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Bernie's Wellesley fan club
Bernie's Wellesley fan clubAt Hillary Clinton's alma mater, a small band of Sanders supporters is up against a well-organized machine.
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They didn’t all know each other socially — the women quietly found each other through the Wellesley Students for Bernie Facebook page, which now has 275 members and counting (compared with 815 in the pro-Clinton student Facebook group). Many said their support for Sanders put them in the minority in their social circles, but they did not feel moved by the former secretary of state, despite living in the dormitories she once resided in and studying in the classrooms where she learned.
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Devlin said most of her close friends on campus are Clinton supporters. But for her, “Hillary is just too tied to big money, and has too many people in politics who she maybe owes favors to. Maybe Bernie won’t be able to institute all the policies he wants, but his ideas are there and that’s what matters to me.”
The Bernie backers said support for Clinton can feel more personal to students because of the alumni connection (Clinton attended her 45th college reunion here last year). “A lot of people have said, ‘I’m going to vote for Hillary because it will increase the value of my degree,'” said Anne Conron, the sophomore who launched the Wellesley for Bernie Facebook group.
Conron, who also co-founded the campus Student Labor Action Project, said vocalizing support for Sanders was important “to let people know they can explore other options. ”For others in the group, their education at Wellesley has actually shifted them away from blindly supporting a woman for the sake of supporting a woman. “I used to be a Hillary supporter,” said sophomore Emily Boyke, who said she backed Clinton on gender grounds. “What changed is I began to understand there’s a difference between representation and actual change.”
They didn’t all know each other socially — the women quietly found each other through the Wellesley Students for Bernie Facebook page, which now has 275 members and counting (compared with 815 in the pro-Clinton student Facebook group). Many said their support for Sanders put them in the minority in their social circles, but they did not feel moved by the former secretary of state, despite living in the dormitories she once resided in and studying in the classrooms where she learned.
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Devlin said most of her close friends on campus are Clinton supporters. But for her, “Hillary is just too tied to big money, and has too many people in politics who she maybe owes favors to. Maybe Bernie won’t be able to institute all the policies he wants, but his ideas are there and that’s what matters to me.”
The Bernie backers said support for Clinton can feel more personal to students because of the alumni connection (Clinton attended her 45th college reunion here last year). “A lot of people have said, ‘I’m going to vote for Hillary because it will increase the value of my degree,'” said Anne Conron, the sophomore who launched the Wellesley for Bernie Facebook group.
Conron, who also co-founded the campus Student Labor Action Project, said vocalizing support for Sanders was important “to let people know they can explore other options. ”For others in the group, their education at Wellesley has actually shifted them away from blindly supporting a woman for the sake of supporting a woman. “I used to be a Hillary supporter,” said sophomore Emily Boyke, who said she backed Clinton on gender grounds. “What changed is I began to understand there’s a difference between representation and actual change.”
Don't miss some of the absurd reasons Hillary's Wellesley fan club members are voting for her: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/bernie-sanders-wellesley-hillary-clinton-216203#ixzz3sixhRdid
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