The Bernie Coalition
In the past month, with Sanderss strength in Iowa and New Hampshire stubbornly growing, commentators have finally begun to compare Sanders to an actual primary winner Barack Obama.
In Iowa and New Hampshire, Barack Obama won over high-income liberals. Bernie Sanderss campaign points in a different direction.
by Matt Karp ~ 1/28/16
As we barrel down the homestretch to the Iowa caucuses, left-wing poll-watchers everywhere should allow themselves a moment to enjoy the sound of professional pundits proven disastrously wrong.
Hillary Clinton is the most dominant nonincumbent ever, declared Slates John Dickerson, reporting from Iowa one year ago. Democrats like Gov. Martin OMalley and Sen. Bernie Sanders are making moves, but few local activists even pretend that they are serious challengers to Clinton. Harry Enten, adopting the FiveThirtyEight house style of a precocious child reading statistics from the back of a baseball card, concluded last April that Clintons path to the nomination looks easier than anything weve ever seen before. Sanders, on the other hand, was a self-described socialist a sufficient disqualification for Enten to spend less time contemplating his candidacy than the threat posed by Lincoln Chafee.
Now, in the week before voting begins, Sanders finds himself in the unlikely position of early-state frontrunner: polls show him neck-and-neck with Clinton in Iowa and far ahead of her in New Hampshire ...
More here:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/01/bernie-sanders-democratic-president-primary-new-hampshire-iowa-caucus/
Sanderss achievement threatens to transform the internal dynamics within the Democratic Party.
Bernie in Wisconsin: