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Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician who has been the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007.

Sanders is the longest serving independent in U.S. congressional history.

Since his election to the House of Representatives in 1991, he has caucused with the Democratic Party, which has entitled him to congressional committee assignments and at times given Democrats a majority.

Sanders became the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee in January 2015; he had previously been chair of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee for two years.

Since January 2017, he has been Chair of the Senate Democratic Outreach Committee.

Sanders's campaign against Hillary Clinton for the party's 2016 U.S. presidential nomination raised more money in small, individual contributions than any other in American history, and helped him rise to international recognition.

A self-described democratic socialist, Sanders is pro-labor and emphasizes reversing economic inequality.

Many scholars consider his views to be more in line with social democracy and New Deal-era American progressivism than democratic socialism.

A political campaign is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group.

In democracies, political campaigns often refer to electoral campaigns, by which representatives are chosen or referendums are decided.

In modern politics, the most high-profile political campaigns are focused on general elections and candidates for head of state or head of government, often a president or prime minister.

Participatory democracy emphasizes the broad participation of constituents in the direction and operation of political systems.

Etymological roots of democracy (Greek and ) imply that the people are in power and thus that all democracies are participatory.

However, participatory democracy tends to advocate more involved forms of citizen participation and greater political representation than traditional representative democracy.