So what do you think this sentence is trying to say?

[Skwmom]

"When the votes were tallied, the future Senator from Vermont fell short and lost, but the outcome set a precedent he would love to repeat on the national stage."

The winner adopted the Korean scholarship idea and made it happen.

Edited to clarify.

There's more than one way to push a meme that you want people to accept as gospel.

Does anyone really think that Hillary Clinton will adopt Bernie's ideas and make them happen? Of course not.

[arcane1]

1. What's the context?

[Skwmom]

2. Here.

It was the late 1950s, and Sanders was still a teenager, running to be class president at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York. His platform promised to raise scholarship money for kids in Korea orphaned during the recent war. “It was an unusual thing for a person so young to be involved in,” remembers Larry Sanders, Bernie’s older brother.

When the votes were tallied, the future Senator from Vermont fell short and lost, but the outcome set a precedent he would love to repeat on the national stage.

The winner adopted the Korean scholarship idea and made it happen.



They might adopt the rhetoric, but they are no Bernie Sanders.

[arcane1]

3. Not sure what the precedent is.

[SonderWoman]

4. This is getting weird.

Do people here just sit at their computer and think of ways to try and tear down HRC on a Democratic website?

[brer cat]

5. Apparently.

Posting support for their favored candidate isn't enough to satisfy their lust for blood in the water.

OT, but your sig line is very much on target.