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Bernie Sanders, a proud socialist and outspoken advocate of wealth redistribution, just pulled even with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for Presi

by nugget 11y ago

Bernie Sanders, a proud socialist and outspoken advocate of wealth redistribution, just pulled even with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for President. In the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries, voters under the age of 30 broke for Sanders by 70% (compared to 57% for Obama in 2008). Meanwhile Donald Trump, who has the most liberal social record of all the GOP candidates, and who continually insults the GOP establishment, is 20 points ahead of the rest of the field. For us fans of politics, this is like witnessing two black swans simultaneously emerge within one pond and begin loudly mating. Your populist rebellion may be here.

meddlepal 11y ago
Wait and see on Bernie. NH democrats might as well be from Vermont and I don't think there is any doubt Bernie will eat VT's primary when it comes up.
- kmonsen 11y ago
  He will probably not win, but he is doing much better than anyone expected. Same with Trump (except he has an outside chance at winning this year).
  - yardie 11y ago
    They said the same of a certain junior senator from Illinois. Why do people think Sanders can't win when all evidence points to the contrary. Sanders is sticking to the core liberals. That solid 25-35% that will actually vote. Hillary is trying to pursue centre, swing voters and losing the liberal core. Trump is doing the same on the right. Hillary and Jeb assumed they had the left and right core voters, respectively, locked up and both have been proven completely wrong.
    - jandrese 11y ago
      Sanders can't seem to connect with Black and Latino voters, and if you can't do that you aren't going to win a Democratic primary. Minorities love Hillary, for reasons that are not entirely clear to me. Also, Bernie supporters skew very young, and young people are relatively bad at making to their polling places, especially in primary races. He has basically no chance of taking Nevada for example, and will probably be down by tens of points. If the election is close at all there it will be a major win for him. Also, the establishment Democrats see him as George McGovern 2.0 and are terrified of giving Donald Trump a 49 state sweep.
  - fineIllregister 11y ago
    Why does Trump have an "outside" chance? He's leading in polls for most upcoming primaries.
d4rkph1b3r 11y ago
Did...you reaed what he wrote at all? Bernie sanders supports inflating assets with QE (and affectively robbing the middle class due to asset inflation).

by nugget 11y ago

meddlepal 11y ago

Wait and see on Bernie. NH democrats might as well be from Vermont and I don't think there is any doubt Bernie will eat VT's primary when it comes up.

kmonsen 11y ago
He will probably not win, but he is doing much better than anyone expected. Same with Trump (except he has an outside chance at winning this year).
- yardie 11y ago
  They said the same of a certain junior senator from Illinois. Why do people think Sanders can't win when all evidence points to the contrary. Sanders is sticking to the core liberals. That solid 25-35% that will actually vote. Hillary is trying to pursue centre, swing voters and losing the liberal core. Trump is doing the same on the right. Hillary and Jeb assumed they had the left and right core voters, respectively, locked up and both have been proven completely wrong.
  - jandrese 11y ago
    Sanders can't seem to connect with Black and Latino voters, and if you can't do that you aren't going to win a Democratic primary. Minorities love Hillary, for reasons that are not entirely clear to me. Also, Bernie supporters skew very young, and young people are relatively bad at making to their polling places, especially in primary races. He has basically no chance of taking Nevada for example, and will probably be down by tens of points. If the election is close at all there it will be a major win for him. Also, the establishment Democrats see him as George McGovern 2.0 and are terrified of giving Donald Trump a 49 state sweep.
- fineIllregister 11y ago
  Why does Trump have an "outside" chance? He's leading in polls for most upcoming primaries.

d4rkph1b3r 11y ago

Did...you reaed what he wrote at all? Bernie sanders supports inflating assets with QE (and affectively robbing the middle class due to asset inflation).