A lot of folks didn't take kindly to what he said about race and poverty-it made him sound as if he thinks all black folks are poor and all white folks are rich.
"The senator from Vermont had effectively walked a fine line in the previous six debates when it came to attacking Clinton without coming across as bullying or condescending. He tripped and fell while trying to execute that delicate dance on Sunday night. Sanders's "excuse me, I'm talking" rebuttal to Clinton hinted at the fact that he was losing his temper with her. His "Can I finish, please?" retort ensured that his tone and his approach to someone trying to become the first female presidential nominee in either party would be THE story of the night."
"Put aside the fact that Sanders misstepped on tone, he also did nothing to change the underlying dynamics of the race. If you think Wall Street is the problem for much of what ails the country, you were for Sanders before this debate and certainly for him after it, too. But, as we know from the first 40 percent or so of states that have voted, there aren't enough of those people to make him the nominee. Sanders didn't knock Clinton off her game in any meaningful way, making the debate a loss for him. (Sidebar: His answer about white people not knowing what it is like to live in a ghetto or be poor would have been a massive gaffe if he was not as far behind in the delegate chase as he is.)"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/06/winners-and-losers-from-the-7th-democratic-presidential-debate/
I can just say that when he said that a lot of folks on Twitter were very unhappy with it. Joy Reid immediately predicted this and there was a lot of criticism.
One thing that you always hear him say is that once black folks hear him they will flock to him like the white millennials. This ignores the reality that he's been running since last April.
He assumes the only reason he's losing is because of name recognition. That's not the only reason. Part of it comes from what John Lewis said: I never saw him.
What the civil rights icon meant there was not that he was questionng whether Bernie really did march in 1962 but rather what he's done since. Where has he been? He's been awol.
This is what black leaders in Vermont say as well. He had no time for them when he wasn't running for President.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/17/vermont-s-black-leaders-we-were-invisible-to-bernie-sanders.html
This is the trouble. He's just very late to this. And when you are trying to court black votes you need some frame of reference. You don't just show up in town 2 weeks before the vote and a bunch of young, white, enthusiastic supporters and close the deal.
Even in Michigan, it's the same thing all over again. He's suddenly showed up last week and expects to overcome a 20 point deficit in two weeks. For some reason he thinks he'll have more luck with Northern than Southern blacks.
The latest polls are not encouraging. A new local poll shows him down by 37.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2016/Mitchell_Poll_FOX_2_GOP_Primary_3-6-16.pdf
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/mi/michigan_democratic_presidential_primary-5224.html#polls
The Fox 2 Detroit/Mitchell poll is a daily tracking poll. It has shown her up strong a long time but her lead is now 9 points higher than it was on March 1.
"The senator from Vermont had effectively walked a fine line in the previous six debates when it came to attacking Clinton without coming across as bullying or condescending. He tripped and fell while trying to execute that delicate dance on Sunday night. Sanders's "excuse me, I'm talking" rebuttal to Clinton hinted at the fact that he was losing his temper with her. His "Can I finish, please?" retort ensured that his tone and his approach to someone trying to become the first female presidential nominee in either party would be THE story of the night."
"Put aside the fact that Sanders misstepped on tone, he also did nothing to change the underlying dynamics of the race. If you think Wall Street is the problem for much of what ails the country, you were for Sanders before this debate and certainly for him after it, too. But, as we know from the first 40 percent or so of states that have voted, there aren't enough of those people to make him the nominee. Sanders didn't knock Clinton off her game in any meaningful way, making the debate a loss for him. (Sidebar: His answer about white people not knowing what it is like to live in a ghetto or be poor would have been a massive gaffe if he was not as far behind in the delegate chase as he is.)"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/06/winners-and-losers-from-the-7th-democratic-presidential-debate/
I can just say that when he said that a lot of folks on Twitter were very unhappy with it. Joy Reid immediately predicted this and there was a lot of criticism.
One thing that you always hear him say is that once black folks hear him they will flock to him like the white millennials. This ignores the reality that he's been running since last April.
He assumes the only reason he's losing is because of name recognition. That's not the only reason. Part of it comes from what John Lewis said: I never saw him.
What the civil rights icon meant there was not that he was questionng whether Bernie really did march in 1962 but rather what he's done since. Where has he been? He's been awol.
This is what black leaders in Vermont say as well. He had no time for them when he wasn't running for President.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/17/vermont-s-black-leaders-we-were-invisible-to-bernie-sanders.html
This is the trouble. He's just very late to this. And when you are trying to court black votes you need some frame of reference. You don't just show up in town 2 weeks before the vote and a bunch of young, white, enthusiastic supporters and close the deal.
Even in Michigan, it's the same thing all over again. He's suddenly showed up last week and expects to overcome a 20 point deficit in two weeks. For some reason he thinks he'll have more luck with Northern than Southern blacks.
The latest polls are not encouraging. A new local poll shows him down by 37.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2016/Mitchell_Poll_FOX_2_GOP_Primary_3-6-16.pdf
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/mi/michigan_democratic_presidential_primary-5224.html#polls
The Fox 2 Detroit/Mitchell poll is a daily tracking poll. It has shown her up strong a long time but her lead is now 9 points higher than it was on March 1.
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