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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The logical reason that Bernie will win. [View all]retrowire
(10,345 posts)35. these details are much more helpful
so then, would you have been for Bernie this time round had you lived in Vermont and met the man multiple times?
just a question and I mean nothing by this but, is having met a candidate really enough to give them a leg up on possibly superior competition?
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Um, you're only talking about Democratic voters. The biggest voting bloc in the country right now
sabrina 1
Oct 2015
#12
I am an Obama supporter now for Bernie. I remember the exact same claims 'he can't win' etc
sabrina 1
Oct 2015
#15
I supported Obama in 2007, actually, wanted him to run for years before that.
MohRokTah
Oct 2015
#17
Democratic Solcialism is simply imposing the socialism econimic system via a democratic political...
MohRokTah
Oct 2015
#67
What you describe has precisely nothing to do with governmental control of the means of production.
MohRokTah
Oct 2015
#72
No. Regulation of commerce is clearly a power spelled out in the constitution.
MohRokTah
Oct 2015
#77
And I will oppose such a system being implemented with the last breath in my body. eom
MohRokTah
Oct 2015
#81
Worse would happen under a bureaucratic nightmare through government control of the means of...
MohRokTah
Oct 2015
#90
Clinton was the anti-Obama in 2008; now she's on our team and Sanders is the anti-O.
ucrdem
Oct 2015
#44
That actually makes some sense, in a way. Hillary always seems to hitch her wagon to falling stars.
reformist2
Oct 2015
#74
Except Sanders isn't showing that he is able to win the African American vote
mythology
Oct 2015
#88
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! You are exactly right and let's throw in Clinton fatigue, Anti Wall St. -
in_cog_ni_to
Oct 2015
#96
Bernie isn't going to get anywhere as large of a share of the African-American vote as Obama
Freddie Stubbs
Oct 2015
#103
No, Bernie is not "appealing to the very same people that Obama had enchanted."
Skinner
Oct 2015
#109