Bernie Sanders to set up shop in Montgomery, Selma, Birmingham

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Staffers for the U.S. Senator from Vermont said on a conference call Wednesday they planned to open offices in Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma in advance of Alabama's March 1 Democratic primary, with the potential for others. The Sanders campaign also plans to be “active on every college campus in the state, especially the community college system,” according to Kelvin Datcher, Sanders' Alabama director.

The campaign also plans to use online outreach to reach supporters.

“The great thing for us is the online guys are already organized,” Datcher said on the conference call. “They’re meeting in 20 to 30 places across the state.”

Alabama will have 58 delegates up for election in the primary. Delegates in the primary are awarded proportionately to their share of the ballots cast. In the last competitive Democratic primary in Alabama in 2008, Barack Obama won 56 percent of the vote but ended up splitting the state’s available delegates with then-U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton.

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/politics/southunionstreet/2015/12/09/bernie-sanders-plans-open-three-alabama-offices/77044826/

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1. I say...

This is great...and that it's a big deal.