2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders is this year's biggest story
By Sally Kohn, CNN Political Commentator
Updated 5:16 PM ET, Tue March 29, 2016
(CNN)If Donald Trump weren't dominating the coverage in this election, Bernie Sanders would be the big story.
While Trump is a self-funded billionaire who was well-known before he ran and benefited from a highly fractured Republican field in which no one could coalesce enough votes to challenge him, Bernie Sanders is a relatively unknown senator who used small donations to mount a serious and sustained challenge to Hillary Clinton's campaign, one of the best-oiled political juggernauts of the past half century.
If the right word to describe Donald Trump supporters is angry, the best word to describe Bernie Sanders' supporters at this point might be surprised.
The New York Times' Yamiche Alcindor wrote, "Covering Mr. Sanders is at times like watching a man almost surprised by his success and eager to make it last." In my experience, his supporters feel the same -- a sort of "Can you believe this is happening?" mix of elation and shock.
These are the voters who were perennially accustomed to holding their noses and voting for the least-worst option and then spending the rest of their time railing against the corrupt center-right system. I should know, I'm one of them.
They/we/I never expected to see a presidential candidate championing universal single payer health care -- let alone, gasp, that candidate have a shot at winning. I suspect that candidate didn't see it coming, either.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/29/opinions/bernie-sanders-big-story-2016-opinion-kohn/index.html
FINALLY!!
although the "Biggest Story" is at the bottom of their front page:
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)attention from the people.
Millions of them.
dchill
(38,532 posts)That's not being covered adequately.
dana_b
(11,546 posts)So the "Biggest Story" is way down at the bottom, underneath all of the loud mouths at the top.
dchill
(38,532 posts)Response to dana_b (Original post)
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JimDandy
(7,318 posts)Jennylynn
(696 posts)I was all in for Hillary, with a sick feeling in my stomach, more Hillary, when I saw a pic of the crowds Bernie was getting. I thought, holy poop! He's getting somewhere???
Happily surprised was I. GO BOYNIE!
merrily
(45,251 posts)His campaign has been a huge story all along.
You'd never have known that by the turds in the establishment media, though.