille]

22. I volunteer with a program

That serves low income people in my community. We partner with the local food bank, community garden and health providers. These people are poor, but proud and they DO vote. We offer rides to polling places and/or help with registering to vote.

We meet on Tuesdays and I can't tell you how often over the years when I arrive on an Election Day (or during voting periods) I have seen some of the clients with their "I voted" sticker on. They are usually very pleased to tell us that they have voted! So, yes, poor people vote. Except when people like our governor -- and Wisconsin's governor and Ohio's governor and North Carolina's governor -- among others make it hard, sometimes impossible to vote.

Just because they are poor or disabled doesn't mean they are less of a citizen than any young, able bodied, mobile, middle class or affluent Bernie supporter.
Maybe they just "don't vote" for someone who dismisses them so easily!

[xmas74]

28. My daughter will be driving this fall.

She already has permission to take the GE off from school and assist with driving to the polls. At least I said she could.

[katmille]

31. Good for you!

And your daughter. "It takes a village."

[xmas74]

35. She volunteers all the time

And the local Democratic organizations are really good about setting up car pools to the polls.

[athena]

23. I have been debating posting a previous comment by Bernie

which, when combined with this one, has pretty interesting connotations. But it's an offensive comment, and even though Bernie is the one who said it, I suspect Bernie supporters wouldn't think twice before voting to hide it, while continuing to argue that their candidate never does or says anything wrong.

It's become so difficult to post on DU!

[katmille]

24. Oh. Please

Now you've got our curiosity up! Please, please. (Whine, whine) , please.

[athena]

25. OK, I hope I don't disappoint you.

Here it is:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/03/07/bernie_sanders_when_youre_white_you_dont_like_what_its_like_to_live_in_a_ghetto_and_be_poor.html

[Cha]

26. That's his latest lame excuse? It couldn't be because his stupid message doesn't

resonate with "poor people"?

In case BS hasn't noticed this is not 2014 anymore.

[KittyWampus]

32. The same could be said about all the young adults who attended Sanders' rallies...

[Setsuna1972]

36. No Bernie

You've lost because most Democrats just don't like you and your half baked ideas for a Revolution !

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

40. Now the poor are thrown under the Bernie bus

[riversedge]

41. Thanks for posting here. I posted inn LBN yesterday and now is locked.

[Her Sister]

42. NBC news source??!! locked!?

Geesh! Does were his own words!! Nobody else's.

[bluestateguy]

44. Empirically he is basically correct, but it's a stupid thing to say

Much like the Obama "bitter" comments in 2008--also made on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary--were actually quite accurate.

That said, those comments likely cost him primary votes in PA, and maybe even a few votes later in the Fall.

Just because something could be true doesn't mean it needs to be said, and by a politician at that. We are electing a president, not a political scientist.

And to pivot from what he said, ok why then are poor folks not responding to the Bernie Revolution? A few are, but not nearly enough, and Hillary is winning her share of poor voters herself. So is Donald Trump (they think Trump will make them winners in life. Fat chance.)

[savalez]

47. Assuming that's true...

why does he think he'd get more votes if they did?

[Setsuna1972]

48. Throwing "poor people" under the bus

I though Socialist LOVED the poor ! Can this man become even more of a jerk than he already is ???