Voters DESPISE both Clinton & Trump...yet Sanders is *unelectable*

[Cosmic Kitten]

Clinton and Trump are both more strongly disliked than any nominee at this point in the past 10 presidential cycles.



Clinton’s average “strongly unfavorable” rating in probability sample polls from late March to late April, 37 percent, is about 5 percentage points higher than the previous high between 19803 and 2012. Trump, though, is on another planet. Trump’s average “strongly unfavorable” rating, 53 percent, is 20 percentage points higher than every candidate’s rating besides Clinton’s.

No major party nominee before Clinton or Trump had a double-digit net negative “strong favorability” rating. Clinton’s would be the lowest ever, except for Trump.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-distaste-for-both-trump-and-clinton-is-record-breaking/?ex_cid=538twitter

But according to *Very Serious People*...
Bernie Sanders is unelectable!?!

This game is RIGGED!

[Katashi_itto]

1. K&R

[hootinholler]

2. I about have a bald spot scratched into my head over that one

I can't figure it out either.

[Cosmic Kitten]

4. Isn't it obvious? Oligarchy!

[FreakinDJ]

3. Enie Meani Mieni Moe - Which of these two fools do I hate more

[Cosmic Kitten]

6. Only one has voted for War...

and is responsible for the ongoing
middle east crisis.

[Lizzie Poppet]

7. While I don't doubt Trump could equal it...

...Princess Weathervane's record of warmongering alone should prevent anyone even remotely progressive from voting for her.

[JaneyVee]

14. Bernie voted for more wars and war funding than...

Any candidate running on both sides. Womp womp.

[ViseGrip]

5. Before the campaigns began, they polled and 73% said NO Clinton or Bush!

Our party chose to ignore it, and work together with the media in the Bernie Blackout. Earned media counts have proven this correct.

Sanders owes them NOTHING!

It's rigged indeed. The game has changed. Sanders knows this.

[Cosmic Kitten]

8. When neo-cons and conservatives endorse a candidate...

that candidate can't be taken seriously
as a *democrat*

[Trust Buster]

9. Sanders is unelectable by any measure.

By virtue of the fact that he couldn't even win his own Party's nomination (and I use that term loosely), makes him unelectable. That's just common sense.

[Tarc]

10. Lol, so what does it say about Sanders if he cannot beat the allegedly "disliked" Clinton?

[Cosmic Kitten]

12. It *says* the process is CORRUPT

This primary has been a debacle from the jump.

It would be pathetic to pretend
that the DNC, the Media, and
assorted cronies have been even handed.

FFS, when the Koch oligarchs tepidly endorsed
Clinton it is OBVIOUS to anyone with
two working brain cells whats going on.

Washington (CNN)Oil tycoon and conservative mega-donor Charles Koch had kind words for both Bill and Hillary Clinton in an interview Sunday, saying there was an outside chance he could support her in November.

"We would have to believe her actions would be quite different than her rhetoric. Let me put it that way," he said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday. "But on some of the Republican candidates we would -- before we could support them, we'd have to believe their actions will be quite different than the rhetoric we've heard so far."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/24/politics/charles-koch-hillary-clinton-2016/

[Tarc]

13. Or the simpler and saner answer would be that more voters prefer Hillary's vision

and reject Sanders'.

It's a shame that your day isn't complete until 10 conspiracies are uncovered before breakfast.

[Cosmic Kitten]

17. Hillarys vision.. of bombing Iran? OR...

Destroying Syria?

or

maintaining wealth inequality?

or

rejection of single payer healthcare?

or

What? Her fight to keep wage slavery?
What is her vision people prefer?

She has NOTHING but a bunch of disjointed
policy statements that essentially maintain
the current status quo.

Her campaign is one big middle finger to 99%
of the public.

[Tarc]

23. "Her campaign is one big middle finger to 99% of the public"

Yea nearly 60% of the vote has gone her way thus far, so I'd say that not many share your perception of events at hand.

Btw, any particular reason you post in some sort of neo-haiku format? Reading these things is...interesting.

[uponit7771]

29. YEAH! Since Sanders meet with the pope and a bird landed on his podium there's no way he could lose!

:rolleyes:@PeopleWhoShyAwayFromReality

[apcalc]

11. He 'd be despised before long.

[JaneyVee]

15. And yet, Hillary has millions of more votes than Don and Bern.

[Cosmic Kitten]

20. Kinda like how republican vote AGAINST their self-interest!

Interesting how low information voters
always seem to vote against themselves!

Millions of them!

[NCTraveler]

35. I'm excited I get to vote for Clinton twice and I am very informed on the issues. nt.

[Buns_of_Fire]

16. Yay! We don't suck as bad!

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[Cosmic Kitten]

22. LOL, "we don't suck as bad"...nice

[JoePhilly]

18. The drama around here is endless.

[pdsimdars]

19. Let's call it pretzel brain.

[Cosmic Kitten]

21. I LOVE that Birdie!

What an excellent icon!

[DookDook]

24. You are free citizen!

You are free; to do as we tell you.

Bill Hicks had it right.

[Nonhlanhla]

25. Hey look, everybody loved Dukakis. nt.

[Thinkingabout]

26. Are you talking about the more than three million more votes for Hillary than

Voted for Sanders? Doesn't work that way.

[Beacool]

37. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

This board has gone batshit crazy since it has become evident that sanders will not be the nominee.

I think I've read less anti-Hillary nonsense on a RW site.

Pathetic and funny at the same time.

[Thinkingabout]

38. Sure isn't going to change the facts, it's the math.

[Triana]

27. "unelectable" = "can't be bought/controlled by the Owners" - Trillary/Hump are both . .

. . .either Owned (Clinton) or OwnERS (Clinton and Trump)

The whole 'We never met a big corpat who would kill your Mother and Theirs for profit whom we didn't LOVE" problem is...well....a Problem.

And as we all know, only an expert can deal with the problem:

[polly7]

30. Great video, Triana. +1,000,000. nt.

[Thinkingabout]

39. I can point to gun bills in which Sanders voted the way NRA wanted, now can you point to a bill

Where Hillary voted after donations was made.

[uponit7771]

28. The pic at the bottom is just wrong !! lol

[colsohlibgal]

31. Rigged Big Time

Big money, Wall Street, the Military Industrial Complex, on and on, yada yada, the oligarchs win either way.

We should have non profit health care. We should have a progressive tax system. We should slash the Hell out of our Defense budget.

Back to taxes....loopholes should go as well....no massive corporation should be able to file out of some tropical Island with one employee there to answer one phone just in case.

Would Hillary make any kind of effort to do any of this? No.....but since she would be running against a dangerous crackpot she would be the best choice.....and that is the frustrating thing for millions of us.

How long, how long, till real change takes place to level the playing field as much as possible? Hint...no real chance till we get public financing of elections to do away with this corrupt system of legalized bribery.

[Thinkingabout]

40. Like continuing to fund the F-35 program, way over budget with massive

Cost over runs and Sanders wants to continue funding Lockheed Martin. Just think how far that trillion dollars could gone on paying down college tuitions.

[felix_numinous]

32. This is what happens when M$$$M programming

collides with reality, don't waste your brain on trying to combine the two.

[NCTraveler]

33. I don't despise Clinton.

And Sanders couldn't win the primary. That isn't some cheap shot or anything like that. When your campaign manager states soon after Iowa that he didn't know the rules in Iowa, there might be a problem other than "This game is RIGGED!"

[Beacool]

34. Well, someone likes her because she's winning.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

36. So 6 out of 8 times the candidate with higher unfavorability won?

7 out of 8 if you consider Gore won the popular vote in 2000.

That pretty much nullifies the unfavorability factor as decisive to me. (Hopefully it doesn't support Trump, as he's far more unfavorable than both Clinton and Sanders.)