As Sanders’s chances vanish, the movement behind him grows
Could all that legal weed have something to do with it? My state, Washington, is also heavily pro-Sanders. FWIW I voted to legalize pot but get real.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The night of Bernie Sanders’s latest victory, in West Virginia, a growing group of his supporters in Oregon gathered 2,500 miles away and worked the phones. They skipped the candidate’s rally in Salem, an hour down the highway, and met at the east Portland office of the Bernie campaign. It was warmed by a space heater and by paintings of “Birdie Sanders,” the friendly icon named and designed after the bird that landed on his podium at a Portland speech.
Their mission: Win the May 17 Oregon primary with a supermajority, big enough to net all or almost all of the state’s 74 delegates. Then, win the nomination.
“There’s a lot of momentum behind getting to 80 percent,” said Leigha LaFleur, 41, an organizer who is also one of the “Birdie Five” delegate candidates from the state’s deep-blue 3rd Congressional District.
LaFleur and the army of Bernie (never “Sanders”) supporters in this progressive state see a path to victory if he wins landslides in coming primaries. Where bean-counters point out that Sanders’s Indiana and West Virginia wins did not get him the delegates he needed to catch Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, Bernie’s army sees momentum begetting more momentum.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-sanderss-chances-vanish-the-movement-behind-him-grows/2016/05/11/42318c9c-1791-11e6-9e16-2e5a123aac62_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_rainbow
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