Bernie Sanders
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The results from the New Hampshire primary are in—mercifully quickly—showing Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders victorious with 26% of the vote, ahead of former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg with 24%. However, it was third place Amy Klobuchar, with 20%, who seemed to draw the greatest media buzz. The Minnesota senator has received a lot of press attention of late—almost all of it positive.
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CNN’s election panel (2/12/20) heaped praise upon her; former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe described her performance as “spectacular,” while Democratic strategist David Axelrod claimed she “has a great personal touch.” Vox’s Matthew Yglesias (2/11/20) called her “the thinking moderate Democrat’s electability candidate.” The Week (2/10/20) said she had “clearly touched a chord” with the electorate, and NPR (2/12/20) claimed her third place was a victory that “shocked the establishment.”
The Christian Science Monitor (2/11/20) suggested her rise was a win for Midwestern values and pragmatism, portraying her as the “kinder,” “forgiving” and “empathetic” candidate. This might […]
I like Bernie and support all his positions but speaking as an old person he is too old and too polarizing. Also he lacks experience in managing/governing that will be critical for the next president to rebuild the massive destruction that lord trump leaves, yes leaves, behind.
I have thought for sometime that Bloomberg should be the next president. Yes another very rich guy who is buying his way into office. These are times we live in and he has a track record of learning and growing in office. And to me it is clear based on the current Democratic candidates he is the only one that can defeat the mad king. Nothing sticks to trump and his poll numbers are up since the “acquittal”. Big money pours in like a river and vengeance is mine says his lordship.
Bernie and Bloomberg are the same age.
Bloomberg paid dearly for every vote he got in the last NYC race and frankly across this nation most of us are not in the market to sell our vote to defeat Trump.
Bernie has had the same policies for his life, the same principles for his life and he has the ground forces to win this election.
This not Hollywood and we are voting with Brad Pitt running, I don’t care if Bernie is short with fools.
Well LM I don’t quite get your last sentence about us fools being short on Bernie. At this point I will vote for anyone but trump so whomever is the candidate has my vote. I’m not so sure, as in the last election, that will be true for many Democratic voters. We can not let this mad, corrupt, hateful man stay in office for another term. At the top of my bucket list is the wish to live long enough to never hear or see the name trump ever again, thank you God!
You should read DragonSlayer that I sent you over a week ago. Like most, we like Bernie personally. But to have him as the Candidate is a high risk proposition. I know several Republicans who would switch votes but only if it is for a moderate. Both Bernie and Warren scare them. Enough that in 2021 the Democrats are likely to again be known as “sore losers.” BTW A mutual friend of ours who is a renowned MD say the heart attack thing alone should disqualify.
Bernie has not been kept out of the debates or hampered in any way because of his heart attack. My father had a heart attack and lasted another 12 years and was very active after having it. My mother also had a heart attack but kept going strong for another 10 years after that. Bernie has the BEST quality managing/governing experience of any of the debaters on the Democratic stage! Will and John, I must disagree with you wholeheartedly. Not to mention that if Bernie picks Liz Warren as a vice-president before the national votes take place, they will together beat Trump and Pence with no problem.
I support Elizabeth Warren – for the very same reasons you support Sanders. Except Warren doesn’t carry the negative baggage that Sanders does. And she is more progressive than Klobuchar.
But let’s get logical, guys. In the first 44 presidential elections it was a man who lost to the victor. That’s quite a losing streak. In the last presidential election Sanders lost to a woman in the primary – the same woman who received nearly 3,000,000,000 more votes than Trump.
The clearly logical message calls for a female Democratic nominee. And Elizabeth Warren is right there with a brilliant mind, a great heart, and the proven competence to bring reality to her well-thought policies. Right there. In your face.
Let’s be logical. Let’s WIN WITH WARREN.
Beg my pardon Brenda, but there are not 3 Billion voters in the USA, you put too many 0’s in your figure. Besides that, the DNC is who decided that Clinton was their choice; if they let the voters choose, Sanders would have become president.