Bernie Sanders Is Winning Feminists, Even at Hillary Clinton’s Alma Mater

[Purveyor]

“People are apologetically Hillary supporters"

Charlotte Alter @charlottealter Feb. 15, 2016

On the morning of her 22nd birthday, Wellesley College student Hannah Lindow woke up under a framed TIME magazine cover of Hillary Clinton, opened her dorm-room door, papered with Clinton stickers and walked to the political-science department, where Clinton’s Wellesley senior thesis hangs next to her portrait. The president of Wellesley Students for Hillary is on a mission to convince other Wellesley students “just how kickass” Clinton is.

“She’s a bad bitch. She doesn’t apologize,” Lindow says. Her friend Lily Mohr, an enthusiastic first-year, agrees. “We have this saying, ‘Wellesley women who will,’” Mohr says. “Hillary is the Wellesley woman who did.”

There may not be a better home for Clinton’s die-hard fans than her alma mater, a private women’s college in Massachusetts. And yet even here, Lindow has her work cut out for her. Like many other college campuses in America, Wellesley students have been feeling the Bern.


In fact, outside of Lindow’s Wellesley Students for Hillary group, many women who support Clinton on campus tend to keep it to themselves, as if voting for their Wellesley sister has become taboo. In a casual conversation with a group of eight Clinton supporters, only one said she had ever posted anything positive on social media in support of her — the other seven said it wasn’t worth the blowback online. One young woman told the group she feared retribution when a friend tweeted a picture of her at a Clinton event.

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http://time.com/4220427/bernie-sanders-wellesley-hillary-clinton-femisim/

[azmom]

1. My daughter attends another one of the

Seven sister colleges, Mount Holyoke, and they are big Bernie supporters there too.

[hifiguy]

2. Surprise. Bernie isn't willing to put

reproductive rights up for a constitutional "compromise." Herself apparently can't wait to do just that.

[farleftlib]

3. WTH? It wasn't woth the "blowback" online?

Here we go again. The fictional Bernie Bros meme.

Maybe she can't come up with a valid reason for her support of Hillary and is afraid of being asked.

Blowback my ass.

[SheilaT]

4. Although they are free to support whomever they wish,

I'm really bothered by their language and their apparent perception of Hillary. “She’s a bad bitch. She doesn’t apologize,” is not to my ears a ringing endorsement I'd want to hear about someone I favored.

[davidn3600]

5. Hillary struggled with the youth vote in 2008 too

The youth is a big reason Obama was able to win that primary.

82% of Democrat women under 30 voted for Bernie over Hillary in New Hampshire. 82%!!!

It's safe to say Hillary has a serious problem with young voters. And Hillary supporters insulting the youth won't help get them on board. In fact, if she wins the primary, the insults against the youth right now could hurt her in the general election.