Americans MORE Optimistic About Sanders’ Presidency Than About Any Other Candidate

[Segami]

"..While conservatives are doing their best to scare Americans away from electing a “democratic socialist” named Bernie Sanders, voters are apparently less nervous about Sanders than they are about the other candidates running for president. America’s optimism for Sanders is decidedly cautious. However, voters are far less pessimistic about Sanders’ ability to run the country than they are about Donald Trump or Jeb Bush’s ability to lead the nation..."

An unprecedented number of major party candidates are running for president. Yet, Americans remain pessimistic about the entire presidential field going into 2016. An NBC/WSJ poll asked Americans about individual candidates and whether they were optimistic/satisfied or uncertain/pessimistic about the ability of each individual candidate to do a good job as president. With every candidate, more voters were uncertain or pessimistic than optimistic or satisfied, but of the announced candidates, voters were less pessimistic about Bernie Sanders than any of the other candidates. 43 percent of American voters expressed optimism about a Sanders’ presidency, compared to 50 percent who did not. His net (-7) optimism to pessimism score was better than Hillary Clinton’s (-13) or any of the Republican candidates.


Voters were much more optimistic about both Sanders and Clinton than they were about GOP front-runner Donald Trump (-35), Texas Senator Ted Cruz (-32), former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (-26) or former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina (-24). The only Republicans that voters were not deeply pessimistic about were Florida Senator Marco Rubio (-13) and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson (-8). Joe Biden, who announced on Wednesday that he was not seeking the presidency, was the one potential candidate who generated slightly more optimism than Sanders. 46 percent of American voters would have viewed a Biden presidency optimistically compared to 52 percent who would have been uncertain or pessimistic. Americans have become so pessimistic that even the best candidates only inspire tepid optimism. Nevertheless, it is clear that Sanders, and to a slightly lesser extent, Clinton, give Americans more cause for optimism than most of the GOP candidates.


http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/21/americans-optimistic-sanders-presidency-candidates.html

[Beausoir]

1. Yes, and Donald Trump is about to get the GOP nomination...

Same lunacy....different party.

[Ned_Devine]

7. Same lunacy?

How so?

[MissDeeds]

8. Crickets

Not surprising.

[Ned_Devine]

14. Of course

I've been on this site since 2004 and tend to stay on the outside of these skirmishes. But when I read some of the responses from people here, I sometimes feel I need to respond. I mean, calling fellow DU'ers lunatics because we finally have a candidate we can believe in? That just seems foolish. Don't get me wrong; I think it's crazy that people could support Hillary despite her conservative past, and I felt the same way in 2007-08, but I'm not going to name call.

[Fearless]

10. Wow. Just wow.

Reality check, the people of this country deserve a lot more than what they receive. A LOT MORE. This country deserves Bernie, but perhaps you don't.

[stillwaiting]

13. You should really reconsider your sig line. nt

[pinebox]

15. Ya idiocy

because this shit is just too frickin' nuts!

[world wide wally]

2. Good news!

[JRLeft]

3. He offers real change instead lip service.

[marym625]

4. K&R

[DJ13]

5. "..While conservatives (And 3rd wayer Democons & MSM) are doing their best to scare Americans ......

.....away from electing a “democratic socialist"........"

The people are pissed off, to the point they may see a democratic socialist as the only way out and ignore the media as the primaries approach.

One things for sure, they KNOW another Clinton is just more of the same, and that hasnt done anything for them in the past.

[Segami]

6. You definitely have a point....

So far, almost every talkin-head pundit who made predictions (including Biden's entry) has been wrong.

They have been saying from day one that Trump is nothing more than a clown candidate (which he is) and won't last the coming month. He lasted every month and has whittled down JEB! to single digits. What are they saying now? He could be their presidential nominee...lol!

Bernie received (and continues to receive) the same such predictions.......

People are pissed off and might be ready to breakaway from the establishment strangle hold this coming election...

[SoapBox]

9. K & R!

[Duckfan]

11. Hopefully the repukes talking point of Bernie offering "free stuff" will fade away.

That's because people are excited about this campaign. It amazes me totally. And I hope it keeps going.

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. People recognize a genuinely, ETHICAL and HONEST politician when they see/meet one.

Everyone here knows Bernie is the ONLY Ethical and Honest politician running. Whether you want to admit it or not, you know in your heart it's TRUE.

[Uncle Joe]

16. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Segami.

[thesquanderer]

17. And the 50% who "did not" views a BS presidency optimistically...

...would also include those who aren't sufficiently familiar with him, who would have answered "uncertain." So he has a lot of room to increase that number. Whereas HRC's figure will be much harder to improve, because almost the entire population is already very familiar with her, and most probably have a pretty well formed opinion.