Proving that US voters are still energenised to go to the polls to voice their support for "political revolution", self-described socialist Senator Bernie Sanders won the Democrats Indiana primary on May 3 -- besting rival Hillary Clinton and notching a much-needed victory as the corporate media and political class continues to discount his chances and downplay the accomplishments of the campaign.
"The political revolution wins in Indiana!" the Sanders campaign tweeted just after 9pm eastern.
Bernie Sanders
Proving that US voters are still energenised to go to the polls to voice their support for "political revolution", self-described socialist Senator Bernie Sanders won the Democrats Indiana primary on May 3 -- besting rival Hillary Clinton and notching a much-needed victory as the corporate media and political class continues to discount his chances and downplay the accomplishments of the campaign.
"The political revolution wins in Indiana!" the Sanders campaign tweeted just after 9pm eastern.
The divisions in the Republican Party over Donald Trump's candidacy in Republican primaries have been the subject of much commentary 鈥 and it remains to be seen how this will play out. We may not know until the Republican convention.
But the divisions in the Democratic Party due to the Bernie Sanders' candidacy in Democrat primaries are coming more and more to the fore 鈥 including in the capitalist press.
Supporters at a Bernie Sanders rally in St Mary鈥檚 Park in the Bronx on April 14.
Despite a decisive victory on April 19, providing further confirmation of her likely nomination, in many respects Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton emerged from the New York primary more damaged and her party more divided.
When I met up with Mathis D眉hrsen, he was looking a bit sleepy. And no wonder! He'd stayed up between 1.30am and 11.30am making phone calls to prospective voters in the New York state primary for the Democratic Party presidential candidate to urge support for Bernie Sanders. He is only one of a modest but growing group of people in Australia campaigning for Sanders from afar.
Sanders addresses rally outside his childhood home in Brooklyn, New York. April 8.
A McClatchy-Marist poll, conducted at the end of March, puts self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders ahead of establishment favourite Hillary Clinton by two percentage points in the Democratic presidential race, TeleSUR English said on April 5.
With 93% of precincts reporting as of this writing, Bernie Sanders has secured win in the Wisconsin primary, claiming about 56.3% of the vote so far, said.
Protesters have demanded the reinstatement of the United States鈥 Voting Rights Act of 1965, a complete count of provisional ballots in Arizona鈥檚 March 22 presidential primaries and a public random recount of unsorted mail ballots in the state, .
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders scored resounding caucus victories in Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Utah and Washington in recent days, . Recent polls show the self-proclaimed socialist has gained significant ground on Democrat establishment favourite Hillary Clinton, who pundits expected to have the nomination all but sewn up by now.
Across the US young people are pouring into the polling booths. The contest is not the Presidential election 鈥 that is still some months away. Instead they are lining up to vote in the primaries for the Democratic Party. In particular they are turning up to vote for an old Jewish radical from New York.
Sanders at a campaign rally in San Diego, March 22. Democrat voters in Utah, Idaho, and Arizona have turned out in unprecedented numbers or March 22 caucuses, with self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders winning big in Utah and Idaho, that day.
During the early days of his campaign to be US president, Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders wondered if the crowds that he saw on the street were headed to a baseball game, only to be told: 鈥淎ctually they are on the way to hear you鈥.
This story illustrates how the Sanders message of free education, affordable health care, a $15 minimum wage, taxing the mega-rich and support for renewable energy has taken off.
Young Americans 鈥 the millennials 鈥 facing unpayable student debts, unaffordable health care, low wages and climate change inaction, are flocking to his campaign.
The media has trumpeted Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton鈥檚 apparently certain nomination after the March 15 caucuses, but the race is far from over. Tom Cahill writes, in a piece abridged from US Uncut, on why.
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