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GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)
Sun Mar 27, 2016, 01:37 PM Mar 2016

Sanders Follows Obama's 2008 Path to Nomination

1. Obama Donors Now Support Sanders



2. Sanders Wins Alaska by the same margin as Obama 2008 and twice the turnout:

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is projected to win the Alaska caucuses.

He will take a majority of the state's 16 pledged delegates. With 38 percent of the vote in, AP reports that Sanders leads with nearly 79 percent.

Clinton also lost Alaska in 2008, when then-Sen. Barack Obama took 75 percent support.


http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/dem-primaries/274323-sanders-wins-alaska-caucuses

3. Sanders Win Obama's Home State Handily

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders clinched a decisive victory in Hawaii's Democratic presidential poll Saturday, on a day with turnout that rivaled numbers seen in 2008 when Hawaii-born Barack Obama made his first bid for the White House.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Sanders garnered 23,530 votes, or 70 percent of the ballots, Democratic Party of Hawaii officials announced Saturday night. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got 10,125 ballots cast, or 30 percent of the vote.


http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/31562884/hawaii-democrats-expect-high-turnout-saturday-for-tight-presidential-vote

2008 numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Democratic_caucuses,_2008
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Sanders Follows Obama's 2008 Path to Nomination (Original Post) GreatGazoo Mar 2016 OP
That's incredible. /nt Ash_F Mar 2016 #1
Obama also dominated the south MadBadger Mar 2016 #2
The media was comparatively fair to Obama v Clinton vs now. Ash_F Mar 2016 #3

Ash_F

(5,861 posts)
3. The media was comparatively fair to Obama v Clinton vs now.
Sun Mar 27, 2016, 02:43 PM
Mar 2016

Without tv/radio, people need to have internet access to get good coverage on Sanders.

Bernie's campaign just needs 4 minutes with every American

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