Interesting! This part got me thinking though:<p>>And last summer a map compiling all the Sanders campaign happenings across the country, built by volunteer Rapi Castillo, a Philippine immigrant living in Queens who isn’t an American citizen and can’t vote this November, became the official “eventslink on Sanders’ website.<p>So a foreigner is effectively giving an in-kind campaign contribution to a candidate? How come people (and the law) lash back at monetary contributions but not this kind?
Their site, not linked off in the article: <a href="https://coders.forsanders.com/" rel="nofollow">https://coders.forsanders.com/</a>
This article reminded me of a feature about Obama campaign from 2012:<p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-the-nerds-go-marching-in/265325/?single_page=true" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-t...</a><p>HN discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4794720" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4794720</a>
The exact same folks who Bernie is going to raise taxes for, mind you. He won't really be able to do anything against the 1% (since they own the Congress, and will continue to own it), but upper middle class represents an attractive target for a cash grab to pay for all those nice free rides he's promising to the poor.
So far: 51 comments and so far <i>zero</i> comments about the technical aspects of this article - only political bickering.<p>Yet another thinly veiled political story that somehow make it to the front page because it has the word "coders" in the title.
Before we start admiring things, let's see what happens on Super Tuesday (12 days away).<p>Nothing of what Sanders is doing is going to survive past a left primary. Absolutely nothing he is promising can be done without Congress.<p>------------<p>reply to below since I can only answer two replies on HN anymore before being blocked:<p>Wrong comparison.<p>That's like wanting to be manager when you have only worked at a company for a couple years.<p>Come on now.<p>If Sanders ideas can work so well, why don't all these eager people first implement them at a local level where they have more immediate power? Nope, they want to go directly to the executive because it is a figurehead.<p>Sanders comes from a 96% WHITE state - they are ridiculously homogeneous and are nothing like the rest of the United States. Only Maine is whiter. Why is his state like that in the 21st century? Why does everyone else feel unwelcome to live there?<p>Sanders will never attract the 3-4% of undecided voters and we will end up with Trump picking the next few supreme court judges.<p>Why are you okay with losing the presidency for the next eight years based on theoretical ideas that are not proven to work anywhere and won't get voted for by the masses?