2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSanders bid for black vote in Baltimore highlights struggles to broaden appeal
By Ben Jacobs
A year to the day that the first people were arrested in protests over the death of Freddie Gray, a black man whose death in police custody later set off riots, Bernie Sanders brought his political revolution to Baltimore.
Sanders, who was preceded by a former head of the NAACP, a prominent local pastor and the actor Danny Glover, tried hard to convince African Americans that he was attuned to the problems of a majority black city with a history of racial tension. But the crowd of about 6,000 was mostly white.
Despite the efforts of prominent African American supporters and many mentions of his long support for the civil rights movement, Sanderss campaign has struggled and sometimes failed spectacularly to appeal to African American voters. Exit polls have shown black voters favor Hillary Clinton by lopsided margins around the country, and the former secretary of state won among African Americans in New York by a 3-to-1 margin on Tuesday.
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Daniel Hall, an African American attendee from Cockeysville, Maryland, expressed disappointment about the mostly white crowd. Even here theres not even a lot of us and there should be.
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A more typical attendee was Daniel Swann, a college student at Johns Hopkins University, who came to the rally in a bear suit and the message that he was Bearnie Sanders, a socialist grizzly bear who wanted to redistribute the honey.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/23/bernie-sanders-baltimore-black-voters-maryland-primary
berniepdx420
(1,784 posts)read the piece about hillary's campaign paying over $1,000,000 to internet trolls ... it's an interesting read for sure.... here is a video all about it...
LuvLoogie
(7,021 posts)Then she will cut into Bernie's huge lead and hopefully go into the convention with a chance to get the nomination. We NEED those trolls to push back against the overwhelming authenticity of Bernie and The
Revolution. I hope a million dollars is enough.
Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)Cali's been here for more than a decade. What about you?
berniepdx420
(1,784 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)I expected as much.
berniepdx420
(1,784 posts)can you see them from under there....
senz
(11,945 posts)On Mon Apr 25, 2016, 05:33 PM an alert was sent on the following post:
Hilarious ! talking bout me stones!
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The standard in GDP lately seems to be to hide this level of rudeness/incivility. So if we wish to start cleaning the place up, the spot to start is with the people who post the same pic in a row, taunting other users. Be consistent, jury-goers!
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Please Stop It
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Explanation: I wouldn't say "rude" as much as "pointless"
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berniepdx420
(1,784 posts)LuvLoogie
(7,021 posts)regarding the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton.
oasis
(49,400 posts)Spacedog1973
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TMontoya
(369 posts)Was really a dud for Bernie.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)And wanting to primary the first AA president wasn't too smart either.
TMontoya
(369 posts)I don't understand why people think Cornel West is a good person to have around you?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)So much of his message is based on equality.