Saturday, September 12, 2015

How Bernie Sanders Is Plotting His Path To The Democratic Nomination - The Washington Post


By Philip Rucker and John Wagner, Sep 11, 2015 Washington Post

Bernie Sanders is fast expanding his political staff, crafting a delegate strategy and cultivating a vast volunteer corps and digital fundraising network that he believes can seriously challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Dismissed only a couple months ago as a fringe candidate, the self-described democratic socialist senator from Vermont has proven in recent weeks that he is a contender to win the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. Now Sanders is plotting his path to the nomination in what he anticipates will be a long race for delegates.

With Clinton falling in the polls and top Democrats increasingly concerned about her electability, Sanders is trying to take advantage by assembling a grass-roots machine modeled in part after Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Yet many serious obstacles stand between him and the nomination — and Sanders’s advisers acknowledge that their calculations would be complicated further if Vice President Biden enters the race.

 
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