2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSanders Gains Ground in Nevada, Testing a Clinton Firewall
Alicia Hernandez sat on a sofa in a re-purposed Las Vegas strip-mall store on a sunny Sunday afternoon listening to a step-by-step explanation from a Bernie Sanders field office director about how a presidential caucus works.
Hernandez, 23, a daughter of immigrants whos studying floral design at the College of Southern Nevada, received an e-mail about the training session from Sanders campaign after liking what she saw on his website. She came to learn how to caucus for the Vermont senator instead of Hillary Clinton.
Hillary doesnt feel as genuine as Bernie Sanders, Hernandez said, ticking off his support for free college tuition, universal health care, the middle class and immigration. We want things to change.
Sanders needs a lot of voters like Hernandez in Nevada to overcome Clintons advantages in the state, which holds the third Democratic presidential nominating contest on Saturday. But there are signs on the ground, such as his ability to rally people like Hernandez to his campaign, that Sanders is gaining on Clinton in the state, which she was counting on as a western firewall after losing in the New Hampshire primary and squeaking out a narrow victory in the Iowa caucuses.
As a caucus state, Nevada is notoriously hard to poll and there are few reliable indicators of how the contest will go. Jon Ralston, a long-time observer of Nevada politics who publishes the Ralston Reports website, wrote in the Washington Post Tuesday that Sanders has been furiously funneling resources into the state. As a result, he wrote, Nevada is no longer a lock for Clinton and that within her campaign panic is palpable.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-16/sanders-gains-ground-in-nevada-testing-a-clinton-firewall
oasis
(49,407 posts)Count on it.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)BTW, we all know nothing is free. People are astute to know that we'll be paying taxes, but when you make the corporations and elite pay, our portion will be small and we'll finally see something form our tax dollars besides war.
oasis
(49,407 posts)A four-letter-word. It's indeed a puzzlement.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)already have right of first refusal on our taxes.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,381 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)if it wasn't true.
oasis
(49,407 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)get a pass on this?
GreenPartyVoter
(72,381 posts)a fighting chance to better themselves and their situation?
oasis
(49,407 posts)freebies that have always raised my suspicions.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)have robbed us blind for two decades, what we are seeking is our stuff back. Free stuff? No wonder hrc is losing in the 80%+ range anyone who can think for themselves and see the truth about the fuckedness of the past three decades. Go, young people.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)oasis
(49,407 posts)Hannity, Rush an Levin have only to pick any Bernie speech and have a drinking contest on how many times he utters the word "free".
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)moratoriam. Just for education and all ... Social Security, Free public school K-12, libraries, fire/police/civic duties, military and more. When Americans learn that Socialism isn't a one way trip to the Kremlin, they see that there is such a thing as Democratic Socialism and they are quickly warming up to it.
The above in the OP are old, worn out and on their way Out. Time for a new Generation. It happens. And the irony is that the Leader is an older man who isn't even a Boomer...he's between WW1 and WW2...don't think they had a generation name.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)you are in concurrence with them.
oasis
(49,407 posts)R/wing radio/tv. Sometimes I rely on common sense.
frylock
(34,825 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)DirtyHippyBastard
(217 posts)oasis
(49,407 posts)Mr. Natural can keep on truckin' back to Vermont and play checkers with his favorite candidate.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Perhaps you have the wrong avatar.
oasis
(49,407 posts)Btw, when I wrote Mr. Natural should head back to Vermont, "his favorite candidate" was in reference to Bernie.
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)Good grief, the longer this primary goes on, the less and less I relate to Hillary and some of her supporters. The chasm is widening by the day.
Kall
(615 posts)don't dwell upon pointing out the stupidity of those people prescribing free tax cuts.
mhatrw
(10,786 posts)Really, really strange. Why don't they just play against the stacked deck that we didn't have to!
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)But thanks for insulting the youth of America.
oasis
(49,407 posts)can deliver, so much the better.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)funneled to the less than 1%, now we're just working on getting it back.
oasis
(49,407 posts)definition of "free"is what he has to articulate to voters in the GE, should he get that far.
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)"bumper sticker" mentality to rule the day.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Some will say it's the message, but free college tuition and free health care will put a lot of younger voters in your column if you propose it.
oasis
(49,407 posts)to even mention the word.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Running all over the place! Wearing strange clothes! Wanting things! Listening to that music! Shocking!
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)Persondem
(1,936 posts)And I agree. I saw an article a couple of days ago stating that Clinton had 3 times the number of volunteers as Sanders.
oasis
(49,407 posts)It's a rightwing meme, so I'm told.
Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)oasis
(49,407 posts)become a magnet for uninformed youths.
Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)modestybl
(458 posts)... the taxes that went into public hospitals, colleges, schools, the research that went into all aspects of medical care, from drugs to CAT scans, the society that generations invested in... yes, I think ALL of us should be getting that back.
Hillary seems to think that her owners own everything...
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)and they're starting to cover Sanders more, so yea, it's crumbling.