A Dozen Reasons Bernie’s Supporters Are Justifiably Angry at the Media Right Now
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7. $140 million.
That’s a number, right? It’s the amount of money raised in the most populist campaign-funding process ever employed by a candidate for President of the United States. It is an historic achievement that was considered not just a figurative but a literal impossibility a mere eleven months ago. It proved to a nation that a corrupt campaign finance system and a disastrous ruling by the Supreme Court that “corporations are people” could be unofficially abrogated by the will of the people. And not rich people, either — working-class and middle-class people. Does Bernie deserve a medal for this? No. But how about some television coverage? How about that $140 million figure being every bit as big — and historic — a political news story as anything Donald Trump has done or said since June of 2015? How is a single Donald Trump tweet about Heidi Cruz worth about as much airtime as the most amount of money raised by a grassroots political campaign in the history of — well, I’ll say it because it’s true — human civilization?
8. 2,383.
That’s the number of delegates Hillary Clinton needs to reach to secure the Democratic nomination without super-delegates. Nate Silver — the nation’s top polling expert — says it is “very possible” she won’t get to that number, which means Bernie Sanders will be in Philadelphia this summer trying to make his case to super-delegates that he’s more electable than Hillary.
A case which, not for nothing, all present polling data passionately supports (see both above and below) . But somehow Bernie should seriously consider “standing down”?
9. Twenty-four.
That’s how many points Bernie Sanders beats Trump by in the latest head-to-head polling — the largest margin between two first-tier major-party candidates that we’ve seen in many election cycles. Sanders beating Trump 58% to 34% could not only give the Democrats the Senate but the House also, and not only the House but possibly a commanding majority in both the House and Senate. Apologies for, you know, wanting that, but it could be a generational shift in the political center of gravity in America. Then again, hey — those demented, in-denial Sanders supporters, am I right? It’s just a historically eye-opening poll by one of the nation’s top polling organizations — chill out, Bernie bros.
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THE REST:
https://www.laprogressive.com/bernie-and-the-media/
(the whole thing is IMO a must-read)
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