Sanders Gains Ground in Nevada, Testing a Clinton Firewall

[Purveyor]

Alicia Hernandez sat on a sofa in a re-purposed Las Vegas strip-mall store on a sunny Sunday afternoon listening to a step-by-step explanation from a Bernie Sanders field office director about how a presidential caucus works.

Hernandez, 23, a daughter of immigrants who’s studying floral design at the College of Southern Nevada, received an e-mail about the training session from Sanders’ campaign after liking what she saw on his website. She came to learn how to caucus for the Vermont senator instead of Hillary Clinton.

“Hillary doesn’t feel as genuine as Bernie Sanders,” Hernandez said, ticking off his support for free college tuition, universal health care, the middle class and immigration. “We want things to change.”

Sanders needs a lot of voters like Hernandez in Nevada to overcome Clinton’s advantages in the state, which holds the third Democratic presidential nominating contest on Saturday. But there are signs on the ground, such as his ability to rally people like Hernandez to his campaign, that Sanders is gaining on Clinton in the state, which she was counting on as a western firewall after losing in the New Hampshire primary and squeaking out a narrow victory in the Iowa caucuses.

As a caucus state, Nevada is notoriously hard to poll and there are few reliable indicators of how the contest will go. Jon Ralston, a long-time observer of Nevada politics who publishes the Ralston Reports website, wrote in the Washington Post Tuesday that Sanders has been furiously funneling resources into the state. As a result, he wrote, Nevada is no longer a lock for Clinton and that within her campaign “panic is palpable.’’

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-16/sanders-gains-ground-in-nevada-testing-a-clinton-firewall

[oasis]

1. Yup, free stuff will grab most young folk's attention every time.

Count on it.

[Fawke Em]

2. Or the rejection of the "No We Can't" politics Clinton supports.

BTW, we all know nothing is free. People are astute to know that we'll be paying taxes, but when you make the corporations and elite pay, our portion will be small and we'll finally see something form our tax dollars besides war.

[oasis]

7. If someone other than Bernie uses the word "free", it becomes

A four-letter-word. It's indeed a puzzlement.

[riversedge]

32. It is no to Pie in the sky free stuff with Sanders unicorns

[daleanime]

3. And we know the rich....

already have right of first refusal on our taxes.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Of, course! Socialism for the rich, and all that.

[daleanime]

6. It would be funny....

if it wasn't true.

[oasis]

9. Maybe you should take that up with the GOP congress.

[daleanime]

13. Why should anyone in congress....

get a pass on this?

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Or maybe they are scared to death to carry student loans for the rest of their lives, and would like

a fighting chance to better themselves and their situation?

[oasis]

10. Hey, I like freebies as much as anybody. It's the promise of

freebies that have always raised my suspicions.

[roguevalley]

8. ralston is intensely reliable. as for 'free stuff' ... given that they

have robbed us blind for two decades, what we are seeking is our stuff back. Free stuff? No wonder hrc is losing in the 80%+ range anyone who can think for themselves and see the truth about the fuckedness of the past three decades. Go, young people.

[Purveyor]

11. From your keyboard to Limbaugh/Hannity/Levin's ears... eom

[oasis]

12. My "keyboard"?

Hannity, Rush an Levin have only to pick any Bernie speech and have a drinking contest on how many times he utters the word "free".

[libdem4life]

14. Ok...which part of your socialism do you want to hand back...since there seems to be a

moratoriam. Just for education and all ... Social Security, Free public school K-12, libraries, fire/police/civic duties, military and more. When Americans learn that Socialism isn't a one way trip to the Kremlin, they see that there is such a thing as Democratic Socialism and they are quickly warming up to it.

The above in the OP are old, worn out and on their way Out. Time for a new Generation. It happens. And the irony is that the Leader is an older man who isn't even a Boomer...he's between WW1 and WW2...don't think they had a generation name.

[Purveyor]

15. Indeed. What YOU wrote can be heard on any of their programs daily. I'm sure they appreciate that

you are in concurrence with them.

[oasis]

18. "Free stuff" is a magnet. I didn't learn that from

R/wing radio/tv. Sometimes I rely on common sense.

[frylock]

26. Common sense and talking points from the Clinton campaign.

[panader0]

28. The real Mr Natural is voting for Bernie....

[DirtyHippyBastard]

33. Yes he is. nt

[oasis]

34. The real me is voting for the real Hillary.

Mr. Natural can keep on truckin' back to Vermont and play checkers with his favorite candidate.

[panader0]

35. Wait, so Bernie is Mr. Natural?

Perhaps you have the wrong avatar.

[oasis]

38. It'll do until I rent a pointy H from the Hillary place.

Btw, when I wrote Mr. Natural should head back to Vermont, "his favorite candidate" was in reference to Bernie.

[myrna minx]

27. It's like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan grousing about all of those greedy little "takers".

Good grief, the longer this primary goes on, the less and less I relate to Hillary and some of her supporters. The chasm is widening by the day.

[Kall]

47. Well whatever you do,

don't dwell upon pointing out the stupidity of those people prescribing free tax cuts.

[mhatrw]

16. Weird how they don't want to pay for the entire bill the top 1% boomers left them.

Really, really strange. Why don't they just play against the stacked deck that we didn't have to!

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

17. Wall Street's free stuff" certainly grabbed Hillarity's attention.

But thanks for insulting the youth of America.

[oasis]

20. I don't blame them. Go for it, be my guest. If Bernie

can deliver, so much the better.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

23. I don't blame them either fir wanting a future.

[Uncle Joe]

19. It's not free, it was paid for by the people over the past 35 years as their wealth was

funneled to the less than 1%, now we're just working on getting it back.

[oasis]

21. Sorry, all that won't fit on a bumper sticker. Bernie's

definition of "free"is what he has to articulate to voters in the GE, should he get that far.

[Uncle Joe]

22. Time will tell but I believe the people are too aware and the stakes are too great for

"bumper sticker" mentality to rule the day.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

24. "No we can't" fits on a bumber sticker.

[frylock]

25. Did you get the email to push "free stuff" too?

[KingFlorez]

29. Indeed

Some will say it's the message, but free college tuition and free health care will put a lot of younger voters in your column if you propose it.

[oasis]

42. Bernie says "free" and he's a hero. It's tabu for you and me

to even mention the word.

[JackRiddler]

30. Those young people!

Running all over the place! Wearing strange clothes! Wanting things! Listening to that music! Shocking!

[TheBlackAdder]

31. Why not? They're stuck with the last generation sticking them with trillions in National Debt!

[SHRED]

36. This rightwing meme is a lie.

[Persondem]

40. Careful. The revolution does not tolerate dissent. You will be assimilated.

And I agree. I saw an article a couple of days ago stating that Clinton had 3 times the number of volunteers as Sanders.

[oasis]

45. Someone please tell Bernie never to use the word "free".

It's a rightwing meme, so I'm told.

[Lucky Luciano]

37. Found a good website for you...

http://www.freerepublic.com

[oasis]

43. They should change the name, "Free" Republic could unwittingly

become a magnet for uninformed youths.

[Lucky Luciano]

46. Wow...doubling down. nt

[modestybl]

44. Uh, the "stuff" we already PAID for?

... the taxes that went into public hospitals, colleges, schools, the research that went into all aspects of medical care, from drugs to CAT scans, the society that generations invested in... yes, I think ALL of us should be getting that back.

Hillary seems to think that her owners own everything...

[Lordquinton]

39. The only "firewall" Clinton has is the media

and they're starting to cover Sanders more, so yea, it's crumbling.

[kgnu_fan]

41. watching this with interest....