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supporters since he's to Clinton's left as (or more) often as he's to her right on social issues; he's someone people can imagine talking to them from the Oval Office, even without a positive policy "hook" like his infrastructure fixation--Sanders can be seen as a President in some alternate-history America where we're sane and the phrase "second Clinton Presidency" calls up jokes about her invading Brazil and England to distract from the 2-year Senate investigation into her hair color (every part of which is believable, unfortunately)
but Sanders is growing not just because he voted against IWR and Clarence Thomas and MBNA, not just because he sticks to the issues, but because he's attacking how politics has been conducted for nearly 30 years now; it's pretty apparent to anyone with a fleck of cynicism that he's a pinch hitter to save the party's reputation: he's being run (note the phrase) against Clinton more than Sanders; they're trying to recapture some Spirit of 2012--a third Obama term--but now we all remember that Obama was Emanuel's "icebreaker" against IL Dems that didn't play the game (or complained about tritium)
people will keep on aggregating to Sanders because he'd be the first step in trying to take back party and national politics from the ususal pay-to-play system, to break the walls and levers and veal-pen , where things that 70-90% of the country are literally dying for is banned from discussion because of a corporate liberum veto; that's why Sanders can sound like he's talking past the other candidates: he's laying out a bigger picture of politics rather that all the issues emerge from and operate within; the DNC's split has only meant that another Establishment candidate is being rotated in, like when you have someone wave at a baby so you can retrieve your car keys: Sanders is the candidate of people who want to be treated like goddamn adults for once
Biden and Clinton will appeal to conservatives by taking half their policies from the "lefty" bin and steal the other half from the GOP--thus and therefore they figure they'll have the Dems no matter how far they push them since we don't want to risk victory for the ever-further Right, and snap up a lot of Pub voters by showing the party hasn't "veered to the left" (as shown by that niche loony Sanders's run); Sanders appeals to Pubs and conservatives by giving the opportunity to make the political system work for them for once, to take care of business before their party can snow them with wedge social issues and class resentment as it's always done
and also now Brock's gross artillery will be pointed squarely at Biden, so be prepared for a lot of rumors about mixed-race kids or that he's secretly left-handed or something; he has little organization and missed one debate already; plus even if he gets Trumka's nod that's still the Old Politics of racking up endorsements and labor leaders knuckling to offshorers because "nobody else can win"
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