With every large crowd of supporters -- larger crowds than anyone on the campaign trail including Republicans and Hillary -- he raises concerns about Hillary's viability as a candidate.

He is drawing enormous crowds—11,000 in Phoenix, 8,000 in Dallas, 2,500 in Council Bluffs, Iowa—the largest turnout of any candidate from any party in the first-to-vote primary state. He has raised $15 million in mostly small donations, to Hillary Clinton’s $45 million—and unlike her, he did it without holding a single fundraiser.

Editor's note:  This past Wednesday,  the AP tells us he, also, spoke to a crowd of close to 11,000 in Wisconsin.  

As Sanders has gained steam as a candidate, the press has done its best to put him through the conventional wringer. It has dug around in his past—finding that the son widely thought to be from his first marriage was actually born out of wedlock to another woman. It has pointed out the deviations from liberal orthodoxy in his record, like his longtime support of gun rights. And it has noted his greatest weakness, a lack of appeal among the party’s minority base; the day after his speech in Iowa, Sanders is interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters at a liberal convention in Phoenix, and criticized when he responds dismissively.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 3, 2015 at 12:55 PM

    We would be a better and more prosperous nation under the Sanders administration. The GOP can not win. The Trump problem and the large field decreases any chance.

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    1. John SmithsonAugust 3, 2015 at 5:51 PM

      There are no socialist nations that have our economy, resources, wealth across the board (our homeless have more wealth than 70% of the world's population). But that aside, your theory has a problem or two: First, there will only be one GOP candidate running against Biden or whoever is in second place in the Progresssive Party, and (2) Trump will not be one of them.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 4, 2015 at 12:33 AM

    Norway is the #1 most prosperous nation, socialist.
    US ranks 10th
    http://www.businessinsider.com/the-30-most-prosperous-countries-in-the-world-2014-11

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    1. John SmithsonAugust 4, 2015 at 1:05 AM

      Norway is not a socialist country. It is a representative democracy built around its monarchy. It only as a population of 5.3 million

      The reason Norway is filthy rich is definitely the oil and gas. But the other Nordic countries, which have little or no such resources, are also pretty well off and shaking off the recent economic crisis better than most of the developed world. They have a big state sector, but it is misleading to call any of them "socialist".

      Social democracy is a quite pragmatic ideology, where government mediates between workers and employers in ways that benefit both. Much of the large amounts of money that pass through the state goes not to handouts to non-workers, but to make as many people as possible the best workers they can be: Education, health care, child care, pension funds ... Business benefits from a workforce that is very productive. Productivity in Norway is among the highest in the world, despite (?) the fact that so many Norwegians work for the government.

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