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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow Bernie Sanders missed his chance to beat Hillary Clinton
Here's a good post-mortem
There was a time when Bernie Sanders, the stiff, white senator from Vermont, seemed painfully out of place in black churches. But not now at the end of the long primary trail, and not in Oakland, Calif., at the Allen Temple Baptist Church.
Summoning congregants last week in a historic East Oakland sanctuary that helped give rise to the civil rights movement and the Black Panther Party, he spoke passionately about the plight of many blacks: Too many children are raised in poverty, too many youths cant afford to go to college and cant find jobs, too many adults are locked in jails. The system is rigged against them, and he vowed to change it.
The audience rose in applause and affirmation. There were hurrahs and smiles and shouts of Amen! At last, Sanders had convinced African Americans that he understood their story and, at last, they seemed to understand his.
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How Bernie Sanders missed his chance to beat Hillary Clinton (Original Post)
Gman
Jun 2016
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Gman
(24,780 posts)2. Oh yeah. The indictment fairy
If she doesn't bring the indictment maybe Santa Claus will.
Lord Magus
(1,999 posts)3. Sure, of course she will.

brush
(61,033 posts)4. He lost his chance by not seriously the early southern primaries . . .
where a good portion of the Dem voters were African American.
It's ironic now that it's too late, that he realizes the importance of this indispensable segment of the Democratic electorate.
He missed his opportunity early as Clinton's lead is because of her nearly sweeping the early primaries.
Weaver and Devine show refund all the money they got from his campaign because of malpractice.