Posted on 06/25/2015 2:38:09 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
According to PBS, Bernie Sanders is "gaining against Clinton in early polls." Salon's Bill Curry believes "Hillary Clinton is going lose," primarily because millions of voters longing for a truly progressive candidate will nominate Sanders. POLITICO explained recently that Early-state polls hint at a Bernie Sanders surge, a headline that was unthinkable only several months earlier. Yahoo's Meredith Shiner calls Sanders a "progressive social media star and pragmatic legislator" and states that "Sanders also has a much more substantial legislative history" than any GOP challenger. In Iowa, 1,100 people packed a gym to hear Bernie Sanders speak in May.
In contrast, Team Hillary had an intimate business roundtable discussion with five "ordinary" Iowans. The only problem was that according to The Washington Post, "All five were selected to attend her events." In fact, Clinton's "staged roundtables" were attended by a total of 13 Iowans, picked by either the campaign or the host.
Therefore, a paradigm shift has taken place. Many Iowans drove 50 miles to hear Sanders speak in Des Moines, primarily because Bernie Sanders has surpassed Clinton as the ideal choice for Democratic nominee. Regarding electability, Sanders has also surpassed Clinton as the realistic choice for Democratic nominee in the minds of many voters, because as one Salon piece illustrates, Hillary "just doesn't get it."
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I’m swooning for Bernie-the-Commie!
ACORN will be in overtime hyper-drive to get out the dead votes to insure Obamatollah’s CommieCare is not reversed.
Why not. The rat party has turned into the pinko party a long time ago. Might as well go full on to communism. Hell I don’t think anyone would notice.
How does Warren do well with that fake Indian stuff hanging over her head?
It’s hard for Communists to out-Communist each other.
Would Mondale, for example, ever have been nominated?
Bill Clinton didn't win the hearts and minds Democrats I knew in the 1992 primaries, but Democrats figured he'd be a winner, so they nominated him.
There's a category of party favorite or party darling -- the guy party stalwarts love who never manages to get elected, maybe not even nominated. That could be Cuomo or Moynihan or Bill Bradley or Adlai Stevenson. Or Bernie Sanders.
I honestly don’t think that issue would be a problem for Warren. Hillary is so roundly disliked by the hard left in the Democratic Party, I think they’d over look Warren’s chicanery at Harvard. Especially if that’s her only big skeleton. The left will support Hillary in a general, but I believe they’d dump her like a bad habit if a viable alternative presented itself.
Just my gut feeling, of course.
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