What matters the most to you, an endorsement from a newspaper editorial page, a congressman, or a political organization? How about voting machine manipulation? Please comment. We need to know what you think; if you are able to ask your own nearby newspapers and your own Democratic politicos, please do so soon. You could do a world of good for Bernie Sanders in this humble and very personal way, in writing +/or on the phone.

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Bernie's endorsement by Jumaane Williams, an American politician who has served as the New York City Public Advocate since 2019. He formerly served as a member of the New York City Council from the 45th district, which includes East Flatbush, Flatbush, Flatlands, Marine Park, and Midwood in Brooklyn.

What matters the most to you, an endorsement from a newspaper, a movie star, an international scholar, a congressman, or a political organization? Please comment. We need to know what you think.

The following is from an article Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, in the UK Guardian, by Art Cullen, Editor of Iowa's Storm Lake Times:

The senator from Massachusetts dialed up Iowajust a month before the 3 February lead-off caucuses, while campaigning in New Hampshire on Thursday.She is known for ringing local politicians, activists or voters she has bumped into on the trail. She called us to thank the Storm Lake Times, the Iowa newspaper where I am editor, for endorsing her as the leading candidate of an impressive Democratic field, the first newspaper endorsement of the 2020 Iowa caucus cycle.

We chose her because she talks that old-time New Deal religion in a way that can perhaps help save struggling places like rural Iowa; Flint, Michigan; and West Virginia.The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders could argue that he is addressing those same themes.

At some point, there has to be a reckoning between Warren and Sanders for the progressive wing. Sanders's support remains rock-solid. He may be leading in New Hampshire, and anyone might be leading in Iowa right now. I asked Warren how she could reel in my brother in Dubuque, a union man who brooks nobody but Sanders.

Warren mustered no direct answer but offered an appeal."C'mon guys, this is the best chance we have to elect a real progressive since FDR," Warren replied.That might be the strongest statement she has made about Sanders.

So far they have played each other by YMCA rules (no sharp elbows). She relishes parrying former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has bypassed the early states with a nationwide TV ad blitz.

Art Cullen is the editor of the Storm Lake Times in north-west Iowa, where he won the Pulitzer prize for editorial writing. He is a columnist for Guardian US, and is author of the book Storm Lake: Change, Resilience and Hope in America's Heartland, due out in paperback this month from Penguin

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CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday shows Bernie Sanders leading the field in both Iowa and New Hampshire.

In the Granite State, Sanders leads with a two point advantage, according to the poll. Former vice president Joe Biden followed in second position with 25 percent, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren in third with 18 percent and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg next in line with 13 percent.

No other candidates in the New Hampshire poll received double-digit support. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar registered 7 percent support. Businessman Tom Steyer and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker each received 3 percent.

31 percent of Democrats in the Hawkeye State said they had definitely made up their mind about who they would be supporting in the primary. 57 percent said they had probably made up their mind, while 12 percent said they would probably end up changing their mind.

The Iowa and New polls are the first conducted since the holiday break.

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Any routinely electoral questioning stance leads naturally into a far more troubling eventuality and that is the gaping holes in computer forensics and potential manipulations of voting machines.

If you haven't watched this unedited film, Uncounted: the New Math of American Elections, you should. Everyone should! How prepared are we for such problems?

They were certainly rampant in Texas in 2018 but neither Beto nor the Democratic Attorney General candidate, Justin Nelson, seemed to want to raise the issues, not at all, and they were first published in the Dallas Morning News on October 11, 2018, almost a full month before that election in Texas.

It has happened so many times before, and no one is talking yet about how to prevent it in 2020.

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An Iowa Congresswoman, Rep. Abby Finkenauer, endorsed Biden recently, and according to CNN, this gets absurdly trumpeted up to be considered equal to the endorsement of Bernie Sanders by AOC on the "compelling" grounds that they are both young. They go on to say in an Analysis by CNN's Harry Enten:

Biden, though, does significantly better in endorsements. He has 33 endorsements from members of Congress and governors. He scored his latest endorsementfrom Rep. Abby Finkenauer of Iowa this week, and he's the only candidate to get a congressional or gubernatorial endorsement in the last month. His closest competitor (Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey) has only 13 endorsements. Sanders has a mere six.

Dating back to 1980, endorsement leaders at this point have a strong track record of winning primaries. They've gone on to win the nomination 10 of 14 times. When a candidate like Biden leads in the polls and endorsements, they've won 7 of 9 nominations.

It's not entirely clear whether fundraising or endorsements is a better indicator of future success. The success rating in predicting winners is fairly similar. Moreover, we can run statistical equations and find that these two factors are about equally predictive when you take into account the size of the edge the leaders have over the competition.

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Authors Bio:

Early in the 2016 Primary campaign, I started a Facebook group: Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Help Him Win! As the primary season advanced, we shifted the focus to advancing Bernie's legislation in the Senate, particularly the most critical one, to protect Oak Flat, sacred to the San Carlos Apaches, in the Tonto National Forest, from John McCain's efforts to privatize this national forest and turn it over to Rio Tinto Mining, an Australian mining company whose record by comparison makes Monsanto look like altar boys, to be developed as North America's largest copper mine. This is monstrous and despicable, and yet only Bernie's Save Oak Flat Act (S2242) stands in the way of this diabolical plan.

We added "2020" to the title.


I am an art gallery owner in Santa Fe since 1980 selling Native American painting and NM landscapes, specializing in modern Native Ledger Art.


I have always been intensely involved in politics, going back to the mid's 1970's, being a volunteer lobbyist in the US Senate for the Secretary General of the United Nations, then a "snowball-in-hell" campaign for US Senate in NM in the late 70's, and for the past 20 years have worked extensively to pressure the FDA to rescind its approval for aspartame, the neurotoxic artificial sweetener metabolized as formaldehyde. This may be becoming a reality to an extent in California, which, under Proposition 65, is considering requiring a mandatory Carcinogen label on all aspartame products, although all bureaucracies seem to stall under any kind of corporate pressure.


Bills to ban aspartame were in the State Senates of New Mexico and Hawaii, but were shut down by corporate lobbyists (particularly Monsanto lobbyists in Hawaii and Coca Cola lobbyists in New Mexico).


For several years, I was the editor of New Mexico Sun News, and my letters to the editor and op/eds in 2016 have appeared in NM, California, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and many international papers, on the subject of consumer protection. Our best issue was 10 days before Obama won in 2008, when we published a special early edition of the paper declaring that Obama Wins! This was the top story on CNN for many hours, way back then....


My highest accomplishments thus far are

1. a plan to create a UN Secretary General's Pandemic Board of Inquiry, a plan that is in the works and might be achieved even before the 75th UN General Assembly in September 2020.


2. Now history until the needs becomes clear to the powers who run the United Nations: a UN Resolution to create a new Undersecretary General for Nutrition and Consumer Protection, strongly supported ten years ago by India and 53 cosponsoring nations, but shut down by the US Mission to the UN in 2008. To read it, google UNITED NATIONS UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL FOR NUTRITION, please.


These are not easy battles, any of them, and they require a great deal of political and journalistic focus. OpEdNews is the perfect place for those who have a lot to say, so much that they exceed the limiting capacities of their local and regional newspapers. Trying to go beyond the regional papers seems to require some kind of "inside" credentials, as if you had to be in a club of corporate-accepted writers, and if not, you are "from somewhere else," a sad state of corporate induced xenophobia that should have no place in America in 2020!

This should be a goal for every author with something current to say: breaking through yet another glass ceiling, and get your say said in editorial pages all over America. Certainly, this was a tool that was essentially ignored in 2016, and cannot be ignored in the big elections of 2020.


In my capacity as Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev