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Showing Original Post only (View all)Is Bernie 2.0 Eugene McCarthy redux? [View all]
Some thoughts from Dick Polman in Philadelphia, who writes for WHYY and The Atlantic, among others.
Bernie Sanders 2.0 has officially launched. No surprise there. But his candidacy is probably doomed to fail. He seems destined to be Gene McCarthy 2.0.
Anyone remember that guy? McCarthy, an iconoclastic liberal senator, was the pied piper for disaffected Democrats in the early primaries of 1968. His insurgent antiwar candidacy galvanized young people and prompted President Lyndon Johnson to forego re-election. Clean Gene (his nickname back in the day) did not win the nomination, but, having enjoyed his historic moment, he tried to replicate it by running again in 1972. He was crushed. He tried to run again in 1976, this time as an independent. Crushed again. He tried again, as a Democrat, in 1992 and he was crushed again. He was a terminally embittered guy by the time I interviewed him at length in 1987; according to my notes, he groused that the American electorate had become over-advertised, over-drugged and over-infotained.
Clean Genes moment came and went. So has Bernies.
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Why Bernie Sanders is probably toast
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The reasons Sanders does so poorly among POC and non-millennial women is all about "ideas."
Garrett78
Feb 2019
#36
That's the first I've read of him but when I read his article it was clear where he was coming from
Autumn
Feb 2019
#18
I've been reading Polman a lot as I've spent the last 37 years in Philadelphia.
GoneOffShore
Feb 2019
#21
"...the fact is Sanders lost because he got wiped out among African American voters."
Garrett78
Feb 2019
#28
He has 100% name recognition and he's polling at 12% among African Americans in SC
DemocratSinceBirth
Feb 2019
#38
He may well be a legitimate contender for the nomination, but does he have a chance in the general?
GoneOffShore
Feb 2019
#39