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Bernie Won Iowa
New article from Meagan Day & Jacobin.
...Bernie won Iowa. And his campaign won by organizing immigrants, refugees, and people who work late shifts. His campaign did it by investing heavily in satellite caucuses and canvassing people in multiple languages to turn them out. His campaign did it by assigning organizers to post up outside of factory gates as workers got off shifts in the middle of the night, and by sending volunteers to their homes to confirm their participation. His campaign did it by organizing the working class.
There is no question who won Iowa. The only remaining question is which campaign we want leading the fight against Donald Trump: the campaign that overcame intense bipartisan hostility by pounding the pavement and turning thousands of people out to caucus for the first time in their lives — or one of the other campaigns that showed no such creativity, failed to inspire nontraditional voters, and came up short?
Who has the passionate support, the level of organization, the hard-won money, the vigor, and the vision to win the general election? You already know the answer. It’s the candidate who won Iowa: Bernie Sanders.
There is no question who won Iowa. The only remaining question is which campaign we want leading the fight against Donald Trump: the campaign that overcame intense bipartisan hostility by pounding the pavement and turning thousands of people out to caucus for the first time in their lives — or one of the other campaigns that showed no such creativity, failed to inspire nontraditional voters, and came up short?
Who has the passionate support, the level of organization, the hard-won money, the vigor, and the vision to win the general election? You already know the answer. It’s the candidate who won Iowa: Bernie Sanders.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/02/bernie-sanders-iowa-caucus-democratic-presidential-primary