"People say Latinos don't vote. It's because motherf***ers don't ask them to vote." - Chuck Rocha

[Laelth]

Bernie's poised to clean house on Super Tuesday. If you want to blame someone for that, blame Chuck Rocha (or blame other Democrats who have not paid sufficient attention to the nation's largest minority). Chuck Rocha, a self-described Mexican redneck, has changed all that, as the NV caucus has demonstrated. Chuck works for Bernie.

Bernie Sanders’s Nevada caucus campaign ended with a convincing win Saturday afternoon, thanks in large measure to a 37-percentage-point victory among Latino caucus-goers. But the seeds of that victory were sown five years ago when a staffer on Sanders’s first presidential bid had trouble reading a Spanish website.

It was Memorial Day weekend 2015, about a month after the Vermont senator launched his long-shot challenge to Hillary Clinton. Sanders was short on resources; his staff was a skeleton crew, with no one who could translate Spanish. So the campaign summoned Chuck Rocha, the founder and president of Solidarity Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in reaching Latinos and blacks that was launched by Rocha in 2010. He charged Sanders triple his usual rate to work on the holiday.

“I remember sending him an invoice for $824, which was a big invoice for me,” Rocha told Yahoo News in an extensive interview five days before the Nevada caucus. “Little did I know that that $800 invoice would turn into millions and millions of dollars of work for Bernie Sanders.”

https://news.yahoo.com/latinos-sanderss-secret-weapon-in-nevada-could-make-him-unstoppable-on-super-tuesday-015922411.html

Chuck's strategy worked, obviously, and Sanders is set to pick up a lot of delegates in CA and TX on Super Tuesday precisely because of his superior outreach campaign to Latino Americans.

-Laelth

[LaurenOlimina]

1. This is what wins elections.

[Laelth]

2. If you're worried that Sanders will be our nominee, don't read that whole article.

Bernie's five-year-old, well-funded machine is well-placed to kick the snot out of even the best one-year-old campaign currently running against it.

-Laelth

[totodeinhere]

3. People of color are the reliable base of the Democratic Party.

And in Nevada they spoke loudly and clearly for Bernie. And I know this first hand since I am in Nevada.

[Laelth]

4. It appears that you are right.

Bernie was expected to win NV. He was not expected to win it by the margin it appears that he will win it. He certainly wasn't expected to rack up a 37% margin of victory among Latinos. The article I linked to above explains why he did.

-Laelth

[totodeinhere]

5. What about a Sanders/Buttigieg ticket?

Mayor Pete might help him get Indiana's electoral votes.

[Laelth]

6. I would be thrilled.

It's an interesting question. Bernie hasn't, to my knowledge, telegraphed anything about whom he may choose. Do you have any insight to offer?



-Laelth

[ripcord]

7. I have suggested this a couple of times

Buttigieg is young and shows a lot of promise plus selecting a moderate would help solidify the party before the general election.

[Laelth]

9. It ought to lock up the Latino vote, to be sure.

But ... no woman, no PoC. I doubt Bernie would choose Pete, but I would be happy if he did.



-Laelth

[ripcord]

10. I don't think that would be a problem

I think a Jewish President and a gay VP would be very progressive.

[Laelth]

12. Welcome to progressive America.

I welcome it.



-Laelth

[Moderateguy]

8. Did you forget that Indiana is also Mike Pence's home state

And a reliably red state at that

[totodeinhere]

13. I think in this election all bets are off. I think Bernie would run a national campaign

and would not write off any state.

[Celerity]

11. Some of Bernie's supporters in the far left social media, the far left sites and shows have been

non-stop slagging off and attacking Buttiegieg since he declared. So many lies and manipulations and smears. Zero percent chance Bernie would pick Pete. His farthest left, most harcore base would go bonkers.

[totodeinhere]

14. If Bernie needed Pete's delegates to go over the top then yes I think

his supporters would gladly accept Pete.

[Celerity]

15. I see almost zero chance of Pete being asked. nt

[totodeinhere]

16. Well I don't speak for Bernie. Only myself. n/t

[Celerity]

17. Do you follow or read or visit sites like Jacobin, Current Affairs, TYT, & many of the main Bernie

big Twitter FB, and other social media boosters? Do you go to pro Bernie chat-boards like JPR?

If you do, then you will know why there is almost zero chance of a coming together of Buttigieg and Sanders.

cheers

[totodeinhere]

18. Yes, I follow some of them. n/t

[Celerity]

19. then you are well aware of why I say what I say nt