https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210701902Oh my.
It's nice to see good news from Skins's island, for a change.
ehrnst (13,810 posts) Wed Jun 6, 2018, 03:21 PM
(Burlington Free Press) Analysis: How did Bernie Sanders Democrats do in the primaries?
Only a handful of candidates running under the Bernie Sanders banner survived primaries held in six states on Tuesday.
As of Wednesday afternoon, only seven of 31 candidates endorsed by Our Revolution -- a political group affiliated with Vermont’s independent senator -- had been declared winners. Another two races were undecided.
At best, fewer than one-third of the endorsed candidates won.
Following the elections, Sanders sent an upbeat message to his supporters.
"Tonight, progressives won a number of important victories," he said in a statement. "When we talk about the political revolution -- people standing up and fighting for change in their communities -- that's exactly what these candidates are doing."
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Tuesday’s results raise questions about Our Revolution’s impact, and by extension about Sanders’ role as an influencer in the Democratic Party, the party he operates within while remaining an independent. This might well be because many Democrats have embraced Sanders’ issues such as a $15 minimum wage and universal health care.
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Going forward, how effective Sanders can be in doing more than influencing the debate, and actually help put people in office, may be key to the Vermont senator’s presidential ambitions in 2020.
https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/06/06/analysis-how-did-bernie-sanders-democrats-do-primaries/676864002/
George II (28,161 posts) Wed Jun 6, 2018, 03:28 PM
1. Wasn't there a song years ago that went:
"What If They Held A Revolution & Nobody Came?"
LAS14 (4,841 posts) Wed Jun 6, 2018, 03:35 PM
3. I wish we'd focus on individual races and not treat people...
... endorsed by Sanders as a different political party. We don't need to harden divisions.
ehrnst (13,810 posts) Wed Jun 6, 2018, 05:23 PM
5. Tell that to Our Revolution and Sanders.
Gothmog (53,490 posts) Wed Jun 6, 2018, 03:39 PM
4. No one is paying attention to sanders endorsements
Yeah, I think it's past time for the primitives supportive of the hoary old white-haired sourassed sourpuss crank from Vermont and his thieving wife read the handwriting on the wall, or woke up and smelled the roses.
It's time for them to pack up their stuff and move back into Skins's island, where they wish they could be anyway. I'm pretty sure they'd be welcomed with open arms, and all forgiven. And among the hard-core cases, perhaps the NanceGreggs primitive, like the post-second-world-war Germans and their de-Nazification camps, would be willing to run something similar, to de-Berniefy them.
