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thereismore

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Thu Jan 7, 2016, 01:39 PM Jan 2016

Sanders Can Win the Democratic Presidential Primary — Here’s How

https://revolutionaryds.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/sanders-can-win-the-democratic-presidential-primary-heres-how/


Like Obama, Sanders must wage a protracted war characterized by carefully targeted fights. Fortunately for him, the 2016 primary calendar makes a protracted struggle more likely than in it was 2008. Super Tuesday 2016 consists of 11 contests over 872 pledged delegates compared to 23 contests over 1,681 pledged delegates in 2008, so the likelihood of Sanders suffering a devastating knockout that day will be less than it was for Obama. Another reason Super Tuesday 2016 probably won’t be a devastating blow for Sander is that 4 of the 11 contests will be caucuses, town hall-style debates and discussions where voters assemble, argue the merits of the candidates, and choose who they favor at the end of these mini-debates. Historically, caucuses are won by whichever candidate’s grassroots activists are more passionate, persuasive, and persistent. As Clinton complained in 2008:

“We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party. MoveOn didn’t even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that’s what we’re dealing with. And you know they turn out in great numbers. And they are very driven by their view of our positions, and it’s primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don’t agree with them. They know I don’t agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me.”
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MoveOn will back Bernie sonofspy777 Jan 2016 #1
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