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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 11:35 AM Jun 2016

Clinton hires Sanders' top student organizer

Hillary Clinton’s team is moving to shore up an area where she urgently needs help — the campaign has hired Bernie Sanders' director of student organizing to serve as her national campus and student organizing director, a Clinton official confirmed to POLITICO.
Kunoor Ojha is the Clinton campaign’s first major hire from the Sanders campaign, and her move to a role where she will work with the state teams to mobilize young voters represents a significant step in the former secretary of state’s outreach to the Vermont senator’s most ardent backers

Sanders routinely outperformed her by massive margins among the youngest voting age groups, and Clinton has repeatedly said that she admires Sanders’ strength among that group. The demographic has provided the backbone for Sanders’ support, and his stump speech often directly insists that this kind of support means his campaign represents the future.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/clinton-hires-sanders-student-organizer-224166#ixzz4BBv316Re
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Clinton hires Sanders' top student organizer (Original Post) sufrommich Jun 2016 OP
Awesome news! grossproffit Jun 2016 #1
Very glad to hear this. auntpurl Jun 2016 #2
But I heard that Hillary staff and Bernie staff could never work together. onehandle Jun 2016 #3
Lots of broken crystal balls on DU. emulatorloo Jun 2016 #5
So is that how #GirlIGuessImWithHer marketing came about? Jackilope Jun 2016 #4
"To mobilize young voters"- Tuition and student loans? DianaForRussFeingold Jun 2016 #6
But it's not over yet? MyNameGoesHere Jun 2016 #7

auntpurl

(4,311 posts)
2. Very glad to hear this.
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 11:40 AM
Jun 2016

Hopefully Bernie can be the surrogate ambassador on college campuses while he's stumping for Hillary.

DianaForRussFeingold

(2,552 posts)
6. "To mobilize young voters"- Tuition and student loans?
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 12:06 PM
Jun 2016
How bout it?

"MAKE TUITION FREE AT PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.

STOP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FROM MAKING A PROFIT ON STUDENT LOANS

SUBSTANTIALLY CUT STUDENT LOAN INTEREST RATES.

ALLOW AMERICANS TO REFINANCE STUDENT LOANS AT TODAY’S LOW INTEREST RATES.

ALLOW STUDENTS TO USE NEED-BASED FINANCIAL AID AND WORK STUDY PROGRAMS TO MAKE COLLEGE DEBT FREE.

FULLY PAID FOR BY IMPOSING A TAX ON WALL STREET SPECULATORS."

"In a highly competitive global economy, we need the best-educated workforce in the world. It is insane and counter-productive to the best interests of our country and our future, that hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college, and that millions of others leave school with a mountain of debt that burdens them for decades. That shortsighted path to the future must end."
https://berniesanders.com/issues/its-time-to-make-college-tuition-free-and-debt-free/
 

MyNameGoesHere

(7,638 posts)
7. But it's not over yet?
Fri Jun 10, 2016, 12:27 PM
Jun 2016

They may need this person to count those magic votes in California that would change... Nothing.

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