Searching For Bernie (sanders)

  In the early days, when Bernie Sanders began his political career as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, what exactly was his appeal? And why is he attracting such huge crowds now?What’s his secret?“Consistent messaging since roughly 1972,” says Sue Prent of the Green Mountain Daily:  In an era when Americans are tired and cynical and fully aware that big money controls most political conversation, they like what they’re hearing from Bernie because he says what he truly thinks, not what the latest polling says he should think, or what the deepest pockets say he must think.In our interview, Sue and I also talk about:Bernie’s campaign style (Donald Trump flies around the country in his own Boeing 757; Bernie rents a Chevy to campaign in Iowa); parallels (if any) with Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential run, andwhat advice she might have, as a former Sanders campaign volunteer, for folks wh