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snagglepuss

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Thu Apr 14, 2016, 06:23 PM Apr 2016

Irish Times: Bernie Sanders youth electrify rally in New York!

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The creative posters, bright costumes and painted faces reflect the electricity that the oldest candidate in the US presidential race has generated among young people disillusioned with politics as usual and a “rigged” economy that has left them with diminishing opportunities to get ahead.

It’s in contrast to the carefully stage-managed Clinton rally in Baltimore last Sunday where one five-year-old’s “Go Hillary, No To Trump” sign encapsulated a more sober mood.

“He is the first candidate in our lifetime to really represent something that’s outside self-interested, self-driven, ego-maniac politics,” said Ally Fernandez (23), a student and waitress from Sleepy Hollow, New York, praising Sanders.


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For Sanders’s young supporters, Clinton is seen as a flip-flopper, untrustworthy and dishonest; Sanders, on the other hand, is authentic.



http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/bernie-sanders-youth-electrify-rally-in-new-york-1.2610672





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