vermont has only one u.s. house member, that member has been sanders for 7-8 terms, so he's been running state-wide campaigns for quite some time...
principal reason - in my opinion - that there is little comment re. sanders' victory is that a number (a lot? many? most?) self-identified socialists do not consider sanders a socialist...
now, he calls himself one, and he always makes a big deal about referring to himself as an independent socialist, which a long-ago acquaintance of mine said was an oxymoron...
sanders' presence in the u.s. senate will not make one bit of political/policy difference, he will caucus with the dems as he as done during his time in the u.s. house...
on other hand, he is certainly deserving of mention, if only because presence of socialists in most elected national parliaments is commonplace...
michael hoover, reporting live from jackson, ms where: public school bond measure won yesterday with 80%+ of the vote, support was overwhelming even in predominantly affluent white ward #1, pretty significant outcome for this area...
jackson population is about 70% african-american, about 28% white...jackson student population is about 97% black, 2% white...most white jackson parents who didn't/haven't gone to the suburbs in the last several decades send their kids to one of the many private prep schools/academies around here...