Even the Bernie Sanders basement dwellers (what Hillary Clinton called Sanders supporters) still can’t stand Hillary. Can’t really blame them. It might be getting so bad for Clinton that Bernie Sanders my still win Vermont on November 8th, via a write-in vote. If this write-in campaign is serious, Sanders could even pick off New Hampshire, which is basically a copy of Vermont, just upside down.
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Bernie Sanders is back from the brink, surging again as a write-in candidate in his home state of Vermont.
Vermont is among the top states where write-in candidate inquiries are getting the most traction on Google. Vermont is also one of only seven states where write-in candidates are completely allowed and counted as equal to the actual candidates (along with New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Iowa).That means Sanders threatens to peel off Vermont’s three electoral votes in the same way that Trump could pick up an electoral vote in Maine’s second district, where he is leading big league.
In September 2012, this reporter wrote of “The Northern Strategy,” a concerted effort by Northeastern conservatives to shore up electoral support on the Senate, House, and gubernatorial level in the aftermath of Scott Brown’s historic 2010 Senate victory in Massachusetts. Brown is a strong Trump supporter.
Trump’s campaign stop at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut shortly before Steve Bannon’s hiring as campaign CEO was notable for its attacks on the Monica Lewinsky scandal and for Trump’s Ross Perot-style poster props.