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The author is a Young Turks reporter, so I take this accordingly. In any case, it illustrates how the left is trying to regroup. Sanders will be 79 in four years, so it seems unlikely he would be able to try another run; more likely he will try to groom a successor. It seemed like Sanders' supporters were reorganizing around Jill Stein, but her failed recount effort took some steam out of that. Some of the anti-Trump obstructionists in the Sessions hearings seem to be doing early auditions for the role of the next Obama. I am sure Obama will attempt to play a role in making that selection, and the Clintons are also likely to start grooming someone. Other thoughts on who the Democrats will try to rally around? And will they break farther left (as they seem to be) or to the center (as the DLC did after Mondale)?
1 posted on 01/18/2017 2:40:21 AM PST by Fedora
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But if Sanders decides against running in four years...

Holy Cannoli -- he'll be 79 years old!!!

2 posted on 01/18/2017 2:45:00 AM PST by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ. ~~~~ Appeasing evil is cowardice.)
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Yup, Stein had them listening and blew it with the recount thing.


4 posted on 01/18/2017 2:49:42 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("It's a war against humanity!" Donald J. Trump)
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It seemed like Sanders' supporters were reorganizing around Jill Stein, but her failed recount effort took some steam out of that.

Hey! Give da bitch credit where credit is due!

Her recount effort exposed how the 'Rat machine works in urban cesspools like Michigan.

6 posted on 01/18/2017 2:53:29 AM PST by cynwoody
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Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, US Rep. Seth Moulton of MA, Gov. Gina Raimondo of RI, and there will be a TBA wealthy (possibly Hollywood) type like Mark Cuban.


7 posted on 01/18/2017 2:54:52 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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Sanders can’t groom himself, much less anyone younger who still thinks they know everything.


8 posted on 01/18/2017 2:55:50 AM PST by mazda77
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She is an angry, strident, nasty woman.

If you are an angry Progressive who hates this country, then perhaps she has some appeal. Otherwise ... meh.


10 posted on 01/18/2017 2:56:12 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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...too many appearances with Hilda....


17 posted on 01/18/2017 3:06:43 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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21 posted on 01/18/2017 3:33:11 AM PST by Proyecto Anonimo
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Sanders has no electoral future in the Democrat party. So his actual influence is limited. If Warren, or anybody else future candidate, can play off Sanders’ ideas then they too are relevant. It’s not either/or.


23 posted on 01/18/2017 3:38:55 AM PST by Tallguy
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Bernie Sanders has become the defacto leader of the Democratic Party.

How does an INDEPENDENT have any status with an organization he doesn't belong to? Am I missing something? I thought Bernie is not even a Democrat and has an "I" behind his name in the Senate. I know he caucuses with the Rats but he left the democrat party. Why is this not even news? If a Republican did what Bernie is doing the talking point would be 24/7 "FRACTURED Republicans CANNOT HOLD THEIR PARTY TOGETHER" or some other scary headline.

24 posted on 01/18/2017 3:38:55 AM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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But if Sanders decides against running in four years, Warren—in a political climate with a jarring scarcity of true progressive leaders—

I can't name one top Dem who ISN'T a hardcore far-left Progressive. WTH?

could have a chance to climb back up the progressive ranks and possibly serve as the movement's best chance to finally take the White House.

They just had it for 8 years, and would be taking it back at the very earliest opportunity, and CNBC calls it "finally". SMH.

25 posted on 01/18/2017 3:42:22 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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Senator Elizabeth Warren. . .is a walking, talking freak show.

She will never amount to more than a row of weeds in a vast legislative garden. She is just un-American.

Democrats need to take their party back from the utopian liberal fascists, or there will no longer be a Democrat Party.
The impetus for taking back their party from theses fascists can come from the mid west.

But what do I care. Let the liberal fascists continue to control the dem party. It means 16 more years of Republican presidency.


26 posted on 01/18/2017 3:52:38 AM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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When I read stuff about Zuckerberg being mentioned as a contender I thought it fit the basic profile of somebody they’d look to as their next guru. They don’t want a traditional POTUS, they’re seeking out a guru.


27 posted on 01/18/2017 3:55:09 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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The 1/17/16 NYP OP-ED piece by F.H. Buckley (George Mason U law prof) nails the near-fatal blow Trump delivered to Democrats/progressives.

EXCERPT--- Trump’s victory was a defeat of their conceit that a progressive was above politics (party machinery's their god), in possession of spotless truth, that the arc of history bent only their way, and for such people there’s no room for compromise and no space for politics.......the progressive thought he’d only muddy himself if he treated opponents with anything more than disdain.

That’s how President Obama conducted himself in office and that’s how many Democrats see Republicans, and that’s why they’re not emotionally able to accept their defeat.

Trump showed progressives that they were self-deceived, that they weren’t in sole possession of the right and the good......and that’s a deep psychic wound.

More at http://nypost.com/2017/01/17/trumps-threat-to-the-liberal-deep-state/

30 posted on 01/18/2017 4:00:51 AM PST by Liz
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Her primary problem is that she is dumb as a post.

It prevents her from making a coherent case for or against anything on behalf of her constituents.

She has made it this far because she is a loud-mouthed shrill woman whose frequent idiocy is never analyzed by the press so the average Democrat mistakes it for wisdom, and no Republican has dared confront her since there aren’t many of them in Massachusetts.


32 posted on 01/18/2017 4:01:35 AM PST by RFEngineer
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They’ll be going with the next generation of young leftists in 2020. A Booker or a Castro or some other young pup like that. Trying for the young Clinton/Obama magic once again.


33 posted on 01/18/2017 4:02:41 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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Now that Americans have decided to ignore that natural born obstacle, why not Raoul Castro at the head of the dem ticket? Or, if we ignore the natural born thing, they could just ignore the POTUS term limit thing too, and have Obama run again.


36 posted on 01/18/2017 4:07:10 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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Maybe she could do porn? That would boost her popularity.


38 posted on 01/18/2017 4:08:16 AM PST by Catholic Canadian
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Speculative speculation to get some words on a page inorder to get a paycheck

Barack Obama is the leader of the Democrat Party


48 posted on 01/18/2017 4:21:42 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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I don’t think a white person, no matter how liberal, can currently be a “darling” of the left.


55 posted on 01/18/2017 4:38:33 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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