Howard Dean claims that Hillary is our best bet for 2016. I disagree.

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54. It's early in the campaign. We haven't even held our first debate.

I was out campaigning last night and was amazed at the support for Bernie Sanders even though I am a Bernie Sanders supporter.

The percentages in the support of various groups of voters will change. I am firmly convinced of that. Right now, the support is extremely high among millennials. Older people will gradually come around. Talked to a few of them last night.

Almost everyone we approached had heard of Bernie and were on board. There was one Tea-Partier and a couple of people too busy to talk. I did not meet one person who claimed to be a Hillary supporter. Not one argument.

I think those numbers would be different among people who have been active in Democratic Party business for some years. I say that based on discussions with activists before Bernie entered the race. They may have changed their minds and may be with Bernie now.

The Bernie movement is much bigger in my part of Southern California than even I would have imagined. It's all about social media.

Remember, last time we had a very large, abrupt change in our media culture (the first widely viewed, televised debates between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960), the election outcome surprised many.

Obama used computer technology well. But in this election, the computer technology and the generation that uses it best seem to be picking Sanders.

And if you look at our history, it is about time for a populist movement to arise and change things.

Finally, the economy, the dominance of big finance, demands change. The only people happy with what is going on with Wall Street and with the role of money, wealthy individuals and corporations in controlling our news and donating to campaigns are those with money. The rest of us do not want Citizens United or the greed on Wall Street and in the huge corporations. Bernie speaks for us on that issue. And he lives what he says.