Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Bernie Sanders & The Importance of a Grassroots Campaign

With over 2.3 million individual contributions, Bernie broke the record for most individual contributions in a campaign. Politicians have, for too long, run campaigns funded by super PACs and billionaires who want to get their way in Washington. Bernie is changing that.


During the last debate, when asked if corporate America would like her, Hillary replied that "everybody should", implying everyone should like her. Bernie's response on the other hand, as seen above, is a response that truly showed Bernie is the candidate of the people. 

Hillary tried to redeem herself afterwards saying she wasn't controlled by them and she was keen on creating jobs in the small business world, but sometimes you can't be on everyone's side. 

Bernie has proved more and more that he stands for the people. His major endorsements come from Unions, not Super PACs. He refuses to take donations larger than a set point from anyone and he uses the money he gets well, lighting social media on fire by traveling coach along with everybody else. 

Bernie is winning the people more than anything. I personally have been in four different states in the past month, and I can say that by far, I have seen more Bernie Sanders bumper stickers on cars than any other politician. 

Even though Hillary might be buying the polls and paying the media to make it look like she's winning, Bernie has the people. In the end, it's not the super PACs who will decide the election, the people will. 

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