Bernie Sanders The Reddit Candidate

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Quite an interesting article over on CNN titled "How Bernie Sanders turned himself into a serious presidential contender" http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/12/politics/bernie-sanders-democratic-debate/ but what's inside that article caught my attention.

Millennials have become a driving force in the elections as the latest UC polling shows with a massive split and disparity between Bernie & Sanders and perhaps this is why.

Bernie Sanders- The Reddit Candidate

Sanders also steadily boosted his profile on social media — he now has almost 700,000 twitter followers and counts nearly 1.7 million likes on Facebook. And Sanders' Reddit footprint is unmatched—his dedicated subreddit has 117,000 users to Clinton's 760.

Indeed, his crowds often fit the Reddit demographic — young, male city dwellers.

"I would say a lot of my interest was spiked from Reddit, I subscribe to the Bernie Sanders subreddit so I've been just kind of following what is going on," said Chris Knapp, a software engineer from Tucson and one of the 13,000 people who heard Sanders Friday night. "It is a very active community. It is easy to just go to one source and keep up on all the information. It is a crowd sourcing of different news articles. That is how I found out about the rally tonight."

From June to August, Sanders nearly doubled his standing in the polls, grabbing nearly a third of the vote and much of the excitement. And Sanders' voters aren't lukewarm. In Sanders they see a kind of prophetic figure who may have once been the wild-haired and wayward stepson of the Democratic Party, but is now its most passionate spokesman.

As Sanders took the stage in Boulder, before a crowd of 9,000 on Saturday, a woman behind him held a simple sign: "Bernie: 30 Years of Truth."

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1. i hope and pray

we are smart enough as a nation to seize this moment

between the media being owns by the 1%, and congress being owned by same, this maybe our last best chance to benefit the 99%

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2. I'm glad we're in the age of social media

where it's user generated content XD

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3. yes the net is an incredible tool

bernie has used the net to get his message out and build a movement

we just have to keep expanding that beginning

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4. I forget about Reddit, even though I get flyers off it.

The medium is powerful, I don't think people who stay within the small corridor of the internet really get it..