How Bernie Sanders is plotting his path to the Democratic nomination- Washington Post

[leftcoastmountains]

-The growing Sanders operation in the early states now nearly rivals the Clinton campaign. He has 54 paid staffers in Iowa and 38 in New Hampshire and dozens more coming on elsewhere, compared with 78 field staffers in Iowa and 50 in New Hampshire for Clinton. Both are far larger than any Republican campaign.

Sanders is also moving swiftly to expand his presence in South Carolina and Nevada and boost his standing among black and Latino voters. He is organizing in four states — Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Vermont — with primaries or caucuses on March 1 that his team considers opportunities for victory. He also is targeting Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, which vote later in March and where his advisers think his appeal to working-class whites can be decisive.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bernie-sanders-is-plotting-his-path-to-the-democratic-nomination/2015/09/11/08ddb472-573c-11e5-8bb1-b488d231bba2_story.html

[JeffHead]

1. "Don't underestimate me" - Bernie Sanders

[SoapBox]

2. Interesting.

At least they got the Democratic Socialist part correct.

Hmmm...Bernie got a lot of media this week...maybe it was better when he was our little secret.

[Warpy]

3. "Plotting?" Biased language much, WaPo?

I'm sure Clinton is planning hers.

Jerks.

[mak3cats]

4. "Plotting" like on a graph...

...very intelligent and methodical. The article bears this out. I think it's a big step forward in the media paying some serious attention!

[Enthusiast]

6. I got the same impression.

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[AnotherDreamWeaver]

5. Sounds good to me, K&R nt

[Babel_17]

7. It's also a reminder of 1991

It's also a reminder of 1991, when the first President Bush looked inevitable. He actually wasn't, and Bill Clinton with his vision of there being a path for his taking the nomination, and winning the election, proved to be the real man with the plan.

Here we are 24 years later and the country is noticing that there are no inevitable candidates, and that Senator Sanders was aware enough of that to have built a real challenge to the status quo politics that are running this country.

[Babel_17]

8. Here's the ad mentioned in the article

Unlike Clinton, Sanders has not begun airing costly television advertisements. On Aug. 4, when Clinton went on the air in Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders huddled with Weaver and Devine at the Capitol Hill office to weigh whether to match her on TV.

They decided not to. Instead, they husbanded most of their resources and made what Devine called an aggressive digital ad buy in the same markets — Manchester, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and others. The effort targeted voters with a short ad that clicked through to a long biographical video about Sanders.

“People are not watching 5-and-a-half seconds of it; they’re watching 5-and-a-half minutes of it, from beginning to end — the whole thing,” Devine said. “If I pay a few cents for that while our opponent is paying several million dollars [for TV ads], we are gaining a significant tactical advantage.”