Watch: Wellesley students endorse Bernie Sanders

[Uncle Joe]

This wouldn’t be notable, except that Wellesley is Hillary Clinton’s alma mater and often described as a strong base of support for her campaign.

As one of the country’s top all-women colleges, Wellesley has plenty of students who support Clinton and want to see a woman elected president. But as the video below reveals, there are also students who, like many of their millennial peers, are more inclined toward Sanders for 2016:

The video, released Tuesday, is starting to get some play online. And it’s not shy about sticking it to Clinton with slides of text: “At Wellesley College, Hillary Clinton’s alma mater, students are feeling the Bern.”

The timing is a little awkward given news that Sanders dominated Clinton with Iowa voters under 45 on Monday night. As The Post’s Rosalind Helderman and Scott Clement report, the former Secretary of State could face a similar problem in New Hampshire next week:

Typically, younger voters do not turn out as reliably as older ones. But Monday night’s entrance polls and other opinion surveys suggest a massive advantage for Sanders among those who do turn out — young women and men alike. Ninety-three percent of caucus-goers under 30, for instance, said Sanders shared their values, compared with 53 percent who felt that way about Clinton, helping Sanders surge past Obama’s performance in that age bracket eight years earlier, according to the entrance surveys.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/02/03/watch-wellesley-students-endorse-bernie-sanders/

There is a video on the link.

[floriduck]

1. I love it. Thanks UJ. nm

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. OMG! LOL!

It says everything when your own alma mater won't endorse you!



Go Bernie!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[Uncle Joe]

4. No doubt, Hillary does have supporters there as well but according to the article, Bernie supporters

dominate on line.

Even Wellesley students who back Clinton acknowledged that Sanders has traction on campus:

Clinton enjoys a lot of support at her own alma mater, the all-female Wellesley College in Massachusetts. But there, too, Sanders dominates online, said Laura Prebble, 19, and Juliette Sander, 18, freshmen at the school who said they support Clinton.

(snip)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/02/03/watch-wellesley-students-endorse-bernie-sanders/

[hifiguy]

19. That has to smart.

[rhett o rick]

3. She won't care just as long as Goldman-Sachs continues to "endorse" her. nm

[Lucinda]

5. Cool. Young people involved is a good thing

as long as they support Clinton or Sanders.

[Tanuki]

6. Clinton has plenty of support among Wellesley students

http://wellesleyforhillary.com/about/

[SheenaR]

11. Bernie

has lots of union support. But Clinton supporters have taught us it is ALL about the endorsement.

[Tanuki]

22. I don't understand your point. This was not an endorsement by Wellesley College,

or representative of the majority of the students there. It was a video by 11 individual students who support Bernie. We all know that he is very popular with college students, so it is hardly surprising that even at Hillary's alma mater there would be that many, and more, who would support him. I don't know what all the fuss over this is about, and I don't think anyone who supports Hillary would be the least bit upset about it. On the contrary, I am very happy to see voters of all ages informing themselves about the issues, engaging in a healthy debate, and taking the political process seriously. Moreover, I congratulate the students in the video for not stooping to the kind of cheap shots and half truths and worse that I see on a regular basis in this campaign, but representing the positives they feel their candidate brings to the table. They are not spewing vile insults on social media, and they are to be commended. They are a credit to themselves, their families, their candidate, and to Wellesley College.

[Cheese Sandwich]

7. Nice. nt

[H2O Man]

8. Recommended.

Very interesting! Thank you.

[Uncle Joe]

9. It was my pleasure.

Peace to you, H2O Man.

[warrprayer]

10. Kick

And rec

[Ken Burch]

12. HRC supporters will be calling 'em "a bunch of damn Sarandons". n/t.

[uhnope]

13. ze is glad

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. Wasn't even a hard choice.

[SoapBox]

15. The "I'm for Her" propaganda...

Is totally crumbling.

[whatchamacallit]

16. I'm With Her

[Duval]

17. Kicked and recommended. Thank you! nt

[Uncle Joe]

18. It was my pleasure, Duval.

Peace to you.

[beam me up scottie]

20. Ouch! K & R!

[UglyGreed]

21. K/R

[Tanuki]

23. Primary results are in...HRC carried Wellesley, MA

https://apps.bostonglobe.com/election-results/2016/primary/democratic/massachusetts/?p1=BG_election_results

Wellesley

Clinton
68.7%
4,009

Sanders
30.8%
1,799

Other
0.5%
27

[Uncle Joe]

24. Primary results are in, "Fracking and Earthquakes have become major issues in Oklahoma"

(snip)

Sanders didn’t speak about fracking at Sunday’s rally, but in a fundraising email Friday, he specifically highlighted Oklahoma’s rash of earthquakes that many believe are linked to wastewater from fracking being injected into underground wells along fault lines. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has told oil and gas companies to reduce wastewater in underground wells to curb the problem.

Sanders has launched a new television ad in Minnesota and Colorado about his stance against fracking. The campaign is using other ads in Oklahoma, where strategists believe he still needs to be introduced to voters, but they think the fracking issue will have a powerful impact here, as well.

(snip)

At the Oklahoma City rally, Dillon Turner, 29, said Sanders’ position on the need for campaign finance reform is most important to him because “I think our democracy is in danger.”

But Turner, a marketing specialist at a company with ties to the oil and gas industry, also supports Sanders’ stance on fracking. He thinks Sanders would place a higher priority on addressing climate change than Clinton, who he said was slow to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline.

“It’s a huge problem and we need to move on it quickly,” he said.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/02/29/oklahoma-primary-bernie-sanders-super-tuesday/81088324/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1374465

Perhaps if there had been fracking underneath that college, more citizens of Wellesley would've supported Bernie?

[Tanuki]

25. Uncle Joe, we agree on much more than you might imagine, despite our difference in choice

Last edited Wed Mar 2, 2016, 08:24 AM - Edit history (1)

of candidates this election. Your posts are thoughtful and respectful and you are oriented to important issues and not sniping. Fracking is a blight on the environment and a menace to the population, present and future. My roots are in West Virginia for 7 generations on my mother's side, and although I do not live there now, I am deeply grieved by the effects of fracking as well as mountain top removal there and elsewhere. The coal, oil, and gas industries have treated my home state like a third world country, ripe for exploitation, for generations, and lax state laws allow it to this day. I do not hold Hillary Clinton responsible for this. As you may know, Oklahoma's predominantly Republican elected officials act with apparent impunity in the interests of the energy industry. Just a few months ago,
"Oklahoma’s towns and cities are no longer allowed to ban fracking under a bill signed into law on Friday by Republican Gov. Mary Fallin.

The new law prohibits localities from choosing whether or not to have oil and gas operations within their jurisdictions, with exceptions for “reasonable” restrictions like noise and traffic issues. Other than that, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission will retain control over oil and gas drilling.

The state commission is run by three elected commissioners, all of whom are Republican. Chairman Bob Anthony is a member of the National Petroleum Council, a group that advises the U.S. Department of Energy on oil and gas industry interests. And Vice Chairman Dana Murphy is a geologist and attorney with “more than 22 years experience in the petroleum industry,” according to her bio page.

Fracking — the process of injecting high-pressure mixtures of water, sand, and chemicals underground to crack shale rock and release oil and gas — is prolific in Oklahoma, and Fallin said the new law would be necessary to prevent a “patchwork of inconsistent municipal regulations across the state.” In addition, Fallin said, allowing cities and towns to have control over whether fracking occurs could “damage the state’s largest industry, largest employers and largest taxpayers.”

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/06/01/3664586/oklahoma-ban-on-fracking-bans/
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More to your point, the analysis of Oklahoma's voting demographics suggest that Sanders' victory there is more likely due to 1) the state being overwhelmingly white and 2) the fact that males there voted for him by a 20% margin.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-won-oklahoma/story?id=37325329

I hope that the legislators Oklahoma sends to the Congress and Senate will enact strong federal environmental protection and clean energy policy, but their choices so far do not give me much hope. Moreover, I noticed that Ted Cruz was the winner in the Oklahoma GOP primary last night.


http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/fracking-industry-billionaires-give-record-15-million-ted-cruzs-super-pac

https://www.facebook.com/SenatorTedCruz/posts/400830896695883

[rjsquirrel]

26. The timing was a little awkward ....

because Hillary won Massachusetts, including Wellesey.

But here we go again.

Wellesey students are college liberals but their parents vote Hillary. And actually vote.