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2016 Postmortem

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts) Wed Mar 2, 2016, 07:47 PM Mar 2016

Back in the 80s Sanders endorsed Jesse Jackson's campaign

That was an interesting tidbit I heard on TYT this evening.

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Back in the 80s Sanders endorsed Jesse Jackson's campaign (Original Post) pdsimdars Mar 2016 OP

That's not true ejbr Mar 2016 #1

Thanks pdsimdars Mar 2016 #3

You know what would have been awesome? If Jesse had returned the favor. Cheese Sandwich Mar 2016 #2

ejbr

(5,856 posts)

1. That's not true

Reply to pdsimdars (Original post)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 07:49 PM

Mar 2016

It was the 80s

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)

3. Thanks

Reply to ejbr (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 08:11 PM

Mar 2016

I cleaned it up.

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)

2. You know what would have been awesome? If Jesse had returned the favor.

Reply to pdsimdars (Original post)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 08:04 PM

Mar 2016

That would have been real fucking cool. Like, solidarity and stuff. I'm sure he had his reasons.

I heard Jackson ran a really unique campaign by uniting a lot of local interests under the coalition banner.

The Sanders campaign should have followed that model it would have been better.

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