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Related: About this forumSanders gaining against Clinton in early polls
INDIANOLA, Iowa Bernie Sanders likes to call it practicing democracy. He doesnt take the stage to a blaring soundtrack. He doesnt have a teleprompter or a phalanx of Secret Service agents surrounding him. But when his Brooklyn accent booms out at a campaign stop in rural Iowa, heads nod along in approval.
What Im doing in this campaign is trying to tell the people the truth but a truth which is not heard a whole lot in Washington or discussed a lot in the media, Sanders said recently at a picnic in Iowas Warren County, south of Des Moines.
So let me lay it out on the table for you, he said. Youre living in a country today which has more wealth and income inequality than any major industrialized nation on earth.
In a race for the Democratic presidential nomination with Hillary Rodham Clinton, the blunt talk about the economy and the gap between the rich and poor is working for Sanders. The independent senator from Vermont is an unconventional messenger at a time when many politicians test-drive what they want to say in polls and with focus groups.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/bernie-sanders-give-hilary-clinton-run-money/
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Sanders gaining against Clinton in early polls (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Jun 2015
OP
Tell it Bernie, the Senator of truth, integrity & authenticity fighting for people & democracy.
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#2
marym625
(17,997 posts)1. K&R
appalachiablue
(41,151 posts)2. Tell it Bernie, the Senator of truth, integrity & authenticity fighting for people & democracy.
K & R
samsingh
(17,599 posts)3. interestingly, no poll data was easily available. if this were significant
wouldn't some numbers appear at the start of the story.
a 1000 pound person who loses a pound is losing weight. But wtf.
aspirant
(3,533 posts)4. A smooth, deliberate
escalating ride to victory