Is there still any hope for Bernie Sanders? | The Young Turks

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33. Bernie has only been running for 10-11 months. Hillary has been running since at least 2008.

Her name recognition catches the votes of a lot of politically disinterested voters.

Bernie has the votes of people who pay attention, especially young, college-aged kids and older political junkies who vet every statement on every issue as much as possible. Bernie has a politically literate voter base.

Even here on DU, it is hard to find, even among Hillary's most ardent supporters, Hillary fans who can talk the issues in detail and who understand the difference between Hillary's views and Bernie's.

Fracking is a big issue to me because I live in California. Our governor supports fracking. But water is one of our biggest problems. To risk injecting water with chemicals into our state's water household is insane in my view.

We just had a huge gas leak from gas storage tanks that were very old and not properly maintained. Took place in the area around Aliso Canyon and the Porter Ranch. It continued for months before Southern California Gas could get it under control.

That leak was not related to fracking, but it demonstrates the danger of relying on energy extraction and storage infrastructures that can fail. People got sick from the gas leak.

I strongly oppose fracking. With our climate (beautiful and sunny and hot today), we should be mostly relying on solar energy for our daytime energy. Instead HIllary is supporting fracking. I'm with Bernie on a very aggressive alternative energy and environmental protection policy. Hillary is far too weak on this issue for me.