{"id":976,"date":"2016-04-30T16:04:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T20:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/?p=976"},"modified":"2016-05-02T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:30:04","slug":"the-best-reporting-on-bernie-sanders-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/2016\/04\/30\/the-best-reporting-on-bernie-sanders-over-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The best reporting on Bernie Sanders over the years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[pe2-image src=&#8221;https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-1axP9tDBWZA\/VyeAKZpoOUI\/AAAAAAAABIA\/lvY-ZgdN-Aga3tVIQsGLS3M5O_aEQ8_gQCHM\/s144-c-o\/20160430_1607%2BThe%2Bbest%2Breporting%2Bon%2BBernie%2BSanders%2Bover%2Bthe%2Byears%2B%2528bangordaily%2529.jpg&#8221; href=&#8221;https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/102930737536139888016\/CampaignV4April#6280129121563982146&#8243; caption=&#8221;The best reporting on Bernie Sanders over the years By Sarah Smith, ProPublica (April 30, 2016 4:07 p.m.) &#8212; Bernie Sanders became the first socialist mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and ran successfully as an Independent for the House of Representatives and then the Senate. Now, the Democratic challenger to Hillary Clinton has young voters \u201cfeeling the Bern.\u201dThe political career of Bernie Sanders nearly ended before it began. In the early 1970s, he lost his first four races \u2014 two for the Senate and two for governor \u2014 running on the ticket of Vermont\u2019s radical Liberty Union Party, while espousing positions such as ending the Vietnam War and abolishing the CIA. But when he ran as an Independent for mayor of Burlington in 1981, the socialist Sanders beat the five-term Democratic incumbent. http:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/?p=976&#8243; type=&#8221;image&#8221; alt=&#8221;20160430_1607 The best reporting on Bernie Sanders over the years (bangordaily).jpg&#8221; ] The best reporting on Bernie Sanders over the years<br \/>\n By Sarah Smith, ProPublica<br \/>\n (April 30, 2016 4:07 p.m.) &#8212; Bernie Sanders became the first socialist mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and ran successfully as an Independent for the House of Representatives and then the Senate. Now, the Democratic challenger to Hillary Clinton has young voters \u201cfeeling the Bern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The political career of Bernie Sanders nearly ended before it began. In the early 1970s, he lost his first four races \u2014 two for the Senate and two for governor \u2014 running on the ticket of Vermont\u2019s radical Liberty Union Party, while espousing positions such as ending the Vietnam War and abolishing the CIA. But when he ran as an Independent for mayor of Burlington in 1981, the socialist Sanders beat the five-term Democratic incumbent.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2016\/04\/30\/the-point\/the-best-reporting-on-bernie-sanders-over-the-years\/\">Read more<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pe2-image src=&#8221;https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-1axP9tDBWZA\/VyeAKZpoOUI\/AAAAAAAABIA\/lvY-ZgdN-Aga3tVIQsGLS3M5O_aEQ8_gQCHM\/s144-c-o\/20160430_1607%2BThe%2Bbest%2Breporting%2Bon%2BBernie%2BSanders%2Bover%2Bthe%2Byears%2B%2528bangordaily%2529.jpg&#8221; href=&#8221;https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/102930737536139888016\/CampaignV4April#6280129121563982146&#8243; caption=&#8221;The best reporting on Bernie Sanders over the years By Sarah Smith, ProPublica (April 30, 2016 4:07 p.m.) &#8212; Bernie Sanders became the first socialist mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and ran successfully as an Independent for the House of Representatives and then the Senate. Now, the Democratic challenger to Hillary Clinton has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,167,29,84],"tags":[173,688,683,690,107,684,129,685,169,237,686,550,434,689,687,653],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders-2016","category-campaign-2016","category-news","category-politics","tag-173","tag-amendment-king","tag-april-30","tag-bangor-daily-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-burlington","tag-campaign-2016","tag-feel-the-bern","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-independent","tag-mayor","tag-presidential-campaign-2016","tag-presidential-primary","tag-rolling-stone","tag-socialist","tag-vermont","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}