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Bernie Sanders

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LiberalArkie

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9. Ohio and Illinois are both big machine states. Bernie appears to be carrying some of the rural but
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 07:55 PM
Mar 2016

despite what we had heard, very little of the black vote anywhere. When people were making decisions, there was no news of a person called Sanders. Even in Arkansas when I wear my Bernie shirt hardly anyone knows who he is.

I believe it has proven so far that the media does indeed control the elections. It is hard to fight the state political machines and the media at the same time.

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face it [View all] Robbins Mar 2016 OP
It's seriously not over though. retrowire Mar 2016 #1
Has Il and Mo been called? JFKDem62 Mar 2016 #2
Ohio and Illinois are both big machine states. Bernie appears to be carrying some of the rural but LiberalArkie Mar 2016 #9
Thanks nt JFKDem62 Mar 2016 #14
The media's grip is loosening, JPnoodleman Mar 2016 #15
Bernie has done something no one thought possible. Most of the states he lost (if not all) have a LiberalArkie Mar 2016 #16
Then the nation rots, withers and dies... JPnoodleman Mar 2016 #17
Easy. The final count is not in yet. nt thereismore Mar 2016 #3
I will join you xloadiex Mar 2016 #4
You're gonna sit back and let a cruz or trump take the WH??? liberalnarb Mar 2016 #18
Doubt it is Trump. Springslips Mar 2016 #5
Nothing personal, but Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2016 #6
You give up way too easy. smiley Mar 2016 #7
Give it some times to sink in. mucifer Mar 2016 #8
And he beats her. onecaliberal Mar 2016 #10
Either one sets this country back. Broward Mar 2016 #13
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2016 #11
This thought gives me a small amount of glee. white_wolf Mar 2016 #19
Even if she beats Trump, the vast majority of us still lose. Broward Mar 2016 #12
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