I think the Clinton campaign is also going to be incredibly dismayed to see pro-Bernie commercials hit the airwaves as well with that money.
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Plus itâs the middle of the night. That âtop storyâ is nowhere near as useful as a daytime top story. Itâll be gone by morning.
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Mass media keeps talking about H. Clintonâs emails in order to avoid having to provide any coverage of Sanders. This has to be the reason. Would you believe they actually talked about Benghazi on the national news last night to avoid having to mention Sanders? Itâs fucking incredible.
Saw a Bernie lawn sign go up in my neighborhood last week, still no Clinton signs.
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^^For addition to GIF thread please!
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Iâm seeing other Bernie bumper stickers on cars in Denver. No Hillary. Good sign (pun intended), I hope.
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Oh man, Iâm getting the warm fuzzes inside. Iâm really hoping that this is a sign that Biden will enter the race. Thatâll pull votes away from Clinton and make the path to the White House much easier for us Bernie supporters than it is today.
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That requires the assumption that Clinton will remain in the race after Biden enters.
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You think Clinton may drop out if Biden enters? Why?
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If Biden enters the race, and Clintonâs support looks shaky Iâd assume there would be pressure on her at some point to âtake one for the teamâ. I honestly think Biden wouldnât be looking at entering if Hillary was poling better.
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I would think that if Clinton and her handlers were the type to do that, they would have done so when things went terribly south for her against Obama. Even as things began to look pretty bleak for Clinton, she still went down swinging (and slinging mud) against Obama until the very end. I donât think sheâs the type that will go quietly into the night against Biden or Sanders. I also think her polling will level off (from her current, steep decline) at some point whether Biden gets into the race or not. I just donât see any good evidence sheâll drop out, but I could certainly be wrong.
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Your wish is my command.
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And, it was gone by morningâŚ
The obvious corporatist collusion with corporate media to give Bernie Sanders and average (non-exceedingly wealthy) Americans at large the disinterested shrug (and shaft) is painfully obvious.
Theyâre just not going to be able to contain us much longer as Americans are going to increasingly ask why the corporate media fears Bernieâs messages so much. People are going to wonder why the media is desperate to ignore Bernie Sanders. Average Americans are going to increasingly understand that the corporate media is their enemy and a catalyst for oppression the longer the media blatantly blacklists Bernie.
Bernie who? Why does TV media ignore Sanders even as he tops polls? (+video)
Bernie Sanders is fighting a near-blackout in the media despite his surging campaign
Thatâs why we really need to go into overdrive to print more Bernie Sanders bumper stickers, flyers, etc. and give them away for free everywhere. The flyers should be posted every few blocks. If someone rips them down, put more back up. The bumper stickers should be in stacks at coffee shops and other public gathering holes all over this nation so people can easily grab one and stick them on their cars.
The online efforts are going fantastic and need to be maintained (and revved up down the road as well), but the offline guerrilla marketing needs to be massively ramped up to much higher levels than where they are today. Americans should be seeing Bernieâs name all over the streets. Enough to get them curious and asking about him (and wondering why the corporate media ignores and fears his popular agendas).
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Funny you should phrase it like this, about a month ago, as we were going to breakfast downtown, a young guy started scrawling âBernie 2016â at the entrance of the parking lot in sidewalk chalk. Doesnât get any more grassroots than that. 
My SO asked me âwhoâs Bernie?â It was kinda cute, but then I had to confess that this is the first election cycle of my adult life that I actually have a candidate to vote for rather than idiots to vote against.
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I forgot about that approach.
(cow starts searching for eco-friendly, sidewalk chalk online)
I bet some 3D Bernie sidewalk art would catch some attention here and there too⌠Gonna make things like this happen!
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I happened to be up with insomnia that night when you posted. I stayed up til about 2 and it was still up. Then I was up again at 4:30 and it was still there, but demoted to the âbottom of the topâ section if that makes sense. Went back to sleep again and when I was up at 8:15, it was gone.
Getting the shaft is right. The corporatist shillmedia is definitely not on the common personâs side. Itâs what Malcolm X said: if you believe everything you read in the papers, youâll soon be rooting for the bad guys. Iâm paraphrasing, but itâs true. Our country is so fucked up.
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I saw the articles do that exact, same process you described when I accessed Google News repeatedly during basically that same time frame here in Colorado. Google put the lights out on Bernie (and the American people) using the same methodology nationwide, of course.
Itâs an old corporate media trick. Theyâll run articles/stories late at night or within newspaperâs back pages and then claim they properly cover issues and people that are problematic for the corporatist right. FAIR.org has documented this insidious process for many years now. The Google News aggregator is no different.
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So⌠how has our grassroots outreach to black Americans been going?
More than a few progressives said we wouldnât be able to accomplish much in this regard against Hillary⌠HOWEVER:
Apparently many that were telling me that blacks wonât like or understand Bernie Sanders were wrong.
Those that assumed that supporters on social media were souring and driving away most black people from favoring Bernie Sanders were dead wrong. Never mind the fact that plenty of black people and other POC were on social media supporting Sanders and spreading the word despite the corporate media mantra that only âwhite malesâ were doing the job (and supposedly all doing it poorly).
Then again, they could have simply LISTENED to more black Americans (instead of the establishment echo chamber) and they wouldâve known better:
(This snapshot above is a small sampling of many more people and that thread archived above also later reached over 7.5 million views and many more thousands of likes)
Whatâs happening (as predicted) is that as more blacks and other people of color learn about Bernie Sandersâ stellar civil rights track record (that continues up until this very day)⌠the more they favor him over Hillary (whose record betrays her).
Despite the media mantra that repeatedly claimed otherwise, Bernieâs civil rights record DOES matter to people of color. Donât let people bully and coerce you into thinking otherwise. Most people care about both what heâs doing today (and planning) and what heâs done in the past.
The media wonât tell you this.
Unlike Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton is searching for the right answers instead of already having the right answers. Americans of all walks of life are noticing that status.
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Take yet another one for the team, you mean.
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OK, hereâs one that I did this morning. I am interested in the whole thing, of course, but I am especially interested in whatâs going on in the swing states because it is early and interesting to start thinking about it.
Here is my compilation of trends; the data were sourced from the nice state-by-state wikipedia table.
The data:
Whittled down to this for the graph:
I forgot to include the two almost-swing states, Arizona and Michigan; maybe later today Iâll edit and re-post.
edit: I redid the math, but Iâm not going to redo the graph with AZ and Michigan in it. Bernieâs % increase goes up to 4%. All this means is that, overall,
##Hillary is falling at twice the rate that Bernie is rising in the swing states.
What does it mean? If you look at some of the latest polls, and the stuff weâve been discussing about the polls leveling out (you can see it starting to become more pointy at the tip of the dick in the huffpo graph), it means that Bernie will actually overtake Hillary around the first of the year. An announcement from Biden, one way or another will help this process along. A lot of people are holding out for Biden, but heâs a no-show and wonât pass muster because his heartâs not in it anymore. Itâs a long game. Similar to how Bill Clinton played long to eventually capture the nomination, Bernie can stay in it for the haul. Hillary wonât go down without a fight, though. There will be some squabbling.
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So⌠the punditry machine told us the momentum was fading and would peter out long by nowâŚ
Um, yeah⌠no.
Bernie Sanders swept through Massachusetts Saturday, drawing large crowds in both Springfield and Boston.
More than 20,000 people came out to see him in Boston, filling the stadium floor at the Boston Exhibition and Convention Center. A few thousand did not fit inside but stayed in cold weather and watched the speech on screens in an overflow area outside.
I guess we should pack our bags and go home. Itâs over, folks. FiveThirtyEight and other establishment pundits told us until they were blue in the face that this couldnât be real. We must be hallucinating or somethingâŚ
EDIT: And some credit where credit is due. ABC News produced some great, comprehensive reporting on the rally.
Thank you, ABC News!
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