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(24,544 posts)Which is not all that surprising considering there has not been very much lobbying of any candidate in this forum and I think alot of us are pretty ambivalent. I think we've just been spoiled rotten by having a Barack Obama to choose from the last two elections.
I think what Bernie says resonates with alot of people, but like you said, that doesn't necessarily resonate into votes. There was a really interesting article that I just read that talked alot about how since the 1980s, there has always been a (predominantly white, male) Democrat that gets the early buzz, the big crowds, gets touted in the media as the "one to watch" and then fizzles out. From Gary Hart to Howard Dean and they were very quick to put Sanders in that list as well. The article was written by a former Obama advisor.