Bernie Sanders Lost His Old Block in Brooklyn

[RandySF]

Bernie Sanders is basically the emancipated soul of old Brooklyn. He grew up the child of Polish immigrants in an a small apartment in a heavily Jewish neighborhood that alternately gets described as Midwood and Flatbush. (These borders change with time and real estate trends.) So, you may be wondering, how did the native son do on his old block?

Well, Sanders grew up on 1525 E. 26th Street, which is between Avenue P and King's Highway.




http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/04/19/bernie_sanders_lost_his_old_block_in_brooklyn.html

[DemocracyDirect]

1. And that should be investigated thoroughly.

That doesn't make sense does it.

[Demsrule86]

15. The Jewish folks left for ...

Coop City, Connecticut, Long Island...Westchester- Rockland...he grew up there many years ago. He has lived in Vermont longer than I have been alive.

[floppyboo]

2. back to the firewall break in the DNC database. Shit sticks.

[nolawarlock]

3. This actually makes perfect sense. N/t

[Else You Are Mad]

4. Yes, he did.

But, excluding new comers registering late, 80,000 life long Democrats that voted every year had their party changed in one County -- his home County. And Sanders one every County that didn't have any voter irregularity. Funny how that happened.

[leftynyc]

21. That's a complete lie

She won all the city counties AND Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk. The only county that had problems was Kings (Brooklyn). Stop spreading bullshit.

[Hortensis]

5. I sort of wish he'd won this one.

Politicians need the skin of rhinos.

[floppyboo]

7. only if you need to deflect 'the slings and arrows'.

Some are ephemeral, others are real. Guess that makes Hillary real! Yay! Go Hill - pftt.

[Hortensis]

8. Well, it's real if it hurt, right? Not that I

imagine his schedule allows him time to think about such things.

[floppyboo]

10. ya, we're all human. I just marvel at the fact of anyone standing up for this job

and when you look at the Republicans, I feel very bad for them. None of them seem to be there for any reason outside of themselves, except maybe Kasich, but he's a little 'touched'

[floppyboo]

6. Who was zoomin who?

Wish they hadn't played it so nice. My bold.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/12/18/critics-cry-foul-dnc-cripples-sanders-campaign-operation

Weaver placed blame at the feet of NGP VAN—and criticized the DNC for hiring the company, saying the Sanders campaign had flagged similar problems with the software for the DNC in the past.

CNN spoke with the fired staffer—national data director Josh Uretsky—who said the breach was an attempt to "understand how badly the Sanders campaign's data was exposed" by the software error.

"We knew there was a security breach in the data, and we were just trying to understand it and what was happening," Uretsky told CNN

[forjusticethunders]

9. When's the last time he's actually *been* to E. 26th Street?

Maybe that will drive it home that you need to show up more than once every few decades if you want to gain grassroots support from people who you want to vote for you.

[renate]

11. I'm curious--why would you post this?

The New York primary is over, and you guys won--congratulations!

So what does it gain you to gloat like this?

I'm honestly curious. Search my past posts and you won't find me criticizing Hillary, and I plan to vote for her since she's almost certainly the eventual nominee. So I'm not asking you as an anti-Hillary person. What good do you think it does to post stuff like this?

I'm practically in tears right now, looking at GDP tonight with all this unnecessary nastiness. We are good people, us Democrats, or at least I've always thought so, all my life. Why are we being so mean to each other? It really hurts me to see all this meanness and ugliness in a group of people I've always thought of as being kind and loving and compassionate.

[jfern]

12. Hillary brings out the worst in people

[GoldenThunder]

14. I think you just hit the nail dead-on with that one.

Substitute Obama, Biden, Warren, or just about any other big-name Democrat in place of Hillary as Bernie's opponent and the civility of the nomination contest goes up 500%. She really does just bring out the worst in people.

[Demsrule86]

16. I beg to differ

It is a primary. And really to blame Clinton when Bernie won't admit he lost and move on is silly. He needs to step down and be gracious in defeat as she was with Obama.

[leftynyc]

22. You obviously didn't see ANY of

the gloating, obnoxious threads after Bernie won WI or really, any other state. Amazing how you missed ALL of them. Almost like you were looking to ignore them.

[strategery blunder]

13. Hillary has endured so many baseless RW attacks for so long

that I believe many Hillary supporters just automatically assume that ANY criticism or reservation about Hillary MUST be an unjustified RW attack.

Therefore the vitriol that should be directed at the RW gets directed instead to those who wish to vote their conscience and/or ideals in the primary (i.e. before "hold your nose" voting is truly required).

Worse, most of them don't even realize it, or they don't care. (And then they'll wonder why Hillary won't break 45% of the vote in the general...)

[Demsrule86]

18. Most of it is regurgitated Rightie lies with a little big bank

I saw a thread about Monica...for heaven's sake. The sooner he gets out and this sort of thing is stopped the better.

[Skwmom]

17. One might actually think that Brooklyn was targeted by those who like the status quo.

“It has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that the voting lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors, including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting lists,” he said in a statement released after 5 p.m. on Election Day.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/19/failure-fraud-and-more-in-new-york-s-punk-rock-voting-disaster.html

[Demsrule86]

19. she won Brooklyn huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge

They were probably her peeps.

[Eric J in MN]

20. If NY had open primaries, maybe he'd have won that neighborhood

...and NY state.

Restrictive voting laws let the beneficiaries add insult to injury.

[JaneyVee]

23. Sorry, but why should non Democrats get to choose...

The Democratic party nominee? Thats like being mad you cant name someone elses baby.

[Eric J in MN]

24. Because liberals who want to vote in Democratic Primaries aren't outsiders.

Even if they don't call themselves "Democrats."

Identity is a big issue for teenagers.

An 18 year old liberal may think, I can't call myself a "Democrat" because I don't agree with everything Democrats have done.

When that person is older and wiser, it won't seem like a big deal to say, "I'm a Democrat."