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mhatrw

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Sat Feb 20, 2016, 08:43 AM Feb 2016

The Guardian talks to Nevada voters.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/20/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-nevada-caucuses-us-housing-crisis-foreclosure-wall-street

Mark is going to vote for Donald Trump. But he says he could live with Bernie Sanders as president. “I really think Trump has the knowledge. There’s a lot of support for Trump among the people I know. But I like Sanders, too. If we have to have a Democrat, I really hope it’s him and not Hillary. ... I don’t know about Sanders but he’s honest, Clinton’s just about the money.”

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Toward the end of Brown Street, a foreclosed house is being refurbished for sale. Victor Rodriguez is working on the kitchen. He’s 34 and was born in Mexico City but is a naturalised American citizen. He said there is no way he is voting for Trump. “That guy’s a fucking idiot. To be honest with you, I’d be an idiot too if I had his kind of money. I don’t want him to be president of my country. If he becomes president, I’m going back to where I came from,” Rodriguez said. “I’m not voting, If I did, I’d vote for Sanders. I’ve got faith in Sanders. He’s telling it like it is. But they’ll never let Sanders win. The result is already fixed.”

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A couple of blocks away, Craig Johnson, a hotel worker, lost his house when the mortgage rate skyrocketed, nearly doubling his payments, just as the value of his home dropped by two-thirds. So he walked away from the property. Now he rents and will be voting for Sanders. “Until I lost my home, I never knew how the system worked with Wall Street and all that. I still don’t understand it, but now I’m aware of it and I know enough to see that it’s this system where even when they screw up the economy they get rich. Bernie’s the only one talking about changing that. Hillary’s been bought off by them. The Clintons have always been about money for themselves.”

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“This whole city’s built on greed – the idea you can win big,” Johnson said. “Wall Street is the house, and it always wins. Bernie wants to change that. I hope he does, but the casinos didn’t get rich by letting the punters win.”
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The Guardian talks to Nevada voters. (Original Post) mhatrw Feb 2016 OP
We Us Together - Vs - No Can't And Impossible -- The Choice Is Clear cantbeserious Feb 2016 #1
+1 Jenny_92808 Feb 2016 #3
The only thing negative you hear about Bernie are his chances, people will show in NV, PEOPLE orpupilofnature57 Feb 2016 #2
 

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
2. The only thing negative you hear about Bernie are his chances, people will show in NV, PEOPLE
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 08:49 AM
Feb 2016

make the odds and votes, I wish I could of talked more people not voting in Nevada, who by the way were 90% ( or I'd vote for Bernie, I believe what he says ,but they'll never let him win ) that they could be the vote to screw up Their well laid plans .

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