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Young Democrats Flock to Bernie Sanders, Spurning Hillary Clinton’s Polish and Poise
by Administrator on February 4, 2016 at 5:23 PM
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The New York Times
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Bernie Sanders is 74. He grew up playing stickball in the streets of Brooklyn and watching a black-and-white television.
Yet this child of the 1940s, who says Franklin D. Roosevelt is his favorite president, has inspired a potent political movement among young people today. College students wear shaggy white “Bernie” wigs on campus, carry iPhones with his image as their screen saver, and flock to his events by the thousands.
