In South Carolina, Sanders tries to court black voters

Now she is hearing the same about another Clinton challenger she backs: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I -Vt., speaks during a fundraiser reception Monday, August 17, 2015, in Chicago.

In 1968, a liberal senator named Eugene McCarthy shocked political observers by leading a coalition of liberal and anti Vietnam War voters and nearly winning the New Hampshire primary against the overwhelming favorite for the Democratic nomination, President Lyndon B. Johnson.

In March, Sanders was way behind Clinton in the polls, garnering only 8 percent of potential votes from respondents. It is wrong to allow hundreds of people to die unnecessarily because they don’t have Medicaid. She confirmed Friday that he will meet privately with black elected officials, ministers and other community leaders while in South Carolina.

The past week was full of reminders of her advantage here. Though Mr Sanders has served in Washington since 1991, he sees himself as an outsider: a self-described democratic socialist from an ornery mountain state, who sits in Congress as an independent.

“This is not communism, this is not five-year plans, collectivized agriculture and nationalized industry”, he says. He has spent the past 30 years campaigning in Vermont, a state that is 95 percent white.

Despite his history of support for civil rights, Sanders has repeatedly clashed with activists from the Black Lives Matter movement, most notably at the Netroots conference in July. Mr Sanders agrees, predicting that if he wins the Democratic nomination, he will inspire young and working Americans in a way that establishment politicians can not .

“ABC CBS NBC none of them seem to even bother to mention Bernie Sanders“, said supporter Melanie Woods.

He isn’t leaning on his standard stump speech alone.

Sanders will meet with Black Lives Matter activists to further discuss his platform, according to Twitter.

Bernie Sanders made his first stop in South Carolina since announcing his campaign Friday.

South Carolina voters could be ready to Feel the Bern.

Sanders added that South Carolina would create “tens of thousands” of decent-paying jobs.

A more recent op-ed by Cillizza rejected the entire premise that Clinton could be overtaken, saying, “It’s too late for Democrats to start rethinking Clinton’s 2016 viability”.

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Yet corporate media show a fascination with just one of these characters. “I believe with work it can be done”, Singletary said. “For the life of me, I will never understand how a family like the Koch brothers, worth $85 billion, apparently think that’s not enough money”.