Bernie Sanders Keeps Winning—and Pundits Don’t Like It

[Uncle Joe]

While the political and media elites keep angling for an opening to declare that the race for the Democratic presidential nomination is finished—so they can concentrate on nothing other than their obsession with Donald Trump’s Republican circus—Bernie Sanders keeps complicating things.

By winning.

The senator from Vermont, who began his race against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton with single-digit poll numbers, and a general assumption that a democratic socialist would never be a competitive candidate, has won eight state primaries and caucuses so far. He has finished within a whisker of Clinton in the first-caucus state of Iowa and in delegate-rich Massachusetts. And in Southern states where Clinton has posted big wins, Sanders has garnered enough support to secure scores of delegates.

“We have now won by wide margins in states from New England to the Rocky Mountains and from the Midwest to the Great Plains,” Sanders declared on Sunday night.

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But Sanders is making this a real race. He is not merely attracting large crowds to rallies, getting unprecedented numbers of small donors to write checks, and battering billionaires. He is winning by wide margins in unexpected states such as Kansas (where the senator took 67 percent of the vote on Saturday) and Nebraska (where he beat Clinton by almost 10 points on the same day).

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But Sunday belonged to Sanders. In Maine, where Democrats lined up for hours to vote in packed caucuses, it was Sanders who won 64 percent, to 36 for Clinton. There are plenty of primaries and caucuses to come. Clinton will score wins, as will Sanders. It’s a real race, and it won’t be finished for a good long while.

“The pundits might not like it,” Sanders explained on Sunday night, “but the people are making history."

http://www.thenation.com/article/sanders-keeps-complicating-the-calculus-of-political-and-media-elites-by-winning/

[saltpoint]

1. The mainstream media is made up

significantly of people who want to go to high-end cocktail parties in Washington, D.C., and they're naturally drawn to Hillary Clinton, who can flash her prom queen smile at them and remind them that they're in the presence of a celebrity.

Bernie Sanders is more work than play, more chess team than cheerleader, and they don't want to hang out with him.

There's a saying that Hollywood is high school with money. That goes double for the Washington press corps.

[basselope]

8. Its even worse than that!

The mainstream media, thanks to the Telecommunications act of 1996 signed by Bill Clinton, is now made up of 6 mega-corporations.

Disney - Who owns ABC
Time Warner - Who owns CNN
Universal - Owns NBC/MSNBC/CNBC, etc..
New Corp - Owns Fox, FoxNews, FBC, many major papers.
Viacom (Even after the split, Sumner Redstone still controls CBS)
Clear Channel - Owns most of the radio stations.

These mega corporations provide LARGE donations to all of the establishment candidates.

[saltpoint]

9. And their coverage reflects their

donations.

The donations are not the same as you and I might make to a local charity, which are more modest in amount but intended to lift others in need. The big-media donations are likely checks with several zeros which say, "I am buying this much control."

Ugly stuff.

[NCTraveler]

2. What was the delegate count to start and end last week? Nt

[RufusTFirefly]

3. Q: Why would people wait in long lines to vote in a meaningless election?

A: Because they don't believe it's meaningless.

Conventional wisdom has been trying and repeatedly failing to declare this election over. The pundits started calling it for Hillary before the first vote was even cast.

What's amazing -- and inspiring -- is that instead of getting stronger over time as the message is drummed into our heads week after week, the conventional wisdom is actually losing strength. Steadily.

Thanks for posting, Uncle Joe!

[Uncle Joe]

4. Precisely and it was my pleasure, RufusTFirefly.

Peace to you.

[NorthCarolina]

5. He has done an EXCEPTIONAL job of exposing the corporate MSM

for what it is, corporate propaganda media.

Early on MSNBC shed all of their pundits with even a hint of a Bernie bent. They must have had some inkling of "trouble on the horizon".

[Jefferson23]

6. The movement won't end even if he loses, sorry bobblehead pundits.

He dared to say that corruption rests within our party too..damn that guy. lol

He dared to go up against all of them.

[Karmadillo]

7. K&R