Bernie Sanders Leads TIME’s Person of the Year Poll

[Katashi_itto]

With eleven days left to go before TIME’s 2015 Person of the Year poll come to a close, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the upstart candidate for president, holds a wide lead over global notables among TIME readers even as he trails Hillary Clinton in voter polls and fights a long-shot battle for the Democratic nomination.

The self-described democratic socialist currently leads Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist, with 11% in the TIME reader poll compared with her 5%. Sanders also leads Pope Francis and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama, and is far ahead of entertainers like Adele (2%) and Jennifer Lawrence (1.7%). In voter polls against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, Sanders is consistently losing by about 20 percentage points in national polls. In the Person of the Year poll, Hillary Clinton has earned 1.3 % of the vote, trailing the likes of Vladimir Putin and Francois Hollande as well as Nicki Minaj and Amy Schumer.

http://time.com/4124110/bernie-sanders-leads-times-person-of-the-year-poll/?xid=fbshare

[sabrina 1]

1. Bernie leads every people poll! Ssshhh, people are not 'scientific'! Lol!

[Metric System]

3. I can't believe you're still acting so clueless about scientific polls. Take a stats class.

[Avalux]

17. I can't believe you're acting so clueless about real people. Pay attention. n/t

[Godhumor]

5. Wow n/t

[CountAllVotes]

2. A kick for the pope Francis ...

and another for that socialist dude named BERNIE SANDERS!

SANDERS 2016! Feel the BERN!!!

[BuelahWitch]

4. Malala is in 2nd place

I would be happy to see Bernie OR her as Person of the Year.

[rhett o rick]

6. Didn't Edward Snowden lead one year but was passed over for someone else? nm

[onenote]

21. The folks winning the readers' poll aren't "passed over"

The readers' poll has zero to do with the magazine's choice of the POTY. In the history of the readers' poll (which dates back to 1998), I don't believe the poll winner has ever been the magazine's choice. In fact, given who has won the poll in the past, it's not necessarily an honor to win it. Among the poll winners: wrestler Mike Foley, Kim Jun Il, mahmoud ahmadinejad. Hell, Barack Obama "lost" the readers' poll to Julian Assange in 2012.

[rhett o rick]

22. Good point. What the hell do the readers know anywayz. It isn't democratic. nm

[onenote]

23. why should it be? It's not a popularity contest.

[rhett o rick]

24. Exactly, since the authoritarian corporations run everything, it's only right that they get to

select. Corp-America uber alles.

[onenote]

25. Silly post.

You want to pick a person of the year, go ahead. And if you want to publish a magazine, go ahead.

Newspapers and magazines aren't "democracies" that make editorial decisions based on the vote of the people. Heaven help us if they ever are.

[rhett o rick]

29. Agree, democracy is too messy. nm

[JaneyVee]

7. Why? Cult of personality.

[BootinUp]

8. It would be absurd

for Bernie to named Person of the Year at this point, simply absurd.

[leftofcool]

9. He hasn't done anything to earn it.

[JaneyVee]

11. Bernie fans gonna hijack a poll and deny Malala the honor.

She's accomplished more this week alone than Bernie has in his life.

[NurseJackie]

20. Is it decided by click-counts? Or by an editorial group of individuals?

[beam me up scottie]

10. Oh please.

If Hillary was a contender y'all would be shouting from the rooftops.

This is just sour grapes from the 'Hillary was voted the most popular woman in the world eleventeen times!' fan club.

[JaneyVee]

12. You were saying?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=835836

[beam me up scottie]

13. Because you know she won't win.

Like I said, if she was in the running the jeers would immediately turn to cheers.

[JaneyVee]

14. I promise you I wouldn't...

Neither of them have done anything to be considered Person of the Year, and it's weird to even nominate a politician. And I would feel awful if Malala lost to a person who most definitely doesn't deserve it.

[NCTraveler]

31. Clinton supporter here. I voted refugees. It would be a serious flaw of ones character to vote....

Clinton or Sanders. What do we know that you don't? "Sanders Beats Refugees" "Clinton Beats Refugees" doesn't sound as good as you think it's going to.

[beam me up scottie]

32. Lol! Bernie supporters are misogynists, racists AND they hate refugees.

You might want to switch to digital format, no one appreciates a broken record.

Oh wait, I forgot I was talking to a Hillary supporter.

My bad.

Whinging about Bernie's supporters is all you do.

[Eric J in MN]

18. What do you mean by "cult of personality"? NT

NT

[brentspeak]

15. I imagine Hillary's PR firms are hastily creating thousands of fake Twitter accounts

(on top of their already thousands of previously-made fake Twitter and FB accounts) to try to counteract in order to vote, but will run out of time.

Prediction: Hillary PR HQ will direct their paid propagandists to claim that Bernie supporters are "hijacking" Malala.

[reformist2]

16. It would be kind of hilarious if the Time editorial board chose Hillary as their person of the year.

They wouldn't dare - would they?? lol

[demwing]

19. It would be a blessing

can you imagine what Bernie could do with that story?

"People's Choice" supplanted by "Corporate Decree"

[mythology]

28. Neither will win

It's about who is the most newsworthy person or group.

It will probably be ISIS.

[LonePirate]

26. While I love Bernie, he has had less impact on the overall campaign than Trump.

Significance heavily influences the actual selection and Trump bests Bernie in the overall impact on the campaign so far.

That being said, I think either Putin or a collection of people such as global climate scientists will win the title this year. If Bernie can win the presidency next year, then he will be a runaway winner. For now, he can take comfort in being the people's winner in this poll.

[ismnotwasm]

27. Excellent

Good for Senator Sanders!

[NCTraveler]

30. The headlines will write themselves.

"Sanders Beats Refugee's!!!"

I can't believe someone would vote for Sanders or Clinton over many of the other options. No offense to anyone who did just that, but it truly shows they are morally bankrupt. lol.

[book_worm]

33. If a politician is going to be "Person of the Year" I believe it would be Trump

because for good or bad (in my book bad) he has done more to influence the race this year than anybody and he dominates the headlines with regards to politics. Remember Hitler was once Time's "Man of the Year".