<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><i class="">Another one on trade in the elections…</i><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/us/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0" class="">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/us/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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<div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 29.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">Trade and Jobs Key to Victory For Bernie
Sanders
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">By YAMICHE ALCINDOR and </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; font-weight: 700" class="">PATRICK HEALY </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">MARCH 9, 2016
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">No Democratic presidential candidate had campaigned in Traverse City, Mich., in
decades until Senator </span><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'" class="">Bernie Sanders </span><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">pulled up to the concert hall near the Sears
store on Friday. Some 2,000 people mobbed him when he arrived, roaring in
approval as he called the country’s trade policies, and </span><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'" class="">Hillary Clinton</span><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">’s support for
them, “disastrous.”
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">“If the people of Michigan want to make a decision about which candidate
stood with workers against corporate America and against these disastrous trade
agreements, that candidate is Bernie Sanders,” Mr. Sanders said in Traverse City,
about 250 miles north of Detroit.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">Mr. Sanders pulled off </span><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'" class="">a startling upset in Michigan </span><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">on Tuesday by traveling to
communities far from Detroit and by hammering Mrs. Clinton on an issue that
resonated in this still-struggling state: her past support for trade deals that workers
here believe robbed them of manufacturing jobs. Almost three-fifths of voters said
that trade with other countries was more likely to take away jobs, according to exit
polls by Edison Research, and those voters favored Mr. Sanders by a margin of
more than 10 points.
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<div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">For Mrs. Clinton, it was a stinging defeat in a state that she had made a symbol
of her campaign, pledging to help the citizens of Flint overcome its contaminated
water crisis in a rare display of passion and outrage from a candidate who is often
reserved. The results were also a reminder of her weakness among two key voting
blocs: working-class white men and independent voters.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">The setback will almost certainly lead her to sharpen or even rethink her
economic message, which does not seem to be reaching voters who feel betrayed by
the </span><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'" class="">Democratic Party</span><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">’s embrace of free trade and left behind by the forces of
globalization and deregulation. The first big test will come Wednesday night, when
the two candidates debate in Miami, and then in the major industrial states that
vote on March 15, including Ohio and Illinois.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">Despite the loss, Mrs. Clinton still has a large lead among delegates and was
likely to pick up more than Mr. Sanders on Tuesday night because of her lopsided
win in Mississippi.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">But Michigan was a big prize for Mr. Sanders, who had poured money and
time into the state, and he is certain to capitalize on the attention it will bring. He
began advertising heavily about a month ago, spending nearly $2 million, while
Mrs. Clinton was more focused on the </span><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'" class="">Super Tuesday contests </span><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">held last week.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">One ad, according to advisers to Mr. Sanders, was especially effective: It
portrayed Mr. Sanders as the only candidate who had consistently opposed the free
trade agreements many Michigan voters blame for job losses.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">Mr. Sanders also seized on trade in </span><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'" class="">a Democratic debate </span><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">on Sunday, a face-off
that many analysts felt Mrs. Clinton had won, but that his advisers believed had
conveyed his intensity and sincerity on economic fairness.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">Despite Mrs. Clinton’s advantages, including the support of much of the state’s
Democratic establishment, the Sanders campaign showed deft organization and
strategy: Mr. Sanders crisscrossed the state, speaking to more than 41,000 people,
and his campaign opened 13 offices and hired 44 staffers to carry his message. He
also visited places that were largely overlooked by the Clinton campaign, including
Traverse City and Kalamazoo.
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<div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">Beverly Christensen, a retired pilot, said she had waited in line for a couple of
hours to see Mr. Sanders at his rally in Traverse City. She called it “huge” for Mr.
Sanders to come to the area, saying she could not recall another presidential
contender visiting since the home-state favorite Gerald Ford stopped by.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">“To have him show up here — it was like he was a superstar just coming to our
small town,” Ms. Christensen, 68, said in a telephone interview. “We felt like we
were being heard and being listened to, and that was really important.”
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">In Grand Traverse County, the home of Traverse City, Mr. Sanders won with
about 64 percent of the vote. He also performed especially well in counties that are
home to major campuses like the University of Michigan, Michigan State
University and Western Michigan University.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">As results flooded in Tuesday night, Mr. Sanders said he had felt the race
shifting in his favor in recent days as he talked with auto workers, union leaders
and college students, who all seemed eager for a more assertive progressive
agenda.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">“If you understand that two weeks ago, we were 30 points behind, it is very
clear, as I felt, that we have a lot of momentum with us,” Mr. Sanders said in an
interview. “Many of the vibes we were getting were very, very positive. I knew, I
knew that these polls that had us 20 or 30 points behind were wrong.”
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">But even Mr. Sanders seemed surprised by the outcome: He had no victory
speech prepared, instead holding a seven-minute news conference from Miami as
the votes were being counted.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">While Michigan’s economy has recovered substantially since the economic
crisis, its unemployment level has continued to hover above national averages.
More problematic, some analysts fear that many have simply stopped looking for
work as the state’s labor force has shrunk.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">Although the auto industry, which fuels the regional economy, has rebounded
significantly from the lows of 2008, Detroit only recently emerged from
bankruptcy. “He was strong and forceful on trade, and persuasive with a lot of
Michigan Democrats who have seen what’s happened to their economy over the </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14pt;" class="">past 20 years,” said Tad Devine, a senior adviser to the Sanders campaign.</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 4"><div class="section" style="background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)">
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<div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">When Mrs. Clinton accused Mr. Sanders at the debate of opposing the 2009
federal bailout of the auto industry, and then began broadcasting a radio ad about
the issue on Monday morning, Sanders advisers scrambled to come up with an ad
of their own, explaining that Mr. Sanders had supported the bailout but opposed
earlier aid for Wall Street that included some money for car companies.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">While the Clinton ad was unmatched on the air for several hours, Sanders
advisers said, their ad was up on Monday night and covered by the Michigan news
media — enough to halt the effectiveness of the Clinton spot, they argued.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">Mr. Sanders’s Michigan operation ultimately drew on hundreds of volunteers
to make phone calls and help transport voters to the polls on Tuesday, while other
aides used a string of short advertisements — some lasting five seconds or less — to
spread the message about Mr. Sanders on Facebook and Twitter.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">Mr. Sanders performed particularly well among white voters — especially
white men, but also white women — and he won independents strongly. He lost to
Mrs. Clinton among Democrats and minority voters.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">Mrs. Clinton’s advisers had been fearing a loss, and the team sent her
husband, former President Bill Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea Clinton, to
campaign around the state. Her campaign’s leaders are worried that Mr. Sanders
could upend her recent momentum if he parlays his narrow victory in Michigan
into wins next Tuesday in Illinois, Missouri and Ohio, where he is focusing his
resources.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">Jennifer Palmieri, a spokeswoman for the Clinton campaign, and other
advisers pointed to Mrs. Clinton’s significant lead in delegates and said the team
would like to “wrap up” the primary campaign “as soon as possible.”
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">“We feel confident she is going to be the nominee, but the race will continue to
be competitive through next week,” Ms. Palmieri said.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">Mrs. Clinton is competing hard in Illinois, Missouri and Ohio, as well as in
Florida and North Carolina, which also vote Tuesday. Her aides are confident that
even if she loses the three Midwestern states to Mr. Sanders, she could still come
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<div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(20.000000%, 20.000000%, 20.000000%)" class="">away with more delegates that night, because her victories in Florida and North
Carolina would most likely be bigger than his in the other states.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 13.000000pt; font-family: 'Georgia'; color: rgb(27.058820%, 27.058820%, 27.058820%)" class="">Amy Chozick, Steve Eder and Giovanni Russonello contributed reporting.
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</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'ArialMT'; color: rgb(27.058820%, 27.058820%, 27.058820%)" class="">A version of this article appears in print on March 9, 2016, on page A1 of the New York edition with the
headline: Trade and Jobs Swayed Voters Outside Detroit . </span></p>
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