Post by Logan on Apr 24, 2016 6:45:13 GMT -6
The Bernie Sanders campaign – which has made reform of “rigged” banking and finance systems a central plank – planted its flag Saturday in Wilmington, a financial-services hub and the home of crucial voters in the Delaware Democratic primary.
“If we think about half a loaf, we will get crumbs. If we think about small ideas, we will get small results,” Sanders said at a rally that drew more than 3,000 people, many of them high school and college students, to the Chase Center on the Riverfront. "The truth is, we have a rigged economy. That is an economy which is based in unsustainable principles. That is an economy that is not moral. Not the economy we need to be the great nation we should be.”
The still-in-flux race for the Democratic nomination has made Delaware, which generally gets limited attention during the candidate selection process, a critical state in amassing delegates. In February 2008, then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama held a campaign rally in Wilmington's Rodney Square, which drew an estimated 10,000 people and is cited as a catalyst for his victory over Hillary Clinton.
That was an anomaly for a state whose delegate votes in primaries – and electoral votes in November – are almost never deciding factors.
Read more: www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/23/bernie-sanders-supporters-begin-crowd-wilmingtons-riverfront/83391696/
“If we think about half a loaf, we will get crumbs. If we think about small ideas, we will get small results,” Sanders said at a rally that drew more than 3,000 people, many of them high school and college students, to the Chase Center on the Riverfront. "The truth is, we have a rigged economy. That is an economy which is based in unsustainable principles. That is an economy that is not moral. Not the economy we need to be the great nation we should be.”
The still-in-flux race for the Democratic nomination has made Delaware, which generally gets limited attention during the candidate selection process, a critical state in amassing delegates. In February 2008, then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama held a campaign rally in Wilmington's Rodney Square, which drew an estimated 10,000 people and is cited as a catalyst for his victory over Hillary Clinton.
That was an anomaly for a state whose delegate votes in primaries – and electoral votes in November – are almost never deciding factors.
Read more: www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/23/bernie-sanders-supporters-begin-crowd-wilmingtons-riverfront/83391696/