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    Bernie Sanders hasn't changed. Is that his strength or a weakness?

    by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Jul 27, 2019 5 minutes

    COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - After breakfast on a recent Saturday, Robert Fraass crossed the river from Omaha to this southwest corner of Iowa to catch Bernie Sanders at the opening of his newest campaign office.

    He sat in the fourth row, cheering and clapping with about 200 others as Vermont's senator delivered his familiar tirade against oligarchs and plutocrats and greedy corporations that, he said, are choking the life from America's middle and working classes.

    Fraass voted for Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary when the candidate ran as the left-leaning, fist-shaking alternative to establishment favorite Hillary Clinton. He's still a fan. But this time, with more than two dozen presidential candidates to choose from, Fraass is shopping around.

    He worries that Sanders, 77, is

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