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In reply to the discussion: Not since LBJ [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)I'm not speaking of you claiming that Clinton and Warren have the same position. Another Duer in this thread was trying to allege this and was telling me to google it when i asked for a link. I pointed out that a news story was out there that Clinton was quoted as having concerns about ISDS provision, but still have not seen anything about her support or standing against Fast Track or TPP to this date. If there were such news, you can bet that the media would be covering it now.
Yes, Obama had some notoriety beforehand when he spoke at the Democratic National Convention, and had a bit of help when Star Trek's Seven of Nine Borg actress Jeri Ryan had marital problems when she split up from the Republican who had the seat before Obama held the seat.
I think that there are many who have gotten to know Bernie Sanders through his town halls on talk radio that most other politicians don't have the benefit of. Now granted, that is a limited slice of voting public that he will need to grow beyond, but it is a space that knows him well, and through that experience has a lot of data to help him get his message out further than a real unknown would have.
i think we're seeing the tipping point of how the rules will soon be changed on how politican campaigns are going to be run. Maybe not officially, with the oligarchs in charge of our courts and other places with money-laden processes that has helped them so far gain more power, but Americans I think are more and more getting fed up with what's happening and NOT happening in Washington for them, and are looking in other places for those who have answers. Bernie has as much of an opportunity to be in those "other places" as any other candidate is, and people are very thirsty for real change, not just "Hope and Change" promises with little or no substance.