Sanders Wins the Hearts of Clinton, Iowa!

[berni_mccoy]

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-01-25/how-sanders-won-the-heart-of-clinton-iowa

(I'm giggling a little since this is from bloomberg)

How Sanders Won the Heart of Clinton, Iowa

Polls show that Bernie Sanders has drawn level with Hillary Clinton in Iowa or perhaps even overtaken her. After attending the two Democrats' events in the town of Clinton on Saturday, I think I know why.

Hillary Clinton's event, in a well-equipped elementary school on the edge of town, was first. When the doors opened 90 minutes before the former secretary of state was scheduled to appear, there was a modest line caused by Secret Service screening. About 250 people filled the cozy auditorium, a decorous bunch in sweats and jeans of whom the only people under the age of 35 -- perhaps a dozen in all -- had come with parents or older relatives. The upbeat pop soundtrack included Pharrell Williams's "Happy."

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Not a hair moved on her head, not a wrinkle emerged on her perfectly fitting fuchsia jacket, and her perfect smile never wavered. She didn't even sip from the glass of ice water that had been set out for her. The whole performance looked like something my young daughter wants to enact with her dolls but can never achieve because her little hands are too messy.

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By the time Sanders's event was scheduled to begin, I wasn't alone making my way across town to a low-ceilinged basement room at the Masonic Center. The atmosphere couldn't have been more different. The crowd was about four times as big, and about three quarters of it was young. There were kids barely old enough to vote, girls with hair dyed every color of the rainbow, young parents with babies in their arms. The kind of young people Hillary often mentioned during her event -- only they weren't there to hear her.

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Its energy, however, was infectious even to the 40- and 50-year-olds in the hall. They, too, were moved to shout "Feel the Bern!" when the pretty girl with the nose ring standing next to them did. When I asked people after the rally why they liked Sanders better than Clinton, the leitmotif was that they had no patience for incremental change. A story Sanders had told about a woman who was paying back her daughter's student debt while she still had some of her own had resonated.

[Orsino]

1. Childish of me to be amused by this. n/t

[99th_Monkey]

2. K&R nt

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. Bernie

has the momentum and support His campaign is surrounded by enthusiasm for a better future for the middle class! The 99% are listening and they support what Bernie is saying!

GO BERNIE!

The 99% really is more powerful than the 1%!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[cascadiance]

4. I still would love to see a debate at this street corner in Iowa City where I went to school...

https://www.google.com/maps/%4041.657874,-91.534767,3a,75y,141.18h,88.95t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s3iRXTWJAfSTsFsX9LhFD7g!2e0

Note the street signs here, and note that this is one of the main intersections downtown there. A lot of very smart kids who are heavily in debt and underpaid in this location who I think would be heavily cheering Bernie on there.