With last night’s truly historic win in the New Hampshire primary by Bernie Sanders, the Hillary Clinton campaign now finds itself in the position of attempting to become the first Democrat since Adlai Stevenson to lose the New Hampshire primary by over twenty percentage points and be the nominee. Clinton’s incrementalism, appeals to her resume, being the most well funded, most endorsed Democratic candidate in history has done her no good as yet another fifty point lead in the polls just months ago has again evaporated, leading this time to a large defeat. To make matters worse, her opponent who eschews the traditional method of fundraising that is taking money for the wealthiest one percent, took crowdfunding the Presidency to a new level by holding a one minute fundraiser and broke the internet.
There is one more mode of attack that the Clinton camp and the Establishment can take. Single payer health care and free college tuition at public universities, how dare he! They are going to attack that crazy “socialist” and his utopian pipe dreams by using the old Reagan tactic of asking how he’s going to pay for it.
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