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IN 1987, WHILE he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, Bernie Sanders released an album of folk songs and poems titled “We Shall Overcome”. The record included anthems evocative of a deep Americana such as “This Land Is Your Land”, but also Civil Rights ballads like “Oh Freedom”.
The results in Michigan are particularly rough for Mr Sanders. In 2016 his surprise victory in the state over Hillary Clinton was an important win for a campaign that had struggled to build a winning coalition. He had lost the majority of the primaries and caucuses held the previous week, and trailed behind Mrs Clinton by 156 delegates . Yet despite the odds—polls had him down by 20 percentage points—he won the state, breathing new life into his campaign.
It was the white, working-class voters in these areas who dealt the ultimate blow to Mr Sanders’s candidacy. Cracks in his base had already begun to show—suburbanites and young voters had failed to turn out for him in Super Tuesday states in the revolutionary numbers that he has long promised. But until now it was not clear whether downtrodden Rustbelt whites would give him enough support to keep his hopes alive. Evidently, they did not.
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