I just never was social enough for such endeavors, I do however do door to door in my area, health depending, and find people are most receptive to his message and his consistency. The people I reach out to are apolitical in nature as they have largely given up on politics as a tool even remotely intended to help them (I live in a poor neighborhood, my people are the ones nearly all politicians ignore as they are not "middle class"
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Bernie does not ignore such people AKA the growing majority and oddly the part they like most is the socialism bits that speak of taking care of the people "Scandinavian style" with real safety nets, retirement, health, and educational provisions for those that do not make upper middle class wages. They are the ones left behind (someday I will tell you how many I know that have fallen from struggling in poverty to deepening poverty all the way to homelessness in a predictable cycle as a consequence of social services deliberately not supplying enough to keep anyone in a position to meet rent then cutting them off due to lack of valid address)
If apolitical people that have lost the will to vote are able to be convinced by a near agoraphobic such as myself to register in the Democratic party just to vote for him in the primary, I am sure he will be a viable candidate to those more active that know more about policy.
The majority in this country now are those I speak of, those that can only find jobs paying below subsistence wages, usually working multiples of them if they can be found. With so few middle class jobs left (such as the factory work that was once prevalent around here) and so many more that can find not even that work, combined with an elderly population that no longer in most cases have pensions or investments and with education out of most peoples financial reach, there is a need for the policies Bernie has advocated his entire career and thus fertile ground for voters to arise that have given up on politics since the Democratic party gave up on them and the working class, and anyone that is poor. The party lost more than half it's base when they abandoned the poor and working class, that base is still there just waiting for someone to dig a well below the upper middle class dividing line created when our party abandoned them.
Name recognition and more public knowledge of what he stands for is all he would need to win the primary and the GE. My lower and working class peers are very into social media like facebook etc, I am an outlier in that respect, please do what you can to reach them, the one thing I have had that poses any real problem for me and my efforts has been that many of these same people remember me from my '08 canvassing work I did on behalf of Barack Obama, they liked his message as well and came out to vote when they had not before, but now have expressed sentiments such as "he was full of shit, why should I believe this guy isn't as well". Obama caused a credibility problem by reversing his stances on things that effect the sub middle class voters and you will likely run into the same thing, so be prepared to show Bernie's consistency over time and voting record, you will need such evidence to answer the credibility problem caused by a politician that campaigned one way and then governed quite another way once elected regarding issues that effect people not in the upper percentile of finances.
The upper middle class may be happy with our president and believe the country is in recovery, but at the bottom things have actually gotten much worse no matter what things appear to say on paper regarding jobs and other life destroying problems.
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