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Bernie Sanders Has a Secret Weapon, and the Media Elites Just Don't Get It | The Nation - 0 views

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    "plain speech"
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Toppling Trump May Hinge on Laughs, Focus Group Shows - Bloomberg Politics - 0 views

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  • They don't want the establishment—whether a political party, or the media—pushing anything on them
  • upbeat humor seemed a more effective strategy in attacking Drumpf because it held the prospect of turning undecided voters away from the billionaire without his loyalists complaining that he was being treated unfairl
  • "Maybe it’s time to blow [the Republican Party] up,”
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  • “Every family has somebody that has an uncle who puts his foot in the his mouth,"
  • It portrayed Drumpf as a heartless businessman, whose only aim was to benefit his corporation's bottom line."Drumpf got his hotels, but I lost everything," one working class employee said in the ad.
  • "That ad is really good, if it's true," Jeff said.
  • described Obama as "cocky," "elitist," and "un-American.
  • When asked to describe the U.S. press, many complained of being portrayed as racist bigots, while other simply used descriptors like "biased" and "elitists." "The media always puts us as uneducated. It's just not true," said Michael, a middle-aged Drumpf supporter
  • "You are actually building his campaign with every attack," Luntz told journalists during one break. "You’re actually creating the phenomenon that you are opposing."
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An historian compares Bernie Sanders and Eugene Debs - and explains why the pundits are... - 0 views

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  • “I would rather vote for something I want and not get it, than to vote for something I don’t want and get it.”
  • his straight-forward style and remarkable policy views ensure that no one will view him as just another career politician.
  • The speech I heard last summer did not say enough about women or African-Americans.
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  • Ironically, Debs, like Sanders, has been criticized from the left by opponents who viewed him as insensitive to racism.
  • Sanders, like Debs, could bring about genuine reform by challenging the Democrats from the left. He argues that Sanders could “win by losing.” In particular, the historian notes banking reform and child-labor laws achieved during the Progressive era, which were initially part of Debs’s agenda.
  • Sanders campaign cannot transform the system, but it could provide an opportunity for “socialists to regrow, organize together.” Further, he hopes it will give legitimacy to the world “socialist” and “spark a conversation about it.” From this perspective, Sanders has already won.
  • promise of support for the Democratic Party’s nominee
  • offered little real change, and instead channeled young activists into the corrupt Democratic Party. Sanders’s socialist ideals, or longtime status as an independent, seem less important than his current relationship with the Democrats. Their view, stated simply, is that Bernie Sanders is no Eugene Debs. That argument is true, but it is not very helpful today, since Debs will not be on the ballot
  • All of the writers I have discussed assume that Sanders will fail to win the presidency. Although the candidate is a long-shot, his quest for the presidency is not impossible.
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The media's lying to you about Bernie Sanders: This is why a socialist can win the Fox-... - 0 views

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    "The theory suggests that when upwards of 60 percent of voters consistently agree that rich people should have their taxes raised, a candidate who promises to do so might be identified as what he actually is: middle of the road. That if Democrats give Democratic speeches on economic issues, voters suckered into Republicanism by refrains like Jihad! Jihad! Jihad! just might try something else. And that new voters might be attracted into politics if they could just hear a candidate cut to the radical quick of the actual problems that are ruining their lives. My new Republican friends didn't know they were not "supposed" to like a "liberal" like Bernie Sanders. Then they heard what he was saying, and liked what they heard. How many are there like them? That's what I've been trying to begin to find out."
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