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Democratic Primaries

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BluesRunTheGame

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Wed Jan 22, 2020, 05:28 PM Jan 2020

A lot of people don't like Bernie Sanders. [View all]

A lot of the people who’ve worked with Bernie in the House and Senate don’t like Bernie.

A lot of the people who’ve donated to those same people in the House and Senate don’t like Bernie either.

When a person is newly elected to Congress they are told to spend half of their work day chatting with wealthy donors who, we can probably assume, don’t like Bernie Sanders.

The television personalities who have shows on the cable news networks work for bosses who, for the most part, don’t like Bernie Sanders. You won’t see much love for Bernie Sanders on the corporate owned TV stations.

And yet, Bernie Sanders has a surprising amount of support from voters across the country.

In the Democratic Primary for the 2016 election I was blown away by the amount of support Bernie got. Going into it, I wouldn’t have guessed he he’d get even half half of the votes that he eventually got.

I don’t think that it is surprising that all this support for Bernie (and others like Bernie) is causing some “concern” amongst the folks who don’t like Bernie.







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