Lives in a Shoe

Sanders a Hit with Millennial Women

Young, idealistic -- some of us had hoped to teach them to discount differences between genders, races... and maybe it worked.  But the Ready for Hillary bunch with their emotional pull of "Hillary -- Because Vagina" resonates more strongly for some Boomers than for their daughters.

Taryn Hogarth, 22, a University of South Dakota student, said the history-making prospect of a woman president is a deciding factor for her mother but not her

She trusts Sanders more than Clinton to get money out of politics and reform the criminal justice system. Though Sanders has served in Congress since 1990, she still sees him as “a fresh face” who makes her “excited for our government.”

“I would love to have a woman president, but I’d like the right woman president,” she said. “I want this to be based on the ideas and what they’re going to do for our country.”

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Apparently they LOVE his promise of free tuition and single payer healthcare and a pony for everybody but Bernie is unwilling or unable to explain how to pay for any of it despite gentle questions from Bill Maher . 

Billionaires for Bernie

Populist? My friend G and i were discussing Bernie's funding.  She seems to have imagined scores of children and widows carefully counting out pennies.  I imagined tie-dyed flower children carefully counting out pennies.  We were both wrong.

And so George Soros (worth $9 billion before Obama’s presidency began, $24 billion today) indulges in this luxury. And this year Soros is underwriting large chunks of the campaign of that young man Bernie Sanders.”

From Cliff Kincaid: "Soros isn’t the only billionaire financing groups or causes that Sanders believes in. Others include billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, billionaire gay activist Tim Gill, and billionaire anti-Second Amendment advocate Michael Bloomberg."

Warren Buffett has supported Democrats for ions.Bill Gates too. And Carlos Slim covers the debts of the New York Times. They are the three richest men in the world.