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Bernie Sanders urges raw vote count release from Iowa caucus after virtual tie with Clinton

February 2, 2016 By administrator

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. © Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. © Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has urged a raw vote count release from the Iowa caucus, after results showed Hillary Clinton beating him by just .4 percentage points.

Sanders spoke of an unfolding controversy at certain Iowa precincts which did not have enough Democratic party volunteers to report delegate totals.

He called on officials to reveal underlying voter totals, a strategy which is not not typically practiced in Iowa.

Only projections of how many Democrats turn out to each Iowa precinct are typically released. Candidates are awarded on a precinct-by-precinct basis, regardless of the state-wide vote for each person.

“I honestly don’t know what happened. I know there are some precincts that have still not reported. I can only hope and expect that the count will be honest,” he said, as quoted by the Guardian.

“I have no idea, did we win the popular vote? I don’t know, but as much information as possible should be made available,” he continued.

Sanders’ campaign director, Jeff Weaver, said he did not “anticipate we are going to contest” specific results, but hoped there would be an investigation into the situation.

There were six instances where a coin was tossed to determine the Iowa winner, and Clinton won all six.

Despite any possible controversy, Sanders expressed optimism on Monday night, saying: “Tonight shows the American people that this is a campaign that can win.”

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Clinton, Us-Election

Bernie Sanders Won the Debate, and Perhaps the Election, When He Defended Hillary Clinton

October 14, 2015 By administrator

Democratice debateIt was, without question, the climax of the debate. Hillary Clinton was defending herself against email allegations, when Bernie Sanders came to her rescue. In doing so, he not only demonstrated the decency that is the hallmark of his campaign, but also proved that he’s no ordinary politician.

Bernie Sanders doesn’t want to win the White House if it means losing his integrity. He’s willing to protect even his political rival if it’s in the name of justice.

This campaign cannot be about emails, but only Bernie Sanders was big enough to say that, on his competitor’s behalf.

Bernie Sanders: “What the Secretary said is right. And that is the American people are tired of hearing about your damn emails.”

Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Debate, Us-Election, won

US-Election: Bernie Sanders raises $26 million, closes gap with Hillary Clinton

October 1, 2015 By administrator

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders © Brian C. Frank / Reuters

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders © Brian C. Frank / Reuters

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders raised $26 million over the third quarter of the year. This puts him only $2 million short of the more mainstream frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, who gets much more of her money from large donors.

Bernie Sanders has been a vociferous critic of the presence of money in politics, and he has put his proverbial – and literal – money where his mouth is. His campaign is supported mostly by small-dollar donations made online.

Perhaps most surprisingly was that the campaign raised $2 million in a 24 hour period on the final day of donations for the fundraising period. Campaign spokesman Michael Briggs said that the donations poured in throughout Wednesday as the result of tweets and emails asking supporters to give as much as they can before the close of the quarter.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign revealed its third-quarter fundraising coming in at $28 million, barely ahead of Sanders’ campaign’s haul.

This shows a serious narrowing of the funding gap between the insurgent Vermont senator and the former secretary of state, most of which is a result of grassroots support. At the end of the first quarter in July, the Sanders campaign said it raised a comparatively modest $15 million from 250,000 individual donors. This was towered over by Hillary Clinton’s $45 million – a record amount of first-quarter cash for a presidential campaign – from 200,000 donors.

The Sanders campaign at that time said that the average contribution was $33.51 and that 99 percent of the donations were under $250. Using division, we can estimate that that the average donation to Hillary during the same period was $225. A campaign aide of hers said that 91 percent of the donations were below 100 dollars, according to CNN.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Us-Election

Bernie Sanders Only 2016 Candidate Drawing Tens of Thousands to Rallies

August 10, 2015 By administrator

Bernie-Sanders for President

Bernie-Sanders for President

A self-described socialist, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has just set a new record for the largest political event of the 2016 presidential contest at a campaign rally in Portland, Oregon.

Roughly 9,000 people gathered around the Moda Center on Sunday in Portland for Sanders’ campaign rally. And these were just the people who couldn’t get in. The large arena itself was packed with an estimated 19,000 people, as the remaining thousands were directed to overflow areas to listen to the Senator on loudspeakers outside.This brought the total number of attendees to 28,000, breaking Sanders’ own records as his populist message continues to draw in larger and larger crowds.

“Whoa. This is an unbelievable turnout,” Sanders said after taking the podium at Moda Center. “Portland, you have done it better than anyone else!”

For months, Sanders has been attracting an overflow of crowds at campaign rallies across the country, including events held in conservative states like Texas and Arizona. The continued upward trend in turnout and both state and national polling has reflected the growing resonance of the Vermont Senator’s populist message, centered on an agenda of challenging the economic and political status quo.

During his campaign, the presidential hopeful has vowed to take on the “billionaire class,” take money out politics, fight corporate greed, and combat climate change.

‘”Almost all the wealth is held by a small handful of people and together, we are going to change that,” Sanders said at Sunday’s rally, Common Dreams reported. Adding that he wanted to end corporate tax breaks and break up major Wall Street financial institutions, he said “if they’re too big to fail, they’re too big to exist!”

Sanders’ large crowds have become a huge talking point for political pundits, as the Independent senator continues to attract more people than Hillary Clinton, his contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination. So far, Clinton’s largest campaign event has gathered an estimated 5,500 people, a far cry from the crowds Sanders draws in.

“He listens I think, more than she does,” Claire Met, who attended Sunday’s rally, told CNN. “She seems more out of touch.”

“I appreciate his honestness and his frankness,” Brian Foren, another attendee said. “She has a lot of baggage and I worry that her baggage might cost us the election.”

Meanwhile, after his Saturday address in the University of Washington, Seattle was interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters, Sanders’ campaign has added a “Racial Justice” tab to his website as a new campaign issue.

“There is no candidate who will fight harder to end institutional racism in this country and to reform our broken criminal justice system,” Sanders said at Sunday’s rally, adding that “bringing people together” was at the core of his campaign.

Sanders also released an updated issue statement on Sunday, in which he detailed the need to address the “four central types of violence waved against black and brown Americans: physical, political, legal and economic.”

Source: sputniknews

Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Election, US

American socialist: Bernie Sanders’ long shot presidential campaign gains steam

July 9, 2015 By administrator

sanders-electionHillary Clinton’s path to the nomination is uncontested no longer. Senator Bernie Sanders is drawing huge crowds and gaining in the polls. But can a democratic socialist win over America? Spencer Kimball reports.

It’s a dirty word in American politics. But Bernie Sanders embraces it.

“I wouldn’t deny it, not for one second, ” Sanders told the Washington Post when he was running for Vermont’s senate seat back in 2006. “I’m a democratic socialist.”

Sanders is not a conventional American politician. He’s the longest serving independent in the history of the US Congress. Though he’s long worked with Democrats, Sanders officially joined the party just this year to challenge Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination.

Initially considered a fringe candidate, he’s defying expectations. In May, Sanders trailed Clinton by 45 percent in Iowa, a key early primary state. He’s reduced the margin to 19 percent. In New Hampshire, the Vermont senator is behind by only eight points.

Sanders drew a crowd of some 10,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin earlier this month. It was easily one of the largest rallies of the 2016 campaign to date – in either party. And he’s no one-hit wonder. On Monday, he drew more than 7,000 people in Portland, Maine.

“No one in the White House will have the power to take on Wall Street alone, corporate America alone, the billionaire classes alone,” Sanders told his supporters in Maine.

“The only way that change takes place is when we develop that strong grassroots movement, make that political revolution, stand together, and then we bring about change,” he said.

Scandinavian America

What would the US look like after Sanders’ political revolution? Think Scandinavia – Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

“In those countries health care is a right of all people, in those countries college education, graduate school is free, in those countries retirement benefits, child care are stronger than in the United States of America,” Sanders said in an interview on the Sunday morning talk show This Week.

“In those countries, by and large, the government works for ordinary people and the middle class rather than, as is the case right now in our country, for the billionaire class,” Sanders said.

It’s a message that appeals to progressives. But will the broader American public support a self-proclaimed democratic socialist who wants the nation to look more like northern Europe?

“This is a country that had a McCarthy era and a red scare,” John Nichols, Washington correspondent for “The Nation” magazine, told DW. “It had red baiting and attacks on socialists, that’s part of our media life even in recent years.”

Challenging economic orthodoxy

Nichols has covered Sanders for years and introduced the Vermont senator at his packed rally in Wisconsin. Though America is very different from Europe structurally and economically, Nichols believes the country is ripe for the populist anti-austerity message that has swept the Old Continent in recent months, and Sanders is trying to tap into that sentiment.

According to Gallup, two out of every three Americans are dissatisfied with the way wealth is distributed in the United States. It’s a bi-partisan issue. Three-quarters of Democrats and even 54 percent of Republicans are concerned about income inequality.

“There’s space in the 2016 race for messages that really do challenge the economic orthodoxies of the United States,” Nichols said.

Generational gap

While the older baby-boom generation is more invested in the status quo and came of age when the socialist label was taboo, Alexandra Reckendorf believes the younger millennial generation is more open to radical change.

“They’re a little bit more compassionate and empathetic on these issues of economic inequality,”

Reckendorf, an expert on US politics at Virginia Commonwealth University, told DW. “A lot of them either find themselves in that boat or are still young and idealistic enough to think that these changes could work.”

Young Americans have racked up $1.2 trillion (1.08 trillion euros) in student debt due to the rising cost of college tuition. Sanders has introduced legislation to make all four-year public colleges tuition free, and would finance it through a tax on Wall Street speculation.

Uphill battle

But according to Arthur Sanders (no relation), the broader public just is not there yet. The US politics expert points to Obamacare. Only 43 percent of the public has a favorable view of President Obama’s signature domestic accomplishment, according to a Kaiser Health Tracking poll. Senator Sanders, on the other hand, thinks Obama’s health care reforms don’t go far enough.

“If he’s going to argue as he did in the past for single-payer government health care, the public is not ready for that, they’re barely ready for Obamacare,” Arthur Sanders, a professor at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, told DW.

And so far, Senator Sanders also hasn’t made inroads with African American and Latino voters, who overwhelmingly support Hillary Clinton. Though he was involved in the civil rights movement in Chicago during the 1960s, he now represents an overwhelmingly white state in New England.

He’s also refused to accept corporate money out of principle. While Hillary Clinton has raised $45 million, Senator Sanders has pulled in $15 million from small donors. Regardless of whether or not he can secure the nomination, the democratic socialist senator from Vermont is already having a significant influence on the debate. And perhaps that’s his real objective.

“He’ll push Clinton to the left, he’ll push the debate to the left,” Arthur Sanders said. “He’ll never say that’s why he’s running, because you can’t say that’s why you’re running.”

 Source: DW.com

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Election, US

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