Vt.'s Sanders poised to be 1st Senate socialist

The Boston Globe reports:

A new name may soon join Fidel, Vladimir, and Karl in the pantheon of famous socialists: Bernie.

That would be Vermont's US Representative Bernard Sanders, who, in this election season of tight races, appears to be cruising to victory in his campaign for the US Senate, according to recent polls.

If elected Tuesday, he would be the first self-proclaimed socialist to serve in the Senate. Far from a stern ideologue, Sanders cuts an affable figure among his constituents, a trait on display at a rally this week at Castleton State College.

"What is this doing to my image?" he quipped as he posed for photos at the rally Tuesday with a student whose hair was dyed fluorescent blue. "I'll definitely win the entire blue hair vote!"

In Washington, Sanders is known as a fiery legislator who leans far left and refuses to join any party, instead winning eight straight elections as an independent. He has long kept a plaque in his Capitol Hill office honoring Eugene V. Debs, founder of the American Socialist Party.

Bernie Sanders wants a new economic order in which there's less private property.Here's Barack Obama "enthusiastically" supporting socialist Bernie Sanders because he's for universal health care.