If you watched CNN, MSNBC or FOX after the Democratic debate last Tuesday, you would think there wasn’t anyone on the stage but Hillary Clinton.
However, those very same media outlets posted online polls and focus groups that almost unanimously voted Senator Bernie Sanders the clear winner. In fact, most every poll released by the major social media networks had Sanders in the lead at the end, and perhaps more importantly, during the debate.
Right now, looking at the latest polling numbers coming out of the early states, any Sanders fan has to be feeling a certain sense of combined excitement and nervousness.
I mean, here is a powerful candidate, one who is drawing serious numbers at his rallies, that is now floating within arms length of the presumed candidate Hillary Clinton. These polls, from Gallup to RCP, one can see an interesting spread that shows a race simultaneously close and far apart. The numbers seem in favor of the former First Lady, but the energy and outpour on Senator Sanders side.
Let’s face it; Bernie Sanders is slowly taking over the Internet.
If there is one thing about the 2016 presidential election, it is that Bernie Sanders is burning up the social media networks. We do see a good bit about or from the other candidates, but oftentimes they are hit or miss as far as whether the piece is positive or negative. We see Trump in our newsfeed, but will the article be about some new absurd sound byte or actual news? Every candidate seems to almost have more of a pushback online; that is except for Bernie Sanders.
Its happening again.
For those of us who watched Hillary Clinton go to absolute war against Barack Obama in 2008 for the Democratic nomination, we are beginning to see a trend rise once more that we know very well. The seemingly obvious candidate slowly eroding under an ever raising tide of passionate and active voters that were determined to beat the big bucks and the Dynasty pattern in government.
That’s right America, Hillary Clinton is once again slowly falling as the outsider Bernie Sanders begins to frame the entire nomination in his direction. Now, as in 2008, we begin to see the first stages around this time, as Clinton begins attempting to be most like whoever is gaining on her (Sanders in this case) in a strange metamorphosis she seems blind to. She is not, however, ignorant of the fact that the nomination is slipping through her hands like sand, and today we observe three reasons why we know that’s true.
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