Bill Blum: "Why Bernie Sanders is Still Standing"
Good write-ups just keep coming.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_bernie_sanders_is_still_standing_20160530
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"According to the conventional wisdom, the quixotic presidential run of Bernie Sanders should be over. In fact, by conventional standards, his campaign should barely have gotten off the ground.
As a self-described “democratic socialist” in a country where the “S” word has been anathema for most of the past century, Sanders should have been a ready mark for Hillary Clinton, easily Red-baited, branded as an out-of-touch, elderly extremist and consigned to the fringes of political relevance.
But while he still trails Clinton in the delegate count, he remains in the hunt for the Democratic nomination. According to the latest Public Policy Institute of California poll he has pulled to a dead heat with Clinton in the run-up to the Golden State’s critical primary election on June 7.
In the meantime, Sanders continues to draw enormous—or, as he might say in his thick Brooklynese, “yuuge”—crowds to his rallies. The one I attended last week, for example, attracted some 6,750 supporters, who packed a high school football field in Santa Monica, Calif."
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