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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Washington, News, Politics, President, Wickenden, Wnyc, Barack, Obama, Lizza

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Margaret Talbot joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss Bernie Sanders’s continued success as a candidate.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

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It's Thursday, October 8th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday, October 8th.

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I'm Dorothy Wiccenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. Last Saturday at the Boston Convention Center,

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Senator Bernie Sanders spoke to an audience of some 20,000 supporters. We are running a people's campaign.

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And while the millionaires and billionaires may have more money than we do, we have something

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that they don't have. Look around this road. This is what we have.

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Margaret Talbot profiled Sanders in this week's issue of the magazine, and she joins me to discuss his unexpected success as a campaigner.

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So, Margaret, really, a 74-year-old Brooklyn-born socialist who's polling ahead of Clinton in New Hampshire and Iowa? How is he doing it?

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I know. I know. I don't think anybody would have predicted that when he got in the race back in the spring.

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And I think it's almost the attraction of the sort of anti-candidate. I know people use this word,

1:58.0

authentic a lot, and it can be overused, and it can be a cliche, but he certainly

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comes across that way. He's very blunt. He's kind of irascible. He is very much somebody who has

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