“Nine months ago, we began our campaign here in New Hampshire.”
Bernie Sanders, the 74-year-old, Brooklyn-born Democratic senator running for president, was speaking on the night of his New Hampshire primary win. He gripped the podium with both hands, and pronounced “our” like ow-wah and “here” like hee-yuh. The septuagenarian clearly still had the fight in him, a fight he seemed to be enjoying very much.
The crowd screamed with excitement.
“We had no campaign organization,” Sanders continued. “We had no money, and we were taking on the most powerful political organization in the United States of America. And tonight, with what appee-yuhs to be a record-breaking voter turnout… because of a YOOGE voter turnout… and I say yooge! We won.”
This weekend, all eyes will turn to Nevada, where Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton supporters will caucus, for the first time, in the American West. Among Democrats, Nevada’s voting population is relatively diverse: 65 percent white, 15 percent black, and 15 percent Latino. Clinton was supposed to have a strong lead there, but recent polling has Sanders closing in on Clinton. More than 2,000 miles away from the success of New Hampshire, Nevada will be the first big test of Bernie’s staying power in the Democratic primary…
