A Political Revolution is Happening - Among Republicans--NOt a Sanders Political Revolution

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A Political Revolution is Happening - Among Republicans
With Trump running, GOP turnout has smashed records, but Democratic voting is down across the board.





........Democrats, by comparison, have seen turnout down across the board. That’s proven to be a big problem for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Socialist Democrat who has predicated much of his candidacy on fomenting a political revolution.
Graph showing total voter turnout in the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire in 2008 and 2016.

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Sanders has excused the downturn by pointing out that the 2008 election, in which Clinton faced off against then-Sen. Barack Obama, shattered political records.

Asked Wednesday if the low turnout was a sign that his political revolution was failing to materialize, Sanders brushed aside the inference.
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Riding high in the days after crushing Clinton in the New Hampshire primary, Sanders predicted he was on his way to surpassing Obama’s success in bringing disaffected voters into the political process.

“I think he has made the effort,” Sanders said of Obama in an interview with MSNBC on Feb. 11. “I think what we need, when I talk about a political revolution, is bringing millions and millions of people into the political process in a way that does not exist right now.”

On Wednesday, he had changed his tune.



While dismissing the suggestion that his path to winning enough delegates to secure the nomination was narrowing, Sanders seemed to acknowledge that he may not be replicating Obama’s remarkable success after all.

“Maybe we can’t run as extraordinary a campaign” as Obama, he said















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Black mothers who lost children to violence help Hillary Clinton appeal for gun control http://wpo.st/rK2F1



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Hillary Clinton sits with Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin (left), at Central Baptist Church in Columbia, S.C., on Tuesday Feb. 23, 2016.(Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Sitting alongside African American women who have lost children to violence, a somber Hillary Clinton pleaded for more effective gun control on Tuesday as she began a final push to consolidate black support ahead of the first Democratic primary in a southern state.

“Something is very wrong when we have these incidents where kids can get arrested for petty crimes and lose their lives,” Clinton said. “Something is wrong when African Americans are three times more likely to be denied a mortgage as white people are, when the median wealth of black families is just a fraction of the median wealth for white families,” Clinton said.

Clinton sat silently as one after the other, the five mothers told the stories of their children’s deaths, and about why they are backing Clinton’s presidential bid. The unusual campaign event was part testimonial, part memorial, part call to action against what Clinton called lax gun laws designed to shield gun makers and dealers....................



.............“I say to you, if Eric Garner was a white man, standing on the corner in the suburbs,” he would not have been killed, Carr said. “We cannot take this anymore. We have to get up and do something about it.”

The same group of women spoke to audiences on Clinton’s behalf across South Carolina on Monday and Tuesday. They all were among a group of women who met privately with Clinton last year in a session several of them described as emotional.

“I endorse her because she endorsed us first,” Carr said to applause.

“We have nine months to put her in” the White House. “She’s the new baby,” Reed-Veal said.

In addition, former congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her husband, former space shuttle commander Mark Kelly, also joined Clinton at Central Baptist Church, a large black church on the outskirts of the state’s capital city. Giffords was shot at close range in 2011 as she held a community event in her Tucson, Ariz., congressional district. Now disabled, she has become a gun-control activist and Clinton booster.

"We have a Congress that is in the grip of the gun lobby," Kelly said. "Elections matter."...............