I caucused for Bernie in Nebraska today - astounding story
It was my first-ever caucus, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I thought Bernie would need all the help he could get against Hillary. Was I ever wrong!
People were getting up to speak on behalf of their candidates, and the speeches were all from Bernie supporters. I was inspired to stand up and speak, as well. Although I hadn't prepared to speak, my speech apparently went over well enough that I was invited to be a county delegate--something I regretfully had to turn down, because of health issues and urgent family commitments. Still, it was flattering to know that my impromptu speech had impressed my peers.
I live in a rural Nebraska county, and what astounded me was the difference between the Bernie and HRC supporters. Bernie's supporters were diverse--white, non-white, male and female, and every living generation of voting age (Silent, Boomers, Gen X'ers, Millennials). We even had a lifelong Republican switch parties, just to caucus for Bernie! The Hillary supporters were exclusively white Boomer women. No exceptions.
There was one undecided person, and it was up to the rest of us to convince him to go to one side or the other. All was going well, until a Hillary supporter dredged up the old "he's unelectable" excuse. I respectfully pointed out that independent voters win elections (since most Republicans and Democrats vote for their respective candidates), and Hillary's disapproval ratings are abysmal among independents.
Things had been going so well, that I was astounded by what happened next.
Another woman on the sparsely-populated Hillary side of the room began a long, rambling speech about her college days in the 1970's with a woman she's still friends with now. This had nothing whatsoever to do with this particular undecided voter's question, but we patiently listened anyway. This woman said that her friend had volunteered for Bernie, but later said that she would never vote for Bernie. Of course, we wondered why, and waited for her to elucidate.
To the shock of nearly every sane person in the room, she started saying that this friend of hers would never elaborate on why she had turned on Bernie, so there must be some horrible story about him. The speaker went into full concern-troll mode, saying that if Bernie were our nominee, the Republicans would dig up this oh-so-awful story and use it against him in the general election.
Which, of course, begs the question of how this "story" has never been dug up by any of the Republicans he's been running against since the 1970's!
I was just about to say as much, when someone simply muttered, "This is slander," and a lot of the Sanders supporters became upset by this tabloid-level rumormongering. Even the other Hillary supporters said nothing in defense of this woman's accusations...which, again, had nothing to do with the issues or the question the undecided voter had asked.
In the end, that particular voter joined the Sanders side. 
I'm not naming the county where this took place because of certain 4chan trolls who have attacked one of my feminist DU posts on their board. However, I can give you the results of the caucus, rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent:
Bernie Sanders - 74.5%
Hillary Clinton - 25.5%
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Hippie blue jeans!!
I was being silly.
My husband is Jewish... his family is from Poland... like our main man, Bernie.
