Just curious, only Hilary running for the Democrats?

[akbacchus_BC]

Who else is running? I know it is too soon as President Obama has a lot of months to go!

Is Mr. Sanders planning to run as a Democrat? If only Ms. Clinton is running for the Democratic Party, then she might win!

On the other side of the pond, Alberta swinged left and elected an NDP majority. Cannot wait for Harper and Christy Clarke to go!

England too in a voting frenzy, if that Scottish Lady gain ground, it will change the politics in the UK. I hope she gets a lot of votes to make a difference in the English Parliament!

[jwirr]

1. Bernie is running as a Democrat. The DNC sent out letters announcing it.

[MelungeonWoman]

2. As of this moment

There are two candidates running on the Democratic ticket that have raised over a million dollars.

Somebody should correct me on that if I'm mistaken.

Hey OP, perhaps you could edit your post and add a poll!

[akbacchus_BC]

4. Sorry, I do not know how to do a poll!

However, I was asking a question if only Hilary is running!

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. Sanders is running for the Democratic omination.

The DNC and Clinton welcomed him to the race. There will be more.

[akbacchus_BC]

5. Is Bernie Sanders really running on a Democratic platform?

How come an Independent candidate can do that?

[joshcryer]

6. Same way Howard Dean did in 2004.

[SheilaT]

9. Howard Dean was already a Democrat,

so I'm not sure why you'd express it this way.

[joshcryer]

12. Vermont doesn't have party registration.

As far as I understand.

[SheilaT]

15. They may not have party registration for voters,

but most offices are partisan, including the governor's race. There are other states that don't require voters to register a party affiliation, either. But that's very different from an elected official not having a party affiliation.

Howard Dean has been a Democrat for all or most of his adult life.

[Agnosticsherbet]

20. Below is a link to the Demcoratic party of vermont

http://www.vtdemocrats.org/

They also have a Republican Party and a Progressive party.

If you check out their state, elected Democrats control the state legislature.

And Senator Leahy of Vermont is a Democrat.

In primaries, citizens must chose a party that they will vote for.

In Presidential Primaries, their choice is recorded.

I see this everywhere and it takes only a little time to find out that they do have Democrats in Vermont.

[NYC_SKP]

7. He's been saying that he'll be running as a Socialist Democrat (or a Democrat on the ticket)

IOW, he'll be changing parties.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/populist-bernie-sanders-running-democrat-challenging-hillary-clinton

[freshwest]

11. I've read the platforms for several years. It's his agenda. There's a reason he campaigned against

the GOP and turned voters to turn out in 2014 and vote Democratic as the only powerful enough group to resist GOP nihilism.

If Bernie doesn't agree with the Democratic platform for 2016, I have not seen it detailed. Many Democrats, especially older ones like myself, see him as a regular Democrat despite the label of being an Independent.

He caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate. Even though there are some differences in our party regarding non-Democrats running, he's no different than us. He's more of a Democrat than any small party.

But then I am not interested in the technicalities or legal points if the philosophy is the same. To me he picked the Democratic Party to run with for good reasons.

[NYC_SKP]

8. Oh by the way, this poll of ~800 DU members favors Sanders to Clinton, 716 to 72

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6592890

[AtomicKitten]

10. Oooooo. So close.

[BainsBane]

13. I didn't know there were even 800 people on here

Know what else I heard? They are considering letting people who aren't on DU vote in primary. Can you imagine that?!

[NYC_SKP]

14. Oh No! I'll bet ACORN is behind that!

[MineralMan]

16. DU does not reflect national Democratic voters.

Not even close. DUers won't be choosing the Democratic nominee. Sometimes we forget that.

[Bobbie Jo]

17. True

DU went for Kucinich in 2008.

Overwhelmingly.

So there's that...

[MineralMan]

19. I've always liked Kucinich,

but he was never a real possibility as President. I love Bernie Sanders, but I'm afraid he's extremely unlikely to prevail in the Democratic primaries, either. I'll caucus for him in Minnesota's caucuses, but I very much doubt he'll get much traction here, either. More's the pity.

Politics is about political reality.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. Let them have their fun...