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13007014, I hear you, but this is where endorsements matter...
Posted by CRichMonkey, Tue Apr-19-16 11:04 AM
An endorsement isn't just a politician coming out and verbally saying that they like a candidate, it's them pledging to put their people and their apparatus behind them as well.

HRC has every Democratic machine operation working on her behalf. We're talking about old school retail politics. The type of shit where you pull the van up to the Senior's Center or get a bus at the Union Hall and drive folks to the polls. That's something you can't build overnight or co-opt from folks who aren't already organized.

This is why Bernie has problems in primaries and especially why he has trouble in closed primaries. When it's Dem on Dem voting, without the support of Independents or folks who are only tangentially connected to the process, he can't break through the... well... establishment because they're, you know, established.


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