I don't get this whole PoC discussion...

[Orsino]

97. Clinton began her career on the national stage as First Lady...

...and acquired her husband's First Black President reputation by association. She's said the right things, mostly (a d had some missteps ignored), and has retained the nostalgia vote by being an island of NotRepublicanism calm in the neoconservative storm of the last couple of decades. Perhaps most importantly, she has been publicly reviled by the same forces that most visibly retard progress in racial equality. That iconography is powerful, and won't be overturned by a few months of semi-exposure of Sanders' long record of civil rights activism.

Saying the right things matters, and Clinton has enjoyed decades of nearly free publicity on the subjects of equal opportunity and institutional racism. There's no way around it: Sanders has to do a lot in a few months for his message to begin to register in the national consciousness.