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Bernie Sanders strategy has been based on an appeal to younger voters and the belief that he could get increased turnout of that age group. While there has been some reason all along to question that belief, Super Tuesday gives a more clear – although not yet definitive picture. Young voters While many were enthusiastic, they did not turn out in the numbers Sanders has hoped for. Overall, people age 18-29 compose 21% of the adult population. But voters of that age only composed between 11% (Tennessee and Colorado) to 16% (Massachusetts) of total voters on Super Tuesday. Young voter turnout Exit polls taken by USAtoday actually seem to show that he’s gone backwards from 2016. According to USAtoday, while the number of primary voters in Virginia inceased from 800,000 in 2016 to 1.3 million in 2020, that increase seems to have been confined to older voters.... if Sanders fails to win the nomination, what will remain? True, there will be mailing lists and other contact information, but how will it be used after the election? The history of progress in this country is a history of mass, disruptive movements in the streets and work places. That goes for the labor movement, which only made real progress through the sit-in strikes and similar tactics in the 1930s, to the struggle of black people against white supremacy, which only made any real progress through similar tactics in the 1960s. Full article: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/03/05/what-next-after-super-tuesday/ John Reimann -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
