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In reply to the discussion: Who more "progressive" do you want nominated, then explain just how he/she gets 270 electoral votes. [View all]libtodeath
(2,888 posts)24. Pick any name
Yes I know President Obama will be our nominee but the answer to the question is anyone that actually ran as a progressive.
Someone that got in the middle of OWS and said I am here to represent you and not the big money.
Take the mantle of righteous outrage and wear it proudly by telling people that real change will only come if they vote and in massive numbers.
Seaze the anger of the population and tell them their vote means no more of the corporate interests being the only seat at the table but the people will be the ones cared about.
The same goes for every Rep and Senate race,it would be a landslide of epic proportions no matter how much the cons and their corporate masters try to steal it.
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Who more "progressive" do you want nominated, then explain just how he/she gets 270 electoral votes. [View all]
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
OP
I'd bet they don't pull it Left. Extortion is recognized by oppo, which uses the weakening effect of
patrice
Dec 2011
#115
Those who think that are hyperbolic non-realists who'd waste votes on Nader. Nuff said.
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
#57
Right, and we all know how valid conventional wisdom is: e.g. Invasion & Occupation of Iraq; Deregul
patrice
Dec 2011
#116
OK, please explain exactly how Dennis Kucinich could win. (I think you need to find the planet.)
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
#56
Can you please name me a Democrat that Fox would not call an extreme leftist?
Bjorn Against
Dec 2011
#97
fact is it matters what fox says. even more so it matters what RW radio says to 50 mil a week
certainot
Dec 2011
#134
it's not a matter of winning their support. we let them decide where the center is and how the
certainot
Dec 2011
#142
Yes I am willing to take a few hits if we can turn that into progress.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2011
#12
I'm sure most people are so disgusted with both parties that they don't bother to vote.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2011
#17
I don't know whether that would have happened under a Gore or Kerry Administration
MNBrewer
Dec 2011
#159
Then they have no need to bitch a single syllable. And they can go back to the sandbox and play.
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
#60
Does "few hits" include people suffering & dying from lack of appropriate health care,
patrice
Dec 2011
#117
yes exactly. I am sick and tired of getting more of the same and being told I should be happy
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2011
#45
So? All of us have lists of things that we do, despite being "sick and tired" of them.
BzaDem
Dec 2011
#81
yes I do - did you have a point, or are you just making thinly veiled threats?
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2011
#14
The Goldwater splinterization was precisely what enabled Democrats to pass the great society.
BzaDem
Dec 2011
#75
And it won't even necessarily do that! It REALLY could drive them in the opposite direction from
patrice
Dec 2011
#118
what he's saying is true after Obama's next 4 years: who will secure the D win then? It is an open
StarsInHerHair
Dec 2011
#143
at least be honest. You made a threat. And now you are making another one.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2011
#52
yeah these supporters have gone way over the edge now alerting on threads that do not deserve it
StarsInHerHair
Dec 2011
#144
"... don't we?" Oh come on, almost no one posts under his/her real name around here, who knows
patrice
Dec 2011
#123
So have you and yours. You have established and full throatedly supported a death spiral
TheKentuckian
Dec 2011
#72
They have no answer for you. They'd rather froth at the mouth than deal with reality.
MjolnirTime
Dec 2011
#5
It's not a broad brush. It applies to a very small, very vocal group of Obama deriders.
MjolnirTime
Dec 2011
#7
Sure, there are plenty of non-socialist liberals. But most of them support Obama for re-election.
BzaDem
Dec 2011
#78
You've read DU wrong. People here accept he will be the nominee, they just wish he was more liberal
bettyellen
Dec 2011
#8
You can "wish" for it to rain ham sandwiches too. Someone "more liberal" CAN NOT WIN THE ELECTION.
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
#55
your opinions amuse me. But your angry tone make me hope you're not out there stumpimg.
bettyellen
Dec 2011
#61
I think the saddest thing is that we DID elect a someone more liberal. Then he showed his true
aka-chmeee
Dec 2011
#80
I cannot imagine how anyone could have taken candidate Obama for anything like a Liberal.
patrice
Dec 2011
#120
We could always make the claim that he is actually MORE Liberal than how he presented himself, with
patrice
Dec 2011
#131
Do you think not knowing about the Derivative Crash of '08 might have had an effect upon
patrice
Dec 2011
#121
Tell me what he was supposed to do about what he DIDN'T KNOW about that crash.
patrice
Dec 2011
#154
So do that and Utah, Idaho, Alabama, Texas, and Mississippi are going to turn bright blue? Ya right.
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
#62
I'm thinking Gov. Brian Schweitzer or Elizabeth Warren in 2016. It's way too late
Zorra
Dec 2011
#29
Remember now that Schweitzer is gun advocate. No where near a purist "progressive." But I agree
RBInMaine
Dec 2011
#64
well that was the other part of your argument that was insulting and silly.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2011
#67
The focus on personalities instead of principles and issues is the problem, not the solution
saras
Dec 2011
#36
You know, most of us aren't proud of the system. We know what it is and that's why we disagree
patrice
Dec 2011
#132
OBVIOUSLY this is not plausible in 2012. There is no choice but to support Obama's reelction
Douglas Carpenter
Dec 2011
#38
I'm sick of voting for the best reformer of capitalism, to be honest. nt
Modern_Matthew
Dec 2011
#43
So? Lots of people do things they are sick of. Just because you are sick of something does not mean
BzaDem
Dec 2011
#79
But it doesn't apply to most people. It merely applies to people whose definition of "change"
BzaDem
Dec 2011
#96
It doesn't need to be 1980 for it to be true that capitalism isn't going anywhere.
BzaDem
Dec 2011
#161
Even if those people were President, they'd still be President of the same country
treestar
Dec 2011
#66
Few who criticize policy would want to elect a 'red communist' and that sort of tripe is what
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2011
#90
A more progressive candidate will be nominated. But, he/she probably won't win.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2011
#70
I will tell you how we win, by not giving up and letting you tell us that we can't win.
Bjorn Against
Dec 2011
#95
If Sanders, Kucinich, Brown or Grayson were in the running, I'd be like "Obama who?".
NorthCarolina
Dec 2011
#104
Democratic approval for President Obama is consistently around 80% on Gallup.
CakeGrrl
Dec 2011
#125
I'll do you one better: I'll show you how a liberal/progressive can get 365 electoral votes...
DRoseDARs
Dec 2011
#107
A union supporter who will de-militarize our foreign and domestic policies ...
T S Justly
Dec 2011
#111
If the midterms are any indication, making a smug point is a victory in itself to these guys
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Dec 2011
#149
People shouldn't vote based on whether or not they think that person can get 270 electoral votes
Cali_Democrat
Dec 2011
#151
I believe that Somebody who would fight FOR these Progressive Policies & Issues:
bvar22
Dec 2011
#164