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Bernie Sanders Will Win the New Hampshire PrimaryA message to Wall Street, Washington, big Pharma, big media, super-PACs, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
By Brent Budowsky Observer
12/10/15 9:25am
Supporters hold signs for Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Photo: Darren McCollester/Getty Images)
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Doesnt the long subtitle of this column tell the story?
A new poll of New Hampshire voters released on Wednesday by CNN/WMUR found Senator Bernie Sanders leading former Secretary of State by a double digit margin of 50 percent to 40 percent.
Individual polls come and go but New Hampshire voters have a long and storied history of confounding experts, ignoring pundits and sending big and powerful messages that they want America to hear.
In a matter of weeks, New Hampshire voters will tell the nation they are fed up with bank ripoffs, Wall Street windfall profits, rising health care costs, stagnant wages, unfair economics, a perpetually rigged political system and media elites who are out of touch with the hopes and dreams of real Americans.
New Hampshire voters will prove their independence from the outside experts who tell them what to do, and will give Mr. Sanders a shocking victory that will be heard across the nationwhether the insiders and elites like it or not and they wont like it!
Following my last column criticizing Time for including Donald Trump and neglecting Bernie Sanders in its finalists for Person of the Year, I received a number of heartfelt emails from Sanders supporters thanking me for making their case. I greatly appreciated all of them, especially one from a woman named Sarah, who wrotecorrectlythat there is a media blackout against Mr. Sanders. I can only speak for myself, but I am one mainstream media columnist boycotting the blackout because Mr. Sanders and his supporters have important things to say that deserve to be heard.
Sanders supporters should be laughing at the way Person of the Year played out. First, Time took a pass on naming Mr. Trump as its person of the year and chose German Chancellor Angela Merkel instead. Then, Mr. Trump complained that Time was being unfair by not choosing him. Then Time, proving that not all juveniles are under age 18, retaliated by releasing a video of a bird that did not like Mr. Trumps hair.
While a magazine that used to be great jousted with the Republican frontrunner about the injustice of awarding prizes and the great issue of a bird not liking a hairstyle, Mr. Sandersthe conscience of the Democratic Partywas condemning the injustice of the death of one more black American by one more trigger-happy policeman in Chicago.
Yes, there is a media blackout of Mr. Sanders, but in the end, it doesnt matter...
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More: http://observer.com/2015/12/bernie-sanders-will-win-the-new-hampshire-primary/
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)riversedge
(70,191 posts)INdemo
(6,994 posts)down to the end and states like Indiana wil make a difference for Bernie. Its not over till its over.
So Bernie could actually win enough delegates with an "overtime" victory.
He is going to win Iowa and with NH the media will be forced to cover him and thus gain the recognition.
GO!
WillyT
(72,631 posts)It's happened before.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)artislife
(9,497 posts)I cannot wait until this gets going.
Go Bernie, go!
peacebird
(14,195 posts)Love the sound of that!
Faux pas
(14,668 posts)in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)<snip>
There is a media blackout by television companies owned by corporate behemoths Disney, Comcast, Time Warner and Rupert Murdochs News Corps. This is not surprising. They are so desperate for ratings they hang on every word of Mr. Trump and are so hostile to the challenge against economic unfairness Mr. Sanders leads that they would not give him a fair dose of air time if a hundred birds were pulling out every strand of Mr. Sanders hair because he would use the moment to advocate breaking up Wall Street, giving students a free public college education, and creating a Medicare for all healthcare system!!!
So true! He would! He stays on message, never to be swayed.
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE
firebrand80
(2,760 posts)watch
brooklynite
(94,503 posts)http://www.wmur.com/politics/bernie-sanders-holds-town-hall-meetings-in-nh/34498420
http://www.wmur.com/news/bernie-sanders-speaks-to-students-at-unh-sunday/35385044
http://www.wmur.com/politics/senator-bernie-sanders-hosts-town-hall-meeting/36169406
http://www.wmur.com/politics/sanders-holds-town-hall-in-salem-sunday/34877354
http://www.wmur.com/news/bernie-sanders-speaks-at-unh-criticizes-ben-carson/35386628
http://www.wmur.com/politics/new-hampshire-unions-endorse-bernie-sanders-for-president/36182896
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/1072901-469/bernie-sanders-drops-by-nashua.html
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/opinion/letters/1074254-465/sanders-has-been-right-on-world-issues.html
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/opinion/editorials/1069706-465/the-phenomenon-of-bernie-sanders.html
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/1062782-469/sanders-returns-to-nh-as-presidential-candidate.html
http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/presidential-candidate-bernie-sanders-speaks-in-keene/article_0bced05a-0fbe-53be-88d6-66660429ad9a.html
http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/bernie-sanders-visits-keene-for-first-time-as-presidential-candidate/article_ac0b4ce0-4fa4-5327-b62c-159f24bdec14.html
http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/sanders-scores-n-h-labor-union-endorsement/article_324e0255-53af-5178-9cee-1b73b62d531a.html
http://www.unionleader.com/Iron-workers-union-endorses-Bernie-Sanders
http://www.unionleader.com/Bernie_Sanders_NH_hires&source=RSS
http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20151030/NEWS0605/151039950
frylock
(34,825 posts)OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Sanders should be grateful.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)in a newspaper owned by Donald Trump's son in law. Hmmmmm - I'm going to have to think about this one.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)Dirty Machine, and it is going to take ALL of our collective energy, time, money, and VOTES to break the Machine DOWN. We can't take *anything* for granted or become even slightly complacent!
Also: Go Bernie, GO!!!
Duval
(4,280 posts)Thanks so much!!
WillyT
(72,631 posts)sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)is the uber beneficiary of political spending and must control the political narrative to remain so.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 10, 2015, 07:49 PM - Edit history (1)
Don't think that New Hampshire won't have an impact. Although President Johnson technically won the New Hampshire Primary in 1968, the impressive performance of underdog Gene McCarthy set in motion political events that drove LBJ from the race. The primary was held following the Tet offensive, which US combat forces also technically won, but that paled against the fact that it happened at all. If the government had been telling the truth about the situation in Vietnam, it wouldn't have happened.
There is a reason why Bernie should wiin. Anyone who reads between the lines of this piece can see it. It was posted by a Hillary supporter on DU yesterday. The piece, ironically titled Sanders: Why he can't win, was written by notorious neoliberals supporting Mrs. Clinton and her corporate agenda: William Daley, former White Hous Chief od Staff and former executive committeeman at JPMorgan Chase; founder of the neoliberal think tank Third Way and professional wishful thinker Jon Cowan; and Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, Vice President of Third Way. The authors of the piece reiterate Cowan's nonsense about the revolution isn't happening, and this after acknowledging that voters are angry and even conceding that voters believe "the system is rigged against them." However, the authors assure their readers that what the voters aren't angry, just anxious. Without mentioning the worldwide economic collapse of 2008 that was caused by the risky behavior of Wall Street banks gambling with their depositors' money, the authors simply explain away job losses and the dwindling numbers of the American middle class by talking about new technology replacing old, and that's a good thing and people accept it because that's the way the world works. It isn't caused by rich guys pulling the strings, like the unmentioned Wall Street Bankers who gambled away your money on mine on risky investments without telling us.
I suppose one should expect an article written by three establishmentarians who would like nothing better than to wish away voters' anxiety and anger to come up with such a heaping pile of steer manure. First of all, they don't seem to realize that anxiety and anger often go together rather then being an exclusive either/or matter. Second, they wouldn't dare suggest that voters are anxious and angry because the system is rigged, would they?
Of course, they would never try to deflect voters' anxiety and anger about the economic situation in America or the world at large away from the candidate of the establishment, Hillary Clinton, would they?
It is all too obvious that voters think the system is rigged because the system is rigged.
It's not far cry from the "voters are angry at the politicians" to "voters are angry at the politicians and the corrupt corporatists who who own them," Mr. Cowan's think tank is the middle man in commerce between corrupt politicians who sell themselves and the corrupt corporations who buy them.
Robbins
(5,066 posts)it's going to get ugly.Nevada could be even uglier than it was In 2008.remember allegations clinton people tried to keep pro-obama
union people from voting.Bernie has more support than obama did at this time among hispanics.Nevada is still caucus.and remember back in 2008 she won popular vote In nevada but obama won more delegates In Nevada.
Expect more bernie is racist smears to happen before SC if bernie wins both iowa and NH as i think he can.