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    To the Point

    What Fires Are Stoking "The Bern?"

    US Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is nothing if not consistent.

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    By Warren Olney • Feb 16, 2016 • 41m Listen

    US Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is nothing if not consistent. From college days in Chicago to Capitol Hill to this year's campaign, he's pursued a single goal: "to fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all" and "to take on the enormous economic and political power of the billionaire class."

    Despite his Socialist leanings, Sanders has worked with Republicans in the Senate. As Mayor of Burlington, Vermont he was praised for fiscal efficiency. Biographers, old friends and former staffers say he's out to change the way Americans are thinking. We hear how a very private man has made himself one of this year's most important public figures.

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    Who Is Bernie Sanders? A Profile of the Democratic Socialist
    1. 1:48What Fires Are Stoking "The Bern?"You’re reading this
    2. 44:00The Losing Record of Successful Culture Warriors
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Sarah Sweeney

      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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      Evan George

      Director of Content, News

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      Paul von Zielbauer

      Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times

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      Harry Jaffe

      The Washingtonian

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      Scott MacKay

      Rhode Island Public Radio

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      Christopher Pearson

      Vermont General Assembly

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    The full episode

    1 of 2
    Who Is Bernie Sanders? A Profile of the Democratic Socialist
    1. 1:48What Fires Are Stoking "The Bern?"You’re reading this
    2. 44:00The Losing Record of Successful Culture Warriors
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