America has forgotten its champions of social democracy

Democratic candidate Bernie Saunders follows in a proud tradition of American socialism which has now been forgotten by his countrymen. Alan Chin reports.

Buffeted by high winds and thick snow, Senator Bernie Sanders came back to the Cleveland area for the third time since he started running for president, speaking to the crowd of 3,600 packed into the Baldwin Wallace University gym.

Ohio remains one of the worst hit US states by successive economic crises over the last two decades, with some of the highest foreclosure rates in the country in 2008-09, and the average person earning 20 percent less now than in 2000.