Sanders or Clinton: Who would be more effective with a Republican Congress?

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51. Correction: Obama tried to occupy the ground the Republicans were supposed to be standing on.

For example, when you start with RomneyCare/HeritageCare instead of single payer, it may be good politics, but it's terrible governance. What you've done is taken away from the Republicans what they likely would've put on the table before seeing if they would. The GOP would've boasted about how great Romneycare was had Obama proposed single payer, and the compromise would've ended up being RomneyCare + a public option = "Obamacare."

Every honest person knows Obama did it the way he did because he wanted insurance company money for the Democrats, and proposing single payer would've ended that possibility.

You want to know why no Republican voted for RomneyCare/HeritageCare/Obamacare? Because they weren't allowed to put it on the table.

If someone's view is, as some in this thread have, that it's more important that Democratic President Obama "beats the Republicans" than it is that we end up with a public option in the final bill, then it shouldn't shock any of you when many Bernie Sanders supporters say it's "Bernie or Bust" because they don't care about the cheerleading.