Obama had financial support and endorsements from the party establishment players and Sanders should strive to do the same, said Stephen Farnsworth, political science professor at University of Mary Washington.
“There have been quite a few flash-in-the-pan candidates,” he said. “There never was a President Santorum or a President Howard Dean. The role of money is so prominent in American politics, it’s virtually impossible for an insurgent candidate to get very far against an establishment candidate.”
