Hopefully the dig at Hillary for being "poll-tested" will now be retired: Sanders hires pollster

[msrizzo]

Let the good times roll:

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/26/bernie-sanders-hires-pollster-who-worked-on-dean-campaign/?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytnational&smtyp=cur&_r=0

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has denounced candidates who are overly poll-tested, a line of attack that has been used against Hillary Rodham Clinton in the past and one he had in his prepared text as a veiled reference to her at the Iowa Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on Saturday night.

But Mr. Sanders’s campaign, flush with cash from low-dollar donors, has hired a pollster of its own, his senior adviser Tad Devine confirmed. Mr. Sanders has brought on Ben Tulchin, who polled for Howard Dean, the insurgent Democratic presidential candidate of the 2004 cycle.

[Cha]

1. Yeah, he should watch how he attacks Hillary. he might end up doing

the same thing.. oh wait a sec.. he is.

bernie being a hypocrite. bernie talkin' about "shouting" as he's shouting.. unreal.

[leftofcool]

2. The hypocrisy never ends

[Cha]

3. Never. They only flaunt it more.

[Lucky Luciano]

10. deleted / didn't realize I was in a protected group

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[livetohike]

4. He's learning how to run a conventional campaign and doing so despite

his talk about doing things differently. So much bluster, so little delivery.

[quickesst]

5. But, but......

.......... this is different because.........?

[Thinkingabout]

6. Maybe a slide has opened eyes, will be interesting to see the results.

Hum, wonder if super pacs in the future.

[NurseJackie]

7. I think you're correct …

… if he hopes to increase his chances, this is a certainty. Either way, it's a win. If he does, then the hypocrisy will become even more evident. If he doesn't, then his chances of securing the nomination continue to dwindle.

[Walk away]

13. Maybe he could disguise it as a Ben & Jerry's franchise!

Everyone else would catch on right away, but I think he could convince his supporters to spend their life savings on a pint of Bernie Berry or Socialist Sorbet!

[William769]

8. Kick & highly recommended!

[jtuck004]

9. Oh noes. Bernie breathes oxygen. I thought he was gonna be different. n/t

[Cha]

11. That has not one thing to do with the OP.. this is Hillary's Group. We don't want any bernie

breathing oxygen jokes in here.

[Walk away]

12. Bernie Sanders is just a politician like every other career elected official.

It's easy to appear pure when your life-long job has been working for a state with the population of a town in New Jersey!

He has started the attacks he was NEVER going to make already.

I'd like to take a poll on how long it takes before his supporters find out that the Emperor has no clothes!

[lunamagica]

14. I guess he didn't hire one before because he could not afford it. But it sounded better to say

that he was above all that.

He is a politician like the rest of them

[SunSeeker]

15. Good. Maybe his pollster can finally break the news to him that his campaign has stalled. nt

[riversedge]

16. Chuckle. Now we can say BERNIE IS FOLLOWING HILLARY

[msrizzo]

18. LOL...

I guess so. You might have spotted a trend!

[72DejaVu]

17. She Started it!