Seeking an Upset, Sanders Campaign Searches for Votes in Pennsylvania’s Lost Communities

[Baobab]

Seeking an Upset, Sanders Campaign Searches for Votes in Pennsylvania’s Lost Communities: Much of the state has been battered by the trade deals Sanders vigorously opposes.

http://www.thenation.com/article/seeking-an-upset-sanders-campaign-searches-for-votes-in-pennsylvanias-lost-communities/

" “We’re going to be competitive here,” Hughes promises when we meet for a drink in Philadelphia’s Center City. It’s only his third day in the state, and he’s been constantly on the move, from Scranton—where the campaign opened its first office on March 22—to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and points in between. “Why Scranton?” I ask, since the town is associated more with Joe Biden, who was born and raised there—as was Hillary Clinton’s father, Hugh Rodham—than with the Brooklyn-born Sanders.

“So many communities in this state have been left behind.”

“Scranton has been decimated by trade deals,” Hughes replies. “And it reminds me of my hometown: Syracuse, New York—a place where people work factory jobs paying $8 or $9 an hour.” Hughes, who said he got hooked on politics at a public school whose student body was “60 percent black, 20 percent Vietnamese, and 20 percent white,” added: “We want to take the senator’s message to places that haven’t seen a presidential campaign in a long time.”

[haikugal]

1. Good for them...there are numerous people in PA who are struggling.

[jillan]

2. Too bad Biden can't go campaign with Bernie in Scranton.

Maybe in the GE

[nc4bo]

3. Remember the Fusion Focus Group in 2015? Iowa's Other Side video.....

The forgotten ones. The ones the candidates never manage to visit. The invisible ones.

Look at the video. It'll make your soul scream.

The Sanders campaign is 100% spot on with going into these forgotten pockets.

Good job Bernie campaign! Bring the message to the people.

[Baobab]

4. Government procurement being changed

Do people realize that we may not be able to do most of the things we've done in the past to help these areas soon? Perhaps even before the election. (lame duck session)

Example of framing

https://www.citizen.org/documents/tafta-procurement-factsheet.pdf

http://www.iatp.org/tradesecrets/local-foods.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_eProcurement

[appalachiablue]

5. K&R So glad to see this, damn. Someone cares about these abandoned communities, Bernie-

[Baobab]

6. "Abandoned" only because of one business model's aging-

Other business models might find some major value there- we have to figure out what that optimal model to do that is-

Our focus on "efficiency" is counterproductive at times- its really a bad thing at others.

Societal resiliency and strength needs more appreciation for the benefits of economic diversity.