Sanders' challenge: Winning over Obama Supporters

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8. I really think Sanders has no intention of becoming president.

Before he announced he said he would run if enough would support him. He did fund raisers and decided there were enough people behind him.

He says he can't do it alone it takes a revolution or it takes a mass of people to change things.

I think his idea is to get a progressive movement going by pretending to run and letting people send in money to fund his attempt to define the race.


He isn't getting over 25% in the polls. He said on MSNBC that he knows he does not have much Black or Latino support but that he was going to work on that by learning what their issues were. He doesn't know what their issues are because he never got into minority issues. His economic justice plays to white liberals who say that economic justice will take care of what ever the minority issues are. That is a way of not needing to get into those issues much.

So Sanders supporters think that if minorities only listen to Bernie they will jump on his band wagon. That's why lot's of debates are needed. They can win in White IA and NH but the South is another story. They desperately need more debates before Super Tuesday so the can sell the economic justice idea to minorities. That is the supporters point of view.
Bernie on the other hand is happy with driving the campaigns to the left.