Hillary Clinton’s campaign for President has unexpected challenge from independent Bernie Sanders | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

The gruff, disheveled and unabashedly liberal Sen. Bernard Sanders has emerged as the top challenger to front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, gaining momentum in early-voting states as more Democratic voters flock to his call for a political revolution from the left. Mrs. Clinton still enjoys big leads in most of the polls, but the surge by Mr.…

Bernie Sanders is a real threat to Hillary Clinton, and to the political establishment. It doesn’t matter that he is a self-described Democratic Socialist. It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t have the money other candidates have. It doesn’t matter that he’s 73 and doesn’t always brush his hair. Bernie Sanders is real. He’s not poll-tested and…