Bernie Sanders running strong among Kansas Democrats

[leftcoastmountains]

-The insurgent presidential candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders is injecting some unaccustomed energy and uncertainty into Kansas Democratic presidential politics.

As the self-described socialist from Vermont is surging in national polls against the once-seemingly invincible Hillary Clinton, grassroots Kansas Democrats are organizing to try to get him a win in the state’s caucuses in March that will choose their delegates to the Democratic National Convention.

They’ve been holding meetings and campaigning at public events, including the Kansas State Fair this week. And they have an active presence on Facebook locally.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article35052534.html#storylink=cpy

[KansDem]

1. Leave it to the Eagle to get the barbs in...

The article is about Sanders, yet we read praise for Hillary and some lame comment from a f*cking Kansas Republican--

So far, there’s been no evidence of any organized movement for Clinton in Kansas. But Vickie Stangl, a freelance writer and former political science instructor at Wichita State University, says don’t count out the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state.

“I’m ready for Hillary,” she said. “I was ready for her back in 2008” when she lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama.

Stangl said she respects Sanders and his commitment to fighting for his causes, but says that Clinton is the one who could actually get things done as president.

“She does the daily grind,” Stangl said. “I feel very comforted and comfortable with that. It seems to me she’s behind the scenes doing the work nobody else wants to do.”

Of the possibility of a Sanders nomination, she said “I hope we don’t mess this up and take down the candidate (Clinton) who is a knight in shining armor compared to everyone else.”
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Possibly the man who’s rooting hardest for Sanders to win the Democratic nomination is Kelly Arnold, chairman of the state Republican Party.

“We would be happy to have Bernie Sanders as the Democratic nominee here in Kansas,” Arnold said. “I don’t know if you could find anybody else we’d rather have.”

Arnold said he doesn’t think Sanders’ socialist leanings – he supports guaranteed government health care and free college educations for all – will play at all well in conservative Kansas.

“People in Kansas are hard-working,” Arnold said. “They don’t want somebody like Bernie Sanders coming in here raising taxes to give millions of people free stuff.”

But then, Wichita is "Koch Country"...

[leftcoastmountains]

2. Yeah saw that but I was surprised to see anything about Bernie.

We just need him to win the primaries at this point.
I say just take the positive and run with it.