Reports from the ground in CA

My wife did some voter registration today and then we spent the day out and about, her wearing her hat with Bernie Sanders stickers on it.

VERY interesting stuff.

#1 question asked: Do you think he can still win? Answer: Well, if we show up and vote him.. HELL YEAH!

#2 observation: The VAST majority of people who approached us excited about the Bernie sticker on her hat.. not millennials. Average age was well 50+. My wife is in her early 40s and the women she was paired with for canvasing was in her 60s. Yeah, the millennials are the no brainers, but I was shocked at the number of people you would be led to believe are "Clinton Voters" coming up to us and saying "Love the hat" who thumbs uping the Bernie sticker.

#3 observation: Not a SINGLE HRC person trying to register voters or doing any type of outreach. Not a single sticker, bumper sticker, yard sign.. NOTHING. But, to me the "surprise" (not really) was that they are making NO EFFORT at all to register voters.

If they REALLY cared about down ticket elections, wouldn't that be step 1???

In short, Bernie's support in California is wide and deep and yes, he has a path to victory... people just need to actually show up and vote.

Just had a fascinating call with a voter in Rochester

I am doing some calls for Bernie today and spoke with a voter in Rochester who was telling me that the local board of elections had REFUSED to send out reminder cards for today's primary. He explained that they have more primaries coming in September and they will be sending out the reminders for those, but they didn't send them out for today.

He told me how he has been telling all of his friends to get out and vote for Bernie and that a lot of them didn't know their polling place, etc.

WOW.

Why didn't Bernie bring up the Bankruptcy bill as an example of money influencing her decisions?

Just not true

The VAST majority of the bush tax cuts are permanent and plz dont try to sell me on a 39.6% top tax rate.... that is insanely low.


And sorry.. but Obama HAD the votes to get the public option via reconciliation... he only needed 50 votes and they had them.. SANDERS was leading that coalition... but the White House dropped the public option from ita plan and sold us out.

They didnt NEED lieberman at that point.

And IF the democrats hold power in 2010... as they would have if Obama kept the public option you REALLY think the Supreme Court would strike it down??? They would be handing the democrats 2012 and beyond if they pulled that... the only reason it was close is bc the aca remains unpopular. If they struck it down... they poke the beast and we can go after single payer again.. like MOST PEOPLE WANT. The ACA survived bc it is a republican plan... its the plan bob dole ran on... its the plan the heritage foundation came up with... it was never in REAL danger from the supreme court. Its the plan THEY want... they win either way... they get to use its unpopularity against democrats.. but if it stays.. so what.. insurance companies, hospitals, drug companies.. they ate all seeing record profits.

Wake up and smell the cat food.

Obama is the best Republican president since Eisenhower.