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Showing Original Post only (View all)A Political Revolutuion In The Making? The Pieces May Well Be Falling Into Place! [View all]
It's happening... and Clinton may well be unable to stop it... Could... "We The People" Finally Achieve REAL CHANGE?Media coverage of Sanders is starting to shift from dismissive to grudging respect...
There is also starting to be a change in how the Sanders campaign is getting covered in the corporate media. In Pennsylvania, the states main newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, has been consistently dismissive of the Sanders campaign, but the morning after the Temple rally, the papers front page featured a large photo showing a crush of young supports struggling to shake Sanders hand over a headline that read Sanders stirs a frenzy in visit to Temple.
As the Sanders campaign continues to surge (hes now won seven of the last eight primary contests, all by landslides or even by tsunami margins), and as polls in states like Pennsylvania and New York where he was once down by 30-40 points, narrow to low single digits weeks before the next round of primaries, Clintons team, increasingly desperate to turn things around, is reportedly shifting to a campaign strategy of disqualify him, defeat him, and unify the party later.
Even cops kids are backing Bernie
As we were heading back to our car with from the rally, my wife and I found ourselves walking behind the head of Temple Universitys police department, which had largely handled the security and traffic issues caused by the huge all-day line of people coming to attend the rally. A tall crew-cut wearing guy who looked 100% cop, when we complemented him on how his officers had handled the crowd management issue, he told us his own 21-year-old son was a Bernie supporter. SNIP
WHAT IF?
But what if, as seems increasingly likely, Trump goes to the Republican convention with the largest number of delegates but not an absolute majority, and then at a brokered convention, party leaders install an alternative candidate either Ted Cruz or perhaps a more acceptable candidate? Trump has already warned that he might in that case run as an independent or third party candidate something he clearly has the support and the money to do.
At that point wed have a three-way race between Clinton, a Republican and Trump. What would Sanders do then? His backers, who have already provided his campaign with over $140 million in small donations and seem to be a bottomless well of support, will be calling for him to run too. Perhaps he would. If it came to that, perhaps the Green Party should consider the bold idea of making him its standard bearer a move that would assure his already high-flying campaign a place on the ballot in virtually every state, and that would simultaneously suddenly catapult the Green Party from an election footnote capable of winning a percent or two of votes to a major-league party vying for the top prize (and maybe some seats in Congress into the bargain).
Maybe thats a fantasy, but its a beautiful one, entailing as it would the decimation of the two massively corrupt parties that have conspired to stymie political change in the US for generations. SNIP
At that point wed have a three-way race between Clinton, a Republican and Trump. What would Sanders do then? His backers, who have already provided his campaign with over $140 million in small donations and seem to be a bottomless well of support, will be calling for him to run too. Perhaps he would. If it came to that, perhaps the Green Party should consider the bold idea of making him its standard bearer a move that would assure his already high-flying campaign a place on the ballot in virtually every state, and that would simultaneously suddenly catapult the Green Party from an election footnote capable of winning a percent or two of votes to a major-league party vying for the top prize (and maybe some seats in Congress into the bargain).
Maybe thats a fantasy, but its a beautiful one, entailing as it would the decimation of the two massively corrupt parties that have conspired to stymie political change in the US for generations. SNIP
http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/04/07/clintons-crumbling-bernies-surging-political-revolution-offing/ SNIP
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A Political Revolutuion In The Making? The Pieces May Well Be Falling Into Place! [View all]
CorporatistNation
Apr 2016
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Yes, I have been watching the "we the people" and they are voting for Hillary, it is time for
Thinkingabout
Apr 2016
#1
It is the math, can't deny Hillary has more votes and delegates, so how is the dreamer?
Thinkingabout
Apr 2016
#3
Ten at a time will not give results he needs to obtain the needed delegates.
Thinkingabout
Apr 2016
#14
Okay, the voting results continue to show she is in the lead vote wise and delegate numbers.
Thinkingabout
Apr 2016
#17
Then she had great support last year to have lost so much support and still
Thinkingabout
Apr 2016
#21
And just where does all her support come from? Would YOU like to live in the Bible Belt?
Land of Enchantment
Apr 2016
#6
You seem confused. I vote on June 7th. Have you voted yet? If so why
Land of Enchantment
Apr 2016
#10
I am not confused, all primaries will count, all votes will count, we the people
Thinkingabout
Apr 2016
#12
No, look at the vote totals, we the people have voted more for Hillaryv than any of
Thinkingabout
Apr 2016
#31
Okay, then she has the most delegates at this time, more than any other candidate.
Thinkingabout
Apr 2016
#34
This is a silly thread. This is the exact opposite way to start a revolution.
Trust Buster
Apr 2016
#26
Hey Trust... Being Naive Never Accomplished Anything! As A former 2 time Democratic Nominee
CorporatistNation
Apr 2016
#28
You, of all people, should understand the importance of building a political coalition.
Trust Buster
Apr 2016
#36