Sanders’ Indiana victory breathes life into waning campaign

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By Andrew V. Pestano, UPI

(May 4, 2016 10:45 am) — WASHINGTON, May 4 (UPI) — Bernie Sanders caused an upset for Hillary Clinton by winning the Indiana primary on Tuesday and although the Vermont senator is far from a nomination victory, he vows the race is far from over.

Sanders received 43 delegates to Clinton’s 37 delegates after securing victory in Indiana. Polls showed the Sanders campaign trailing Clinton days ahead of the primary, so the victory came as a surprise to many.

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Fighting words from Bernie Sanders: “I know that the Clinton campaign thinks this campaign is over. They’re wrong.”

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After winning in Indiana, Bernie Sanders says he has no plans to quit the race
By The Associated Press, Salon.com

(May 3, 2016 10:28 PM) — Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that his primary bid against Hillary Clinton was far from over, pointing to his victory in Indiana and strength in upcoming races as a sign of his durability in the presidential campaign.

“I know that the Clinton campaign thinks this campaign is over. They’re wrong,” Sanders said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from New Albany, Indiana. “Maybe it’s over for the insiders and the party establishment but the voters today in Indiana had a different idea.”

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This Is Why Hillary Clinton Can’t Tell Bernie Sanders to Drop Out

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By Pema Levy, MotherJones
(May 2, 2016 06:00 am EDT) — Hillary Clinton’s lead in delegates over rival Bernie Sanders is now almost insurmountable as they move toward the conclusion of the Democratic presidential primary contest. But Clinton has not called on him to drop out of the race, for one simple reason: the example her own campaign set in 2008.

Eight years ago this month, Clinton was trailing hopelessly behind then-Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. On May 1, 2008, Clinton loaned her bankrupt campaign $1 million (following at least $10 million in earlier loans).

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We are all just this screwed: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and our muddled, perverted democracy

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By Patrick L. Smith, Salon

(May 30, 2016 05:58 am) — The consensus is not complete, but it will be soon enough. Bernie Sanders is not going to make it, as some of us forecast many months ago (and as a lot of Hillary Clinton supporters, having pitifully diminished aspirations, assumed from the first).

The dream now being all but definitively over, we must look to the post-Sanders period in this political season. What did he get done, what mark does he leave and where lie his failures? In all cases, why have things turned out as they have?

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Bernie Sanders isn’t a radical: Noam Chomsky is exactly right regarding how mainstream Bernie’s policies really are

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By Sean Illing, Salon

(April 29, 2016 10:32 am EDT) — Lost in the discussions about Bernie Sanders’s “socialism” is an obvious and important fact: What he’s actually proposing is not only not radical – it’s mainstream. Sanders decided not to dodge the “socialist” label and instead own it by contextualizing it in the broader American tradition.

He even gave a sweeping speech in which he grounded his philosophy in the tradition of FDR:

“Almost everything he [FDR] proposed was called ‘socialist.’ Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country was ‘socialist.’

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Why Bernie Sanders will, should and must stay in the race

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By JIM HIGHTOWER, Salon
(WEDNESDAY, APR 27, 2016 07:59 AM EDT) — Surprisingly, this week’s prize for “Stupidest Political Comment in the Presidential Race” doesn’t go to Donnie Trump or Ted Cruz. Rather, the honor goes to the clueless cognoscenti of conventional political wisdom. These pundits and professional campaign operatives have made a unilateral decision that Bernie Sanders must now quit the race for the Democratic nomination. Why? Because, they say: “He Can’t Win.”

Actually, he already has. Sanders’ vivid populist vision, unabashed idealism, and big ideas for restoring America to its own people have jerked the presidential debate out of the hands of status quo corporatists, revitalized the class consciousness and relevance of the Democratic Party, energized millions of young people to get involved, and proven to the Democratic establishment that they don’t have to sell out to big corporate donors to raise the money they need to run for office.

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Bernie Sanders supporters plotting path forward after primaries

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By Eric DuVall, UPI.com

CHICAGO, (Saturday, April 23, 2016 4:20 pm) — The array of liberal groups that have come together to support Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders are beginning to plot a course forward in the event he does not win the party’s nomination.

Much like the candidate himself, the groups have not conceded defeat to front-runner Hillary Clinton, but NBC News reports several groups are planning a meeting in Chicago sometime in June, after voting has ended, to explore ways to continue the “political revolution” Sanders has sought to create with his campaign’s message assailing income inequality.

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Bernie Sander’s Campaign Requested to Put City and State on Podium Signs

20160204_0545 Bernie Podium Sign Request v1.jpg WASHINGTON (Feb. 4, 2016) — In an effort to better archive the many speeches Senator Bernie Sanders has been giving on his campaign for President 2016, a request has been made to have his podium campaign signs include the city and state on them.

“There are many, many video’s out there of Bernie’s speeches,” said Daryl, a Sanders supporter. “Not having the city and state written on his podium signs causes confusion and a lack of attention to particular speeches of notable mention.”

Daryl points out that from the start, Republican candidate Donald Trump has had the city and state written on his podium signs making it very clear as to where he is speaking from.

“Republican candidate Donald Trump’s signs had had the city and state on them from the start,” said Daryl. “If the Sander’s campaign would just have this little bit of information on their podium signs, it would make tracking the speeches more accurate and less time consuming.”

Daryl later added that he thought the Sander’s campaign was merely trying to cut costs by not customizing their podium signs for each location on the campaign trial.

“I bet there must be some kind of expense conservation going on here,” Daryl said. “But what good is saving a couple of bucks if people can’t follow your current or past speeches without loosing interest and getting frustrated trying to find the right video.”

It may just be too much work to keep up with preparing dedicated signs for each of the different locations Sanders plans to speak at along the campaign trail.

And if there are any changes to any of the event locations, then a new sign would have to be printed on the fly.

Having to print and have delivered a special sign for each venue may add too much to the campaigns expense budget, and which may have prompted their using the same sign for each podium along the campaign trail.

With the price of color printers have gone down over the years, you would think this would not be a problem for the Sander’s campaign which has boasted record donations in the last quarter upwards of $20M.

Only time will tell if the Sander’s campaign will upgrade their podium signs.

“His speeches are so moving and are already part of history,” Daryl said. “You never know which one of those speeches will be responsible for realizing the political revolution he so eloquently has been advocating for.”

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