From someone named Thomas, a few minutes ago…
Regarding your tweet about Bernie Sanders not getting enough press coverage, why should he? Hillary is beating him by 20 points. Do you really think he has a chance at the nomination?
I dunno. It's a long way to go until that gets decided. Sanders stands a decent chance of winning some early primaries and that never hurts anyone's chances. And we can all imagine things that could happen between now and the Democratic Convention that could be real game-changers.
But, hey, all the Republican leaders are saying, as Mitt Romney did this morning, that Donald Trump ain't gonna be the nominee and the press coverage is practically The Donald Trump Comedy Hour. No one thinks Ben Carson has a shot at it even though some polls have him in the lead for the Republican nomination. Jeb! Bush is at 8-10% and running out of loot and he's getting more face time than Sanders. (Okay, admittedly most of Bush's coverage suggests how his candidacy is collapsing. Then again, most of the time when Sanders is mentioned, it's in stories about how he can't win.)
This morning, Larry David's impression of Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live seems to be more newsworthy than anything the real Bernie said the last few days.
Like I said, I don't know if Sanders has a real chance to be the nominee. At some point, it has to become an issue that he's not even a member of the party he wants to have nominate him. But I don't think that's what press coverage is about or should be about. I also don't think the Sanders candidacy is only about whether or not he gets to sit behind the big desk in the Oval Office. It's very much about trying to take the Democratic Party more to the left and to shine a spotlight on certain issues which many politicians would prefer to avoid. In that sense, I think he's succeeding. That merits more attention than he's received.