NYT: Young Democrats Flock to Bernie Sanders, Spurning Hillary Clinton’s Polish and Poise

[IDemo]

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Bernie Sanders is 74. He grew up playing stickball in the streets of Brooklyn and watching a black-and-white television.

Yet this child of the 1940s, who says Franklin D. Roosevelt is his favorite president, has inspired a potent political movement among young people today. College students wear shaggy white “Bernie” wigs on campus, carry iPhones with his image as their screen saver, and flock to his events by the thousands.

And armies of young voters are turning what seemed like a long-shot presidential candidacy into a surprisingly competitive campaign.

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“With Hillary,” she said, “sometimes you get this feeling that all of her sentences are owned by someone.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/us/politics/bernie-sanders-young-democratic-voters.html

I'm not seeing an overabundance of poise with Hillary, but that's just my impression.

[ErisDiscordia]

1. me neither

not even what passes for it in the Midwest.

[corkhead]

2. Here's some polish and poise from her "victory" speech in Iowa:

Funny, I just noticed Bill has his button on upside down, is that some sort of jinx, or the equivalent of wearing a flag pin upside down?

[monmouth4]

6. I've already had one hide this week but would love for someone to caption Bill and what

he might be thinking to himself..

[Divernan]

11. This is how they look when it's just them in the room.

Bill's eyes aren't twinkling and he's not boyishly biting his lower lip. She doesn't have her raised eyebrows, huge fake smile. He actually looks like a serious adult and not some slick salesman.

Really an extremely rare photo of them.

[Bad Bad JuJu]

13. Slicky Boy

just has his pin pointing to the Right.

[dae]

18. Bill: Hill said I can select some interns for myself!

Hill: Yes Bill you can have some interns, as soon as you return from being waterboarded!

[nilram]

3. shaggy white Bernie wigs?

I WANT.

[roguevalley]

5. get a head band and glue cotton to it. Someone had a picture of it on

the site yesterday. It's hilarious.

[Bad Bad JuJu]

14. I had one I grew at home

then I got a trim.

[LiberalElite]

22. Here's the link to the Bernie "wigs" with the how-to's

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280108896

[nilram]

24. beautiful, thanks

[SheenaR]

4. All you need to know why voter turnout will be very low if she is the nominee

“With Hillary,” she said, “sometimes you get this feeling that all of her sentences are owned by someone.”

Here at DU, people dismiss this as a lone wolf theory. Tens of thousands of young people flood social media every day saying the exact same thing. We will be up against it with her as the nominee. No clue where we are going to get the turnout needed.

[corkhead]

9. The Dem PTB will tell us libs to suck it up and vote for the Democrat

because (Ha Ha) we have no choice.


Yes, the beatings will continue until morale improves.

If Hillary does somehow survive the primaries I plan to vote for the obvious lesser of 2 evils once again, but I fully expect Democratic turnout will probably be low however I doubt any breathing Republicon will miss the opportunity to vote against one of the most polarizing candidates we could have possibly chosen.

[truegrit44]

19. I agree plus the fact.........

that if Hill is the nominee the repubs will have a hay day with all the baggage they can bring up on her. They will tear her a part. Bernie is pretty squeaky clean. I believe having her would be a much higher chance of us losing.

I personally know members of my hubby's family (from AR) that hate her!!!!!!!!!! They will swim thru shark infested waters to vote against her.

[WillyT]

7. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[mhatrw]

8. Establishment's "polish and poise"= real folks' phoniness, pretentiousness and dishonesty nt

[jhart3333]

10. Young people and the internet. That is what will save us.

[NorthCarolina]

12. Youth tend to be better judges of character I think

than older folks can sometimes be. They aren't yet jaded by party politics.

[LiberalArkie]

21. The youth now are a thousand times smarter than I was at that age and a million

times smarter than I am now.

[Don Draper]

15. It's inspiring to see young people's passion for a political revolution

Bernie is the future of the Democratic Party! Hillary should be very conserved about the disproportionate support Bernie has from the younger voters.

[AzDar]

16. Polish and poise? "It's What They Offered". GTFO with that...

[PADemD]

17. When Hillary speaks

When Hillary speaks, I always feel like I'm watching an attorney methodically presenting a case to a jury. Every word is measured.

[TIME TO PANIC]

20. K & R!

[SoapBox]

23. Polish and Poise????

How about the flip flopping? Shape shifting? And Weathervane antics on policies from A to Z?

Hilarious.