Sanders tells Schultz: Southern Democrats are tired of being abandoned by the party (2013)

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12. It's amazing how little he's evolved.

This is two and a half years later, and well into a Primary contest, and his message hasn't adjusted to suit the audience in the slightest.

It was tone deaf then, it's tone deaf now. And as always, he's more interested in wooing the whites in these states--where both a philosophy and party change are required--than in proving himself to the existing black voters who are, overwhelmingly now, rejecting him for Clinton.

Two and a half years of working for the AA community down there would have shored up his credentials very nicely and possibly made him quite competitive in many more states. But I guess that was too hard and required attention to somebody else's concerns that didn't quite match his own.