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In reply to the discussion: How can we get a progressive presidential candidate at the top of Democratic ticket in 2016? [View all]brooklynite
(94,502 posts)32. Perhaps so, but politics operates in a realistic world...
...The States who go first won't give up their prime status, and the Candidates won't challenge them. SO that's the structure your candidate will have to campaign in.
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How can we get a progressive presidential candidate at the top of Democratic ticket in 2016? [View all]
yurbud
Aug 2013
OP
No, they don't. And this is a lie that needs to be slapped down hard, now.
woo me with science
Aug 2013
#79
Agreed. This is the scenario most likely to produce a liberal candidate for President. n/t
Laelth
Aug 2013
#128
In other words, its unfair if more people vote for a Candidate you don't like...
brooklynite
Aug 2013
#175
Perhaps the bad ideas are "Super Tuesday," and Iowa, New Hampshire, and S. Carolina going first...
villager
Aug 2013
#27
I have an idea based on what people say they're doing...which so far is nothing
brooklynite
Aug 2013
#89
Well, it would help to start with candidates who aren't inherenly unlikeable.
winter is coming
Aug 2013
#92
Beyond money, which of course is huge, we would have to dig out the entrenched
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2013
#21
I'm sure it is the same. The moderates win because the voters in the precincts vote for them.
stevenleser
Aug 2013
#97
History's shown that the crash and burn could set the stage for a fascist dictatorship.
pnwmom
Aug 2013
#31
we may never undo the damages to America, pls don't roll over and give up all you have left, 1 vote.
Sunlei
Aug 2013
#46
And think of how many of Nixon's policies turned out to be to the left of Obama's!
villager
Aug 2013
#28
Except, not in the sense of economic or environmental policies, to take but two....
villager
Aug 2013
#61
Oh really? There isn't a stark difference between Obama's views on global warming
pnwmom
Aug 2013
#68
He had lots of good "views" on the campaign trail. I'm speaking about actual policies.
villager
Aug 2013
#76
On environmental issues? Like de-listing the wolf, helping cover up the BP oil spill damage?
villager
Aug 2013
#93
What is true is that everything is skewed to the right. Everything. Even/especially "Democrats."
villager
Aug 2013
#98
the fall of the Soviet Union let the wealthy draw out the long knives on the rest of us
yurbud
Aug 2013
#126
I we continue to let the 1% corporatist elites move us towards fascism, you may be right...
cascadiance
Aug 2013
#88
No, my solution at this point is Hilary Clinton. No Rethug has a chance against her. n/t
pnwmom
Aug 2013
#51
Lou Dobbs will have another field day with her support of H-1B "indentured servant" program...
cascadiance
Aug 2013
#71
Chris Christie, the bully, would self-destruct against Hillary. Women would loathe him,
pnwmom
Aug 2013
#72
Yeah, that is a really bad look for Christie. His M.O. is to be super aggressive and nasty
stevenleser
Aug 2013
#103
I've seen him treat women like that at town meetings. I don't think he can stop himself.
pnwmom
Aug 2013
#109
We need to vet more heavily those "electable" candidates that become "progressive" (J. Edwards)
cascadiance
Aug 2013
#30
Do you seriously believe that if Edwards wasn't on the ballot, Kucinich would have been competitive?
brooklynite
Aug 2013
#34
I know many that were voting for Edwards specifically because he was talking about issues...
cascadiance
Aug 2013
#77
He dropped out before Super Tuesday because he was polling a distant last in all Super Tuesday
stevenleser
Aug 2013
#102
Iowa was several weeks before super Tuesday. Kucinich withdrew a week before Edwards
stevenleser
Aug 2013
#123
Edwards WAS campaigning to the left of both Clinton and Obama in the primaries...
cascadiance
Aug 2013
#58
many liberals knew Edwards was a Phony so didn't support him , i am a liberal and i would not
JI7
Aug 2013
#161
We need to find those issues we have common ground with most Americans on...
cascadiance
Aug 2013
#42
Especially in those districts that Republicans have redistricted to be MORE progressive!
cascadiance
Aug 2013
#53
Do you have a good example of when a "true progressive" has won the general election?
cbdo2007
Aug 2013
#119
Just because they don't do everything on YOUR list doesn't mean they've ignored you. lol
cbdo2007
Aug 2013
#173
According to the latest Gallup Poll, 83% of liberal Democrats approve of President Obama.
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#104
Actually that's exactly what we need to do. An upset of Clinton in either of
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#113
That's the question, and if it's impossible the party isn't worth working for.
polichick
Aug 2013
#108
and even if we could match the donations, we could never match the back end deal when they leave
yurbud
Aug 2013
#140
How can we get a candidate that believes what they say to get elected? and will keep their word?
Coyotl
Aug 2013
#131
I wonder how an election would go if the rich just did away with their proxies and ran themselves
yurbud
Aug 2013
#152
Not sure if we can in 2016, but we sure as hell can make a very interesting Primary cycle in which
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#155
Clearly, Dennis Kucinich....(if you're going to engage in fantasy, take it all the way)
brooklynite
Aug 2013
#170