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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: What's Wrong With America Looking More Like Scandinavia? [View all]True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)But eventually the primary will require him to convince people in the party who are not impressed by the face-value of his candidacy.
If the attitude is just going to be calling those people names and pretending like anything we find inconvenient should be ignored or belittled as a FUD conspiracy, then you've already written the future of the campaign, because that story has been written many times before.
Hillary Clinton is good at working party machinery, and Barack Obama with all his charm and his massive groundwell just barely overcame her. Bernie Sanders can wish to differ from Obama on some issues, but if he despises how Obama campaigned, that will be a problem for him - and for all of us, because he's our best hope at the moment.
But again, this is still early days. Plenty of time to build a campaign.
Republicans write him off. I refuse to do so. And I hope you'll think more of Sanders than to believe he has to campaign like Adlai Stevenson to avoid being "corrupted."