Yes, Bernie Sanders can win the black and Hispanic minority vote

[cali]

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Can he attract African Americans, Latinos and other minorities nationwide? And does Sanders — an avowed democratic socialist — have the ability to do this while finding ways to win over white voters beyond the progressives fueling his surprising rise? In short, does the Sanders campaign have legs?

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Which highlights another feature of Sanders’s repertoire: Attack ads seem to boomerang. Sanders has perfected a kind of political jujitsu whereby he turns his opponents’ aggression against them by declining to respond in kind. This worked in 2005, when Republican Richard Tarrant told voters “not a single business will move to Vermont” if Sanders won a Senate seat. Sanders ignored him and won 70 percent to 30 percent.

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senator has leveraged his represention of a rural state. “Bernie has built ties to farmers across the country,” says Dexter Randall, a seventh-generation dairy farmer in Vermont’s remote “Northeast Kingdom.” “He gets us. He speaks our language.” He gets veterans, too. After Sanders voted against a 1991 resolution supporting the Gulf War, veterans turned their backs on him at a Burlington event. Chagrined, he began catering to vets, and he’s found a way to straddle the fault line between questioning the military budget and supporting those who serve. The Veterans Affairs reform bill he crafted with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2014 strengthened this bond.

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That's the skeptics’ biggest question. Pundits love to compare Sanders’s campaign to the failed efforts of stalwart liberals such as Howard Dean, George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy. They roll out Republican Barry Goldwater. But these are extraordinary times. A great many voters seem receptive to Sanders’s brand of political revolution. If he can calibrate the 1960s rhetoric to the moment, persuade minorities to join his fight and build on his connections with Middle American constituencies, his campaign could go much further than anyone — even Sanders himself — ever thought possible.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/yes-bernie-sanders-can-win-the-black-and-hispanic-minority-vote/2016/02/17/da6eb544-d118-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html

[libtodeath]

1. Bernie is sensitive to the needs and issues of specific demographics as well as everyone in general

it is not an either/or thing despite what Hillary supporters try to say.

[still_one]

2. In Denmark

[cali]

4. Oh dear. That is the best you can do.

[noretreatnosurrender]

3. Good piece

Thanks for posting.