Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: Three serious questions for my fellow Bernie supporters [View all]djean111
(14,255 posts)campaign money - I believe Bernie can do just fine with our contributions. And Hillary is throwing many millions into thins like TV ads that many people do not even see. If Bernie wins the nomination, the DNC will throw their weight and money behind him.
Minority support - I think the Clinton grasp on that is vastly overrated. I also think we will start to see more lies and smears like the one from Joaquin Castro, which indicates to me that minorities are not as in the bag as the HRC camp would have us believe. I about threw up when I read that, as a woman, I would of course vote for Hillary. As voters get access to more information from the net, I think they are less and less inclined to vote in lockstep, and I think it is insulting, actually, to say they will.
Biden - I really think the only person who can be hurt by Biden is Hillary, if Biden runs. The polls you are talking about are really name recognition polls.
My grandson's contemporaries, the Reddit set, are a fairly new construct for politics and elections. Bernie's Reddit? Almost 96,000 members. Hillary's Reddit? About 600. The younger voters don't hate her, they just don't care about politics as a team sport. If they cannot vote for Bernie, they may just not vote at all, right or wrong. Hillary is same old corporate crap to them. They will not see the TV ads, they will not be taken in by mailers. They Google everything. They will watch the debates carefully. They like what Bernie has to say and they would have been happy with Liz Warren. This is not a personality-based thing.
I am starting to feel just like them.