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Stand Together & Fight Back (By Bernie Sanders):
Labor Day is a time for honoring the working people of this country. It is also a time to celebrate the accomplishments of the activists and organizers who fought for the 40-hour work week, occupational safety, minimum wage law, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and affordable housing. These working people, and their unions, resisted the oligarchs of their day, fought for a more responsive democracy, and built the middle class.
Today we can - and we must - follow their example. It's time to rebuild the crumbling middle class of our country and make certain that every working person in the United States of America has a chance at a decent life.
Against overwhelming odds, the men and women of the labor movement changed society for the better. If you've ever enjoyed a paid vacation, a sick day, or a pension, they are the people to thank. And if you don't have those benefits on your job today, they are the people who can help you get them.
Sanders Maintains His Frontrunner Status In NH:
According to one new poll, Hillary Clinton is no longer trailing Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire. Sanders has pulled ahead.
The Sanders surge isn't just his massive crowds. The new poll shows Bernie Sanders beating Clinton in New Hampshire 41 percent to 32 percent. The Vermont senator is up nine points from July when he was trailing the Democratic frontrunner.
Vice President Joe Biden, whose entry into the race would further upend the Democratic field, is third with 16 percent.
Sanders spent the last three days blanketing Iowa and railing against Wall Street. Yesterday he said Clinton's "people are getting nervous about the kind of energy and enthusiasm" his campaign has generated.
After a summer marked by persistent questions about her private e-mail server while Secretary of State, Clinton's lead has also narrowed in Iowa. The 24-point advantage she had in July has been cut to just 11.
A Commanding Lead
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has a solid lead over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire's Democratic primary, a new poll shows.
The NBC/Marist College poll out Sunday found that if the primary were held today, Sanders would capture 41% of New Hampshire voters, while Clinton would get 32%.
The poll also includes Vice President Joe Biden, who is currently mulling entering the race. He would grab 16% of the vote.
Sanders' lead slightly higher than a Public Policy Polling poll conducted in mid-August that found Sanders with 7% of the lead.
According to the NBC/Marist poll, even without Biden included, Sanders would still win the Granite State handily. In fact, he would lead Clinton by 11 points without Biden in the race.
Sanders Represents The Working Class:
As we celebrate Labor Day 2015, it’s worth pausing to consider which candidate running for president best represents the working class. The Republicans, despite their folksy rhetoric, are the party of Big Business. For decades, their policies have undermined the economic interests of their social base. They support corporate tax cuts; they push trade deals that outsource jobs to low-wage countries; they oppose raising the minimum wage; they want to shrink social safety nets; they refuse to invest in America’s crumbling infrastructure and their pro-corporate policies, which masquerade as small government initiatives, have increased income inequality and put the squeeze on the middle class.
If you doubt the GOP’s indifference to working and middle class issues, re-watch the last Republican presidential debate. Among the many things not mentioned were campaign finance, the wealth gap, institutional corruption and student debt. These are all problems that disproportionately harm working class voters; Republicans ignore them because their policies are responsible for them and because they don’t have (or desire) solutions.
So that leaves the Democrats. As I wrote last month, there are two candidates who matter in the Democratic race right now: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. If you’re concerned with the rights and welfare of workers, it’s not even close: Bernie Sanders is the most credible candidate. Clinton is conscious of Sanders, so she’s moved slightly to the left in recent months, but if you look closely at their positions on middle class issues, the contrast is clear.
Labor Day Events In NH:
Presidential candidates of both political parties will be celebrating Labor Day in New Hampshire as summer unofficially draws to a close and attention on the first-in-the-nation primary intensifies.
Two Democrats, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, will speak at the New Hampshire AFL-CIO’s Annual Labor Day Breakfast at the St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Manchester at 11:30 a.m.
The Milford Labor Day Parade, which begins at 1 p.m., will include Sanders, as well as Republican candidates Carly Fiorina, a former business executive, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Labor For Bernie:
Smith once thought of Bernie Sanders as an "obscure" U.S. senator. That changed in August when Smith joined 27,000 people to hear the Democratic White House candidate speak at a Los Angeles sports arena.
"The other candidates - they talk in these very calculated, milquetoast, vague ways - they just don’t come across as human," said Smith, the business manager for Local 36, a branch of a roofers’ union. "He just seems like your next-door neighbor."
Sanders' vow to protect American jobs and rein in big corporations has resonated with union workers such as Smith. Sanders, who is challenging Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has put the courtship of organized labor at the heart of his fight.
A Letter To The Editor:
I have never closely followed politics until I saw Bernie Sanders in Epping/Durham/Exeter. I am a senior but like a groupie who keeps following musicians around. I can’t keep away from this man who makes more sense to me than any candidate or person for that matter. He excites me. I listen to him and I have hope. Hope that we can have our country back, hope that other countries respect us again, hope that our elections will no longer be paid for, hope that my Social Security and Medicare will be solvent, hope for working people receiving their fair share of salaries and benefits, hope that we can all feel united, hope that prisons will not be private having to keep their quota of prisoners there, hope that we can have clean food and water, good soil, hope to have no fears about planet destruction by global warming, hope to see more bees and butterflies than the four I have seen all summer, hope for non polluted air, hope for decisions that do not call for war, hope that our country is run by caring, non-greedy people who love what America stands for, who listen to the people who elected them not billionaires who buy their souls, who love thae people, the animals respect all life and not what American can add to their bank accounts.
Please read about Senator Sanders and you will join my excitement for a healthy America for our grandchildren
Sanders Can Win Minorities:
rnestine Keahna sat on a wooden bench outside the Meskwaki Tribal Center in Tama, Iowa, with three of her seven children, one granddaughter and one great-grandson. She stared off into a parking lot spread out on the 8,000 acre settlement of her homeland and spoke with her daughters about what they had just heard from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
"He makes a lot of sense," said Nina Young Bear, Keahna's 55-year-old daughter.
"Too much sense. Like Obama," 78- year old Keahna said. "I wish Obama could run again." Keahna's daughters nodded their heads in agreement.
Sanders had just spent an hour of his Iowa tour in a gymnasium at the Meskwaki Tribal Center, where approximately 250 locals came to hear him speak. The settlement is not a hot spot for presidential candidates -- in fact, most people in the room couldn't recall a visit from a presidential candidate at all. Sanders drove to this campaign stop immediately after finishing a roundtable with more than 20 Hispanic community members in Muscatine, Iowa. With these back-to-back events in the Hawkeye State, Sanders' campaign is making it clear that he's hoping to gain traction with minority groups in the state.
3 Reasons Sanders Is Gaining On Clinton:
Sanders has started building up his campaign's infrastructure by hiring even more people to his staff, according to CNN. NBC News said people are rallying behind Sanders' socialist message of economic equality and grassroots political organization for the same reason people are rallying behind Donald Trump's outrageous statements: They are tired of establishment-minded candidates who use big money to fund their campaigns. Sander's crowds are getting bigger and bigger, but he realizes that he has to translate those crowds into votes by building up his campaign and talking about the right issues, according to NPR. His plight to get those votes might be made easier by a number of issues the Clinton campaign has encountered over the past few months. Here are three reasons why Sanders might be gaining on Clinton in recent polls.
Sanders Is Popular Among Young Voters
Since declaring his run for president, Sanders has held some of the largest rallies of any presidential candidate. In Portland, Ore., he drew a crowd of 28,000 in early August, according to the Washington Post. And that's because support for Sanders among young voters is growing considerably. In the latest Iowa poll, Sanders took the lead with first-time caucus goers by 12 points, young voters by 23 points, and independent voters by 21 points, according to the Washington Times.
'The Bernie Problem':
Bernie Sanders is becoming an increasingly big issue for Hillary Clinton.
Clinton may be the frontrunner in the Democratic race for the presidency, but Sanders has been putting up an unexpectedly robust challenge against her, and it appears to be paying off for him.
On Sunday, NBC News released a poll showing Sanders opening up a healthy lead over Clinton in the crucial state of New Hampshire.
Sanders has been drawing the biggest crowds of any candidate, Republican or Democrat, in the 2016 race. Meanwhile, Clinton continues to be dogged by the controversy surrounding her use of a private email server. On Friday, she said that she was “sorry” for causing any confusion among voters over her email, but insisted that she had acted fully within the law.
In a sign that she expects possible trouble in both New Hampshire and in Iowa, the New York Times reported Sunday that Clinton’s campaign is looking to the South to fend off Sanders
Sanders & Maine:
A socialist candidate (Bernie Sanders) for president? Such would not have been a foreign idea to many Maine workers in the opening years of the 20th century, when the Maine Socialist Party was organized, calling for the public ownership of railways, telegraphs and all other public utilities, and all industries controlled by monopolies, trusts and combines.
Forged on the anvil of discontent over an economic system gone awry, they could be found holding official positions within the established Maine labor movement, marching in Labor Day parades and fending off a litany of negative charges about their nature and purpose.
A profile of the Socialist blueprint for escaping “wage slavery” and securing “to the workers the full product of their toil” was evident in the platform of the local iconoclasts in Portland in 1901.
They called for the acquisition, by purchase or through new construction, of utilities such as waterworks, gas and electric light plants and street railways. The profit from operating such public works, they insisted, should be used to raise wages and shorten the length of the working day for workmen, and to improve the service and reduce the cost of such service to the public.