Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumBernie gaining ground in Florida, Ohio, Missouri, and in New York.
The political pundits counted Bernie out of the race much too early.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)in spite of everything that they've done.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!
tecelote
(5,122 posts)Bernie needs exposure and that is all. No tweaks or soundbites. The more people see of Bernie, the greater support he gets.
That's why this election is the most rigged in our history.
If Bernie had Hillary or (imagine) Trump's publicity, there would be no contest. Bernie would win by a landslide.
Everyone in the media knows it too.
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)Who pays their salaries?
Lochloosa
(16,063 posts)The six corporations that collectively control U.S. media today are Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdochs News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal. Together, the big six absolutely dominate news and entertainment in the United States. But even those areas of the media that the big six do not completely control are becoming increasingly concentrated. For example, Clear Channel now owns over 1000 radio stations across the United States. Companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are increasingly dominating the Internet.
But it is the big six that are the biggest concerns. When you control what Americans watch, hear and read you gain a great deal of control over what they think. They dont call it programming for nothing.
Back in 1983 it was bad enough that about 50 corporations dominated U.S. media. But since that time, power over the media has rapidly become concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people
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In 1983, fifty corporations dominated most of every mass medium and the biggest media merger in history was a $340 million deal.
n 1987, the fifty companies had shrunk to twenty-nine.
n 1990, the twenty-nine had shrunk to twenty three.
n 1997, the biggest firms numbered ten and involved the $19 billion Disney-ABC deal, at the time the biggest media merger ever.
[In 2000] AOL Time Warners $350 billion merged corporation [was] more than 1,000 times larger [than the biggest deal of 1983].
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)that always ends in monopolies. Power to the corporations! What a fucking scam!
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,306 posts)Many of the talking heads you see on TV and more importantly, their bosses would be significantly impacted by Bernie's tax increase on the wealthy, and so are strongly motivated to dissuade people from supporting him.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)If Bernie had the publicity that other candidates had, he would win by a major landslide.
As it stands, the more people find out about Bernie, the more they love him.
We also have to be concerned with the large number of unaffiliated and independent voters who will vote in the general election. They do not like Clinton, and when Bernie is the nominee, he shall have their support, and win the presidency.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)deacon_sephiroth
(731 posts)The media also understand very well WHY they must bury Bernie. The people's support of Bernie Sanders is an obvious indictment of the corrupting influence of money in politics and it's a very short jump to the indictment of money in the media. "What's next?!" the oligarchs are saying. "They'll want an informed electorate? Journalism? Unbiased information? Not on our watch!"
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!
ellennelle
(614 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)automated
all they asked was :
Do you plan to vote?
Dem. or Gop?
Exact age?
Sex?
Clinton or Sanders?
Support vs. strongly support?
when my response was "strongly" support Sanders, the line disconnected without even a thank you for participating in our poll.
Interesting they did not ask about range of income or level of education.
Sounds like an internal Clinton poll to me, what with the rude ending and all.
Maybe now they'll take me off their snail mail begging list.
God, I'm so sick of the Clintons. This is 2008 all over again.
And if Obama was not African American he would of lost. It was going to be closer IMO but her race baiting in 2008 drove many whites onto Obama camp. Dem party is not place too do that crap. Brock is a GOP at heart and his mind set is oh I am a bit racist so all whites deep down must be too.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)How big is the gap between Sanders and Clinton among people registered as dem affiliated?
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)And there's been some issues. I've heard about many who switched from Ind to Dem to vote for Sanders didn't have their change registered. And several lifelong Dems who's registration was mysteriously changed to Ind.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)She voted the first time no problem and they had the changes correct. The next election they had switched her info back so that it was not correct, trying to deny her vote. Unfortunately for them, she checks because we don't trust this Republican state. She caught the switch and made them switch it back. When she asked how that could happen they just kept trying to say the change hadn't registered despite it being correct the first time out.
They are going to cheat in many ways, big and small. We need to remain vigilant at all times. Wish we could organize our own exit polling, because I believe there will be a lot of electronic voter fraud going down!
gordyfl
(598 posts)And that was as of 3 days ago. Early voters are usually older voters.
Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)Enough to give his supporters hope for this week and not have to listen to a barrage of questions about when he will quit. Sure he's got a fight ahead of him. It's not easy taking on the establishment.
jillan
(39,451 posts)Hillary. Just like Jeb was there for his brother.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Whether she succeeds is a different matter (although still likely).
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Some resignation to her being the nominee, yes, but that's not enough to win the votes we'll need.
The Republicans might be handing us the Presidency though, and we'll get those votes by default.
What an uninspiring prospect, and one I don't want to bank on. And for the long term good of the party we need the new kinds of votes Sanders is getting.
revbones
(3,660 posts)Not questioning it, just want to read.