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Can Senator Sanders win the democratic nomination for president?

Can Senator Sanders win the democratic nomination for president?


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He has a chance but he won't be the candidate on the ballot in 2015.
 
can he win the nomination?... no... he can't

Vegas has 100/1 odds on him.... they have 75/1 on Rick Perry.


think about that for a minute.....
 
I think people are really tired of Hillary....He might not win but he could take a big part of her vote away.
The only place where he could take votes away from Hillary is in the primary elections. There is no way he could conceivably become the nominee of the Democratic Party.
 
Clinton honest, you have to joking. If Sanders takes even one vote from her in the primary..........It will be worth it.

Why? Those people will end up voting for Clinton in the GE. It gains you nothing. Sorry.
 
I'm torn whether Sanders helps Hillary, by making her appear to be a moderate Democrat, or hurts her by forcing her to move leftward without capturing the energy of the base.
 
Hillary could crash and burn just as she did in 08, but it's hers to lose given current evidence.

Not sure she crashed and burned as much as obama literally ignited.
 
Why? Those people will end up voting for Clinton in the GE. It gains you nothing. Sorry.

Not necessarily. A depressed base = fewer votes.
 
I'm torn whether Sanders helps Hillary, by making her appear to be a moderate Democrat, or hurts her by forcing her to move leftward without capturing the energy of the base.

I do not see Clinton moving leftward, no matter who else runs for the democratic nomination. She is too well defined now for the most part and any such move would look phoney anyway. Most likely, she does not need to move leftward, and especially not because of Sanders who likely will get a small portion of the vote.
 
I don't see anybody coming close to Hillary. Though, it would be nice to see at least a little competition there. I enjoy Primary debates. Always the best gaffes.
 
I do not see Clinton moving leftward, no matter who else runs for the democratic nomination. She is too well defined now for the most part and any such move would look phoney anyway. Most likely, she does not need to move leftward, and especially not because of Sanders who likely will get a small portion of the vote.

:raises eyebrow: did you miss the paeans to Warren, the decision to emphasize income inequality, the barfed-up attempt to produce a soundbite against "trickle down economics", etc? She's also done the full 180 from her couple-of-years-ago position on marriage, and is pushing the SSM message pretty solidly. Hillary's been trying to secure her left flank for a couple of months now.
 
I don't see anybody coming close to Hillary. Though, it would be nice to see at least a little competition there. I enjoy Primary debates. Always the best gaffes.

Nah. There have only been three gaffe's in primary debate history:

1. Obama denouncing Hillary's individual health insurance mandate as too punitive
2. um.....Ron Paul fan hollering "let him die"....
3. Um..... um..... uh......
 
:raises eyebrow: did you miss the paeans to Warren, the decision to emphasize income inequality, the barfed-up attempt to produce a soundbite against "trickle down economics", etc? She's also done the full 180 from her couple-of-years-ago position on marriage, and is pushing the SSM message pretty solidly. Hillary's been trying to secure her left flank for a couple of months now.

Warren is unlikely to be a serious challenge, and while income inequality is more of a new framing of an issue, like the stance on trickle down economics, has been part of her stance for pretty much ever. Her position on SSM, I do not know why or even if she really changed it.
 
Unless Democrats can pull a big one over the rest of us and somehow convince us he's just a liberal, no.

Of course he can't win it. However, I'm also being snarky toward the Warren wing calling anyone moderate a conservative and anyone liberal a moderate. ;)
 
I don't think this country is ready for a socialist for president but he sure could take some votes away from ther "Iron Maiden." Hillary

... I thought we weren't going to last 4 years of Obama?
 
... I thought we weren't going to last 4 years of Obama?

That is kinda a moot point since McCain is going to beat Obama in a landslide. Romney too come to think of it...
 
no but I think they will work together ....Hillary may ask him to be vice president. they will debate issues to the people
 
Not necessarily. A depressed base = fewer votes.

Perhaps true with the right-wing....but sorry....left-wing voters are going to cast their votes for Hillary in the GE because we recognize that we are never going to get much more than a left-leaning moderate. That is just political reality...something that the right-wing doesn't really understand as well. I think moderate Republican voters get it, but the radical right-wing wants to push the party further to the right which truly does end up losing voters.
 
Perhaps true with the right-wing....but sorry....left-wing voters are going to cast their votes for Hillary in the GE because we recognize that we are never going to get much more than a left-leaning moderate. That is just political reality...something that the right-wing doesn't really understand as well. I think moderate Republican voters get it, but the radical right-wing wants to push the party further to the right which truly does end up losing voters.
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My heart says yes but my head says no.

He has blown up all over social media far more than Hilary has, however. People I didn't even know were interested in politics have been bringing him up. I think he'll give Hilary a closer run for her money than people expect.
 
Since Sanders is an Independent, not a democrat, he's not likely to be the democratic candidate. If he runs as an Independent, I'd sure take a look at him, but his chances of winning would be slim.
 
No, I do not think he has a chance to get a nomination that has already been negotiated, however
he can certainly bring forth discussion on all the issues that Big Money does not want in the Media.
He's a Democratic Socialist and that translates to somenone looking out for the interests of the
people, not the CORPORATIONS. A friggin' breath of fresh, uncorrupted air stepping into a steaming
cauldron of pig crap.

Lol !!

How does Socialism look out for the interest of the people ? By destroying economies ?

Mismanaging what were once private run industries into bankruptcy ?

By running up massive amounts of unsustainable debt and refusing to pay back creditors ?

Bernie Sanders ideas are nothing new and its hard to believe people in this day and age buy into his rhetoric.

His policies would pull the plug on a American economy thats already on life support.
 
no but I think they will work together ....Hillary may ask him to be vice president. they will debate issues to the people

Oh PLEASE ask Bernie Sanders isto be Vice President Hillary.

Pleeaase !! Imagine, a vive President who's dumber than Joe Biden.
 
what do you think? Does Sanders have a chance?

Sanders is widely liked in Vermont, but he's not National Primary material. Sorry, Bernie. I love ya, but it ain't gonna happen.

Oh PLEASE ask Bernie Sanders isto be Vice President Hillary.

Pleeaase !! Imagine, a vive President who's dumber than Joe Biden.

Bernie is many things. Dumb isn't one of them.
 
Lol !!

How does Socialism look out for the interest of the people ? By destroying economies ?

Mismanaging what were once private run industries into bankruptcy ?

By running up massive amounts of unsustainable debt and refusing to pay back creditors ?

Bernie Sanders ideas are nothing new and its hard to believe people in this day and age buy into his rhetoric.

His policies would pull the plug on a American economy thats already on life support.

Lessee now. The USA has saved from bankruptcy the auto industry, the banking industry, the steel
industry, the home-building industry, and etc. That running up massive amounts of unsustainable
debt sounds pretty familiar and pretty current ever since ol' GWBush nearly bankrupted the Nation.
How is it you blame this crap on Bernie? He could not be worse economically compared to the morons
we have suffered.
 
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