Hillary's Inability to Grapple With Inequality Is Making Her Vulnerable to Bernie in New York

[Ferd Berfel]

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/hillarys-inability-grapple-inequality-making-her-vulnerable-bernie-new-york

Clinton is tone deaf on education debt and young voters are wary.

Establishment politicians running for high office live and breathe elaborate focus group-tested lines. In time, they become those lines. But every now and then, extreme political pressures can force a few unscripted words to slip through. And when that happens, we gain a rare glimpse of the candidate's deeper understanding of their world and our world, and the gap between the two.

Hillary Clinton suffered such a moment on Tuesday afternoon while speaking at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. Before taking the podium she already knew from internal polling that Sanders was going to win handily in Wisconsin. That meant she would be a loser in six of the last seven states, and by landslides, no less. Her staff is telling her not to worry; all the math on her size. Her delegate lead is so large Sanders can't possibly overtake her.

But Hillary is not stupid. She saw Sanders draw 18,000 people in the Bronx, virtually all people of color, and that was before his latest Wisconsin victory. She knows that nothing is set in stone if your opponent is clobbering you in primary after primary. Political momentum is something to fear and could infect the big states like New York and California.

On top of that, young people are giving Bernie more than 80% of their votes. Even large majorities of young black and Latino voters are flocking to Sanders. How can that be?

[Politicalboi]

1. Oh but 538 says Bernie is even less competitive than he appears

Of course it's in the Bubble. Cowards they are. Can't wait till their Queen is gone for GOOD!

[uponit7771]

2. Young white people, young black people don't take to Obama being called some form of the n-word

[roguevalley]

4. what does this mean? Why is it here? Do review bill's racist remarks about Obama in 2008

kids are going to bernie 80% and that has nothing to do with Obama and the 'n' word.

[elana i am]

3. i can think of a reason or three

why there is now a fundamental fracture in the dem party and age has nothing to do with it. millenials know how to google.

establishment/1%/DNC/clintons/wasserman-schultz/corporatocracy/lobbyists/clintons/PACs/big banks/wall street/clintons vs. the people.

bernie sanders is a conduit for the enthusiasm, he's not a hero and we aren't "fans". politics is not entertainment. we support him on the issues.

a scant few elected officials are on the right side of the issues. the rest are W-R-O-N-G and they can go fuck themselves.