The political pundits are ready to crown Bernie Sanders the Donald Trump of the Democrats….
NOT so fast…..
Today is the first Democratic primary…
In New Hampshire….
(Sanders won the place last time and wasn’t the nominee afterwards…Neither for Hillary back in 2008)
There are more black voters in Queens New York than there is both those states….
In the next three weeks?
The REAL Democratic nomination race will commence ….
We’ll see if the media Sanders coronation is a bit hasty…
In the contest’s final hours, Sanders has minimized his own criticism of the party, pitching his campaign as a chance for the state to get things right and pick an electable candidate who will supercharge voter enthusiasm.
His Monday evening concert in Durham, Sanders said, would probably bring out the “largest turnout in the Democratic primary process.” His volunteers had knocked on one-fifth of all the doors in New Hampshire, sometimes putting a golf ball in a gloved hand, to make sure that people at home were listening.
But Sanders had already won New Hampshire once, by a 21-point landslide. Unlikely to beat him here, rival candidates and skeptical voters are still asking whether Sanders and his movement could be trusted to win a general election.
“He’s probably too progressive for me,” said Jacob Kirk, 59, who said had voted for Sanders in the 2016 primary and then cast another “anybody-but-Hillary” vote for Donald Trump.
“He’s so negative,” said Kirk’s wife, Kim, also 59. “He comes off like an angry old man.” In the final days before the primary, they took time to check out former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg, who now criticizes Sanders’s “revolutionary” approach to politics in his stump speech.
Like the other nine candidates still competing here, Sanders took advantage of the president’s party-crashing visit to Manchester, contrasting his agenda — Medicare-for-all, free college tuition, a $15 minimum wage — with the Republicans. In Rindge, he didn’t even bother attacking rivals such as Buttigieg or Biden, who he’d warned would be weaker general-election candidates.
“Trump’s presence in New Hampshire is an opportunity to contrast Senator Sanders’s agenda against Trump’s record of division and betraying working families,” explained Jeff Weaver, a senior Sanders adviser. “It’s also an opportunity to highlight Senator Sanders’s unique strengths in a general-election matchup.”
Sanders’s stump speech hardly differed from the one that he used on the way to winning the primary four years ago. In Rindge, it did not even go after the White House’s new budget, which went back on a number of campaign promises by proposing cuts to Social Security and reduced spending on Medicaid.
The nine other candidates fighting for New Hampshire have done only a little to raise expectations for Sanders. Biden has repeatedly pointed to Sanders’s win number from 2016 as a standard, but only to argue that losing to him here would not affect his own battle plan for later states. Buttigieg reminds audiences that he started his own campaign with “no personal fortune and no national name recognition and no big email list,” to portray whatever he does in New Hampshire as an upset. Still, the Sanders campaign is ready for post-election spin and chatter about how running behind his 61 percent landslide from last time will be a show of weakness…..
image…newsweek.com
A Sanders victory in N.H. doesn’t mean he is going to be the nominee.
However, a win is a win.
Your obsession with your perception of the “media” is growing to Trumpian proportions.