Explain to me how Bernie means to expand his base....
I get how he appeals to the 'progressive wing' of the Democratic Party.....but tell me how he is going to appeal to the moderate and middle of the road part of the Democratic party? How is he going to expand his base from some white 'progressive' voters to also include the middle and the African American and Latino voters? So far I've seen NADA that he is making inroads there. Tell me how Sanders plans to broaden his support.
Hillary already has a broad appeal to the Democratic voters, all of them except for the far left self identified progressives who somehow have the idea that the word LIBERAL is not good enough for them. So lay it on me, tell me how Bernie is gonna light a fire and make all of the party flock to him.
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with regards to Sanders. How original. 
Check out his reception at La Raza. Pay very close attention to this weekend in Arizona and then Texas. His support is growing weekly among AA as well.
There really isn't a 'middle' in the Democratic party. There is the majority traditional progressive Dems and then there is the center right New Dem wing. The New Dems are the minority NOT the majority. Clinton will appeal to them because she is one. Sanders will never appeal to them.
What you think you are calling 'middle' or moderate are Dems who want economic and social justice plus support the 2nd amendment. Well, we know that Sanders is moderate there so that's not an issue.
I am sure if you do some of your own research you will find other moderate stances that Sanders has no problem appealing to even while being the most progressive candidates this primary season.
That because the polls show the same percentage of support with minority voters, as with voters overall, that he doesn't have support from minorities. They ignore the fact that his name recognition in those polls is low and that compared to the name recognition of other candidates, it's really not much less. They like to ignore the fact that as he becomes better known, his support, across the board, grows.
They also seem to think that the Black Caucus and black celebrity endorsements grow, so does his support, across the board.
They like to ignore any person of color that isn't a poster in the DU AA group. I think you pointed that out on another post
And they sure like to dismiss you and a couple other people here.
#FeelTheBern!
and find it this weekend.
I am going to be busy all day today for obvious reasons. 
I will likely be exhausted on Sunday after being around such a crowd and in this heat here so hopefully Monday I will have it.
I love synchronicities. 
Pictures, if you can, please! 
but no photos.
I have electrolyte infused ice cold water bottles ready to go! 
Your's is the revision.
Clinton's coattails?! 
Stop, you are killing me!
The only opportunists are the Clintons. I saw it in Arkansas. I saw it in the 1990's. I see it now today.
Go away with your bullshit revisions.
How laughable.
to what a serial womanizing, draft dodging, pot smoker?
Get over yourself conservadem!
to take on the press and campaign while Bernie was hiding in Vermont. Bernie's been a Revolutionary -- for 30 years -- dontcha know. So revolutionary, he never bothered to pursue a national ticket because he was pandering to hunters/gun nuts in Vermont along the lines of the Sarah Palin types.
You get over yourself, too <childish name here>
Comparing Sanders to Palin.
You are a joke. Go away kid.
in Arkansas and Hillary was sitting on the board of Walmart, Sanders was supporting gender equality, LGBT civil rights, and he was working from the 1960's on for black civil rights as well.
A full year after entering the House and a full year before Clinton was elected he found the House Progressive Caucus.
Yeah, he is not revolutionary at all.
Now I remember wasting time before with you over your deep moral (and real, too, I'm sure, LOL...) "concerns" over Clinton and the "babes," but you were silent about the morals of the silly impeachment posse who were exposed as philanderers by Larry Flynt. RW talking points are a waste of time and hypocritical.
And for the record, I only mentioned Sarah Palin and Bernie Sanders together because someone here still deeply upset from 2008 is spamming threads calling people PUMAS if they don't kowtow with the appropriate Sanders love. They were using RW talking points, too, about hunting/guns, and sounded just like Sarah Palin! You've gotta laugh at those who have to resort to RW talking points and tout Sara Palin to get some digs in about Hillary. Hilarious.
But back to your original party observations, if you didn't support Clinton in 1992/1998, I guess you voted for Bush...Dole? LMAO! Your Clinton hate started a little too early for it to be believable -- even before he took office... Things that make you go Hmmmm.
had affairs.
I do care when pseudo Dems attempt to hold him up as a shining example of moral and political leadership. I could criticize many of his policies but we progressives have been doing that a lot recently. You can find those yourself.
I did not support Clinton in 1992 or 1998. I saw him for the New Dem he was.
Disliking a person's character and their governance is only hate to those with nothing but party loyalty to back up their cults of personality.
You have a real nice day. 
And everything I mentioned pertained to Clinton's run for office, but I see you've added little ditty's about his time in office, which is not what I was mentioning. Nice shift.
There was no candidate history of "new democrats" because Republicans were in office so long. I doubt you hated Clinton because he was a newly minted "new democrat." Your Clinton hate is to revise history and retroactively apply it to what was happening at the time when it wasn't part of the lexicon. If anything, it was used to appeal to national voters because liberal was such a dirty word; remember?? The political landscape was that Republicans dominated because of "family values"; remember? And whatever their buzzwords were for a candidate's appeal all those years -- that is what candidates geared to; remember?
And of course Sanders has endorsed liberals/progressives! He's a socialist. Duh. But with 30 years public service, he's hardly a "revolutionary".
Your continued obsession with the RW talking points about Clinton's "babes" is really odd and revealing, especially at the time we're talking about 1992 and 1998. I'm sure you hate Clinton, but I doubt it's for the reasons you indicate here because those terms were not derisive at the time as they are thrown about today. Now using derisive terms gives folks some legit liberal cred, lol.
This is a waste of time with you. I've seen your posts to others here; I just forgot you were the one who was so concerned about Clinton's "babes" before and, of course..."morals". I'm not interested in your revisionist games.
It's an excuse to recycle old memes and insult other DUers.
Hillarious.
And how exactly to you explain what you are doing?
This should be fun.
I hope you don't mind if I move on from conversing with you to others in the queue. Thanks ever so much for taking the time to not give an answer though.
Just adorable.
I guess if we didn't have anything positive to post about our guy we'd have no choice but to resort to stunts like this too.
Good thing our group is chock full of great threads just waiting to be recc'd onto the greatest.
I'm going to go rec a few just for you, BooScout.
Didn't get the meme that "Latinos" must support Hillary....
Thank you for replying.
to his target audience -- i.e., to the 80% of households whose wages have been flat since 1980 -- I'm guessing he's going to be just fine.
There will no reason for him to worry about broadening his base.
None at all.
I thought it was special too.
We certainly can't have a picture of Hillary in colorful pantsuits threatening people!
I already said it is a perfect reflection of her LGBT positions over the years.
That fits. 
...I don't know one senior who is not supporting Bernie, except (like I said) those who are totally RW and those totally of the RR.
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