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leftcoastmountains

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Sat Jan 23, 2016, 01:40 PM Jan 2016

In New Hampshire, signs of a strong ground game for Bernie Sanders

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Stalking the icy neighborhood streets of Nashua with a clipboard and pen in his frozen hand last weekend, Alex Chilton stood out for two reasons: His bright red hair and rosy cheeks, which belied his English heritage, and his age.

At 17, the high school senior had forgotten his gloves in the 32-degree New Hampshire weather. But it wasn't stopping him from knocking on door after door in support of the man he wants to elect president: Bernie Sanders.

Chilton, a Massachusetts resident, is one of 6,300 Sanders volunteers swarming the streets and making phone calls as the primary quickly approaches. He embodies two of the main forces that have propelled Sanders ahead of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic polls.

"My parents are from the UK and they have a more subsidized education system," Chilton explained of the reasoning behind his dedication to Sanders. "As somebody who is looking at colleges and the future, that is pretty relevant to me. So I think Bernie is the candidate who has been proposing all of those things for years now - he hasn't gone back on that message, and even if it's difficult to get those policies through, I really want someone in the White House who is fighting for those things 24/7."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/in-new-hampshire-signs-of-a-strong-ground-game-for-bernie-sanders/

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