{"id":12491,"date":"2016-02-07T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T20:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12491"},"modified":"2016-02-07T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T20:04:05","slug":"maybe-a-minor-plus-for-bernie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12491","title":{"rendered":"Maybe a minor plus for Bernie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the AP wire, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2016\/02\/06\/gun-control-new-hampshire-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gun Control Issue Not Resonating As Key Issue For NH\u00a0Primary<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; The gun culture is alive and well here, and with a population overwhelmingly familiar with and comfortable with firearms, gun-control issues that have resonated across the nation barely register among voters getting ready for Tuesday\u2019s presidential primary &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gun control has not resonated across the nation.\u00a0 It is being kept alive in a few states (NY, NJ, etc.) and urban areas known for their far Left politicians and institutional corruption (NY, NJ, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>The issue is only getting some attention in the national press because one very wealthy person, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikebloomberg.com\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Bloomberg<\/a>, is keeping the gun control movement alive almost by himself by dumping tens of millions of his own dollars into it.\u00a0 Without him the movement would be largely bankrupt.<\/p>\n<p>The only candidate who might get a little mileage out of it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berniesanders.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Sanders<\/a>.\u00a0 His record is slightly less offensive than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton&#8217;s<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/06\/us\/politics\/neighborly-ties-bind-some-new-hampshire-voters-to-bernie-sanders.html\" target=\"_blank\">might help him<\/a> in Monday&#8217;s primary.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D12491&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; 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The gun culture is alive and well here, and with a population overwhelmingly familiar with and comfortable with firearms, gun-control issues that have resonated across the nation barely register among voters getting ready for Tuesday\u2019s presidential primary &#8230;&#8221; Gun control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D12491&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12491\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12491\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12491\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2016","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12491"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12499,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions\/12499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}