Sanders faces stiff competition on Clinton's home turf in Arkansas
Former Arkansas Democratic governor Jim Guy Tucker is dressed in a neat blue-and-white checked shirt and blue slacks, and is sitting in a chair next to a floor-to-ceiling window overlooking the Arkansas River. Thinking of an anecdote to explain his state, he is smiling.
“I used to kid all the time: Arkansas is small enough, hell, if you don’t know somebody, you’re at least related to ’em.”
It seems too homespun, until you connect some dots. I’m sitting opposite Tucker for the very first time because he goes to church with my uncle-in-law, who used to be a minister, which is when he met my stepfather-in-law, who used to preach at the historically black Allison Memorial Presbyterian, where he met Reverend Marion Humphrey, who later became a circuit court judge. Twenty-four hours later, I’ll see Humphrey’s face grinning up from a supreme court endorsement placed on my car outside a Hillary Clinton rally.
All those connected dots are there just for someone who isn’t even from here. So you can imagine how many radiate outward from someone who spent 12 years in the Governor’s Mansion, like Hillary Clinton. And, if you’re working for the Bernie Sanders campaign, you don’t have to. It’s a reality you face every day.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/29/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-arkansas-super-tuesday
