Centrists v. Progressives, Electing women, & activism, racial sensitivity

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Today: WBAI Julianna Forlano talks Centrists & Progressives, Robin Wilt talks electing women, Barbara Nelson on race, & Najee Richardson on Activism.

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We talk about several topics including electing women, centrists supporting progressives, activism, & racial sensitivity.

Today we will run four more interviews that I performed at Netroots Nation 2019. The idea is that many of the great work these activists and politicians are doing too often go unnoticed by our mainstream media. That is the classic reason why Independent Media is so important. We fill an important space, one that actually changes minds and empowers at the grassroots level.

Barbara Nelson, California Activist talk racial sensitivity
Robin Wilt, Executive Director of Woke PAC on electing women
Julianna Forlano, Host at WBAI & Act.TV talk Democratic Centrists moving left & more
Najee Richardson, Pennsylvania Student Power Network talks about engaging community

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DailyKos: Democratic voters now more likely to support a candidate who backs Medicare for All

As Democratic voters have been getting more used to the idea of Medicare for All—and finding out more about it, presumably—it has been growing in popularity in at least one survey. Morning Consult has found that, among Democratic voters, “net support (the share of those who said that attitude would make them more likely to back a candidate minus the share who said they would be less likely) grew from 35 points in January to 52 points in the latest poll.”

When you look at the actual candidates, however, apart from that issue, Joe Biden still leads in national polling, which is causing many to think that the safe, moderate choice is what Democrats need to go with.

But, and it’s a big but, as Daily Kos’ Kerry Eleveld wrote, those national polls don’t tell the whole story. They are certainly not predictive of the outcomes of actual primary caucusing and voting. Looking deeper into the aggregate of polling and the candidates’ approval ratings, there are five candidates still strongly in the mix, and all but Biden and Pete Buttigieg have plans that go beyond adding upon the current system to varying degrees. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris all envision Medicare for All, with varying paths for how to get to that end goal.

It turns out that Democratic voters are getting the hang of that, and seem to be getting much more comfortable with it. The primaries aren’t going to be decided on health care alone, nor is the general election, but the narrative that Medicare for All is some crazy, far-out socialist notion is not going to fly with Democratic voters.