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Liberal group Democracy For America endorses Bernie Sanders
By Gabriel Debenedetti
12/17/15 12:00 PM EST
Bernie Sanders picked up his second significant progressive endorsement of the day on Thursday afternoon, and this one might sting for Hillary Clinton.
Democracy For America, the 1 million-member liberal group that helped stoke much of the pro-Elizabeth Warren movement early in the 2016 election cycle, is backing the independent Vermont senator after he earned 88 percent of the over 270,000 votes cast in the groups online membership poll, compared with 10 percent for Clinton and 1 percent for both Martin OMalley and the option not to endorse at all.
The move is significant given DFA's high threshold for endorsing. The group has existed since 2004, and no candidate had ever previously made it past the two-thirds mark necessary for the nod which will come with fundraising help and an on-the-ground organization in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, DFA executive director Charles Chamberlain wrote in an email due to go to supporters on Thursday.
This isnt the first time DFA has stood side by side with Bernie Sanders. Our organization has been working with him to make progressive change happen for years, wrote Chamberlain, announcing the results after all three candidates wrote DFA members letters asking for their support in recent weeks. Together, weve run issue campaigns focused on raising the minimum wage, overturning Citizens United, and stopping the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership and he has regularly chatted with our members on several DFA Live conference calls over the years."
With todays endorsement, DFA members are joining Bernies political revolution and working to take it both to the White House and up-and-down the ballot, in races coast to coast, added Chamberlain in a statement.
Sanders has the backing of a large and active online community, but DFA also has close ties to Clinton: It was founded by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who is an active surrogate for the front-runner in the early-voting states. The group is even based in Vermont Dean's and Sanders shared home state.
The nod makes Thursday an extra-sweet day for the underdog Sanders, coming just hours after news broke that he also picked up the endorsement of the Communication Workers of America, one of the few national unions to back him over the former secretary of state.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/bernie-sanders-democracy-for-america-endorsement-216902
merrily
(45,251 posts)has been getting.
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)mgmaggiemg
(869 posts)democracy is inclusive....welcomes competition.. criticism....makes the body politic stronger better...
PatrickforO
(14,574 posts)For everyone horrified by the GOP and what it has become, and who thinks Third Way is nothing but GOP lite, our voices are getting heard.
Look for the media to IGNORE this.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)Kick!! Recommend!!
nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)i guess the HRC supporters at DFA are feeling the Bern.
didn't howard dean make a video for HRC on behalf of trying to get this endorsement???
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, and not MSM!!
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Howard founded the site.. and he's for Hillary but the Site and those who Joined it.....Are Not!
sonofspy777
(360 posts)http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/12/17/progressive-group-democracy-for-america-endorses-bernie-sanders/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-hanley/they-just-cant-stop-berni_b_8828918.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/bernie-sanders-democracy-for-america-endorsement-216902
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/17/progressive-group-democracy-for-america-lines-up-squarely-behind-bernie-sanders/
KoKo
(84,711 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)Karma13612
(4,552 posts)HAPPYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This so cool!
Feelthebern!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)The result of this controlled vote is pretty much the same result as every other online vote/poll. Isn't THAT interesting?!
Me thinks HRH isn't as inevitable as some people think.
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE