How Does Bernie Sanders Deal With Super Tuesday?

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/31989-focus-how-does-bernie-sanders-deal-with-super-tuesday

Nonetheless, Bernie continues to build momentum. He just won the endorsement of the 185,000-member National Nurses United. He is coming off a successful campaign swing through South Carolina. Believe it or not, even The New York Times on Friday exclaimed that the 73-year old Sanders has “recaptured the enthusiasm that fueled the 2008 Obama campaign.”

What Bernie is bringing to the 2016 race has nothing to do with his heritage, his pallor, or his coiffure. He has based his career and now this campaign on the belief that the vast majority of people agree with the fundamentals of his platform for economic justice. The unifying core of his message is that the billionaires can’t have it all. The strength of his belief in the common sense of the people is about to be tested. He could change American politics in a very positive way. As Tom Frank called for in his book What’s the Matter with Kansas?, we may see Americans in the heartland stop voting against their own interests. Whether or not Bernie wins the national election, we are seeing the formation of a political movement ready to fight the good fight on a multi-issue level.

He has to convince people of different points of view and different constituencies to work together. If he builds an effective team and stays in good health, he may be able to bring people to the voting booths who never vote and build alliances of people who don’t generally ally. There is one big wave of energy behind him.

If anyone can bend the numbers that Nate Silver relies on, Bernie is the man.

[HassleCat]

1. Super Tuesday is a problem

It's one way the two major parties have tilted the system so that the only candidates who have a good shot re those with lots of money and plenty of support from the national party organizations.

[eridani]

2. What we will be finding out is if good organizing and social media can overcome that n/t

[Pharaoh]

3. But Bernie feels so much like FDR

and I'm not old enough to have been there, but he speaks directly to the issues, no doublespeak, no bullshit.

[eridani]

4. Yes--but remember that FDR did not run as FDR

He ran on a balanced budget platform, of all things! Sanders is unprecedented in that he is running on his actual proposed policies. We haven't seen that in a long time, and it is up to us to make that worl.

[RichVRichV]

5. It's simple.

Have strong showings in the debates, continue getting the grassroots message out, and win some early primary states.

Once people see what Bernie's about and that he can win they'll come around in droves.


Nate loves touting the big leads Hillary has in polls while totally ignoring those same polls that state the majority of Americans don't know enough about Bernie to form an opinion. He's a statician who's guilty of using selective data.