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Another Reason To Vote For Bernie Sanders & Not Hillary Clinton Is Electability (Original Post) kenn3d Jan 2016 OP
Sanders is not electable. He's currently benefiting from not being under attack by Republicans like Metric System Jan 2016 #1
Unelectable? A man who has been elected for 40 years? Proserpina Jan 2016 #3
In Vermont. Metric System Jan 2016 #9
Never been there, have you? Proserpina Jan 2016 #10
YEp Ferd Berfel Jan 2016 #12
More than ample warning has been given: kenn3d Jan 2016 #8
Trump probably has more dirt on the Clintons than any other living human being 99th_Monkey Jan 2016 #2
Hillary: "It's my turn." nt antigop Jan 2016 #4
Dean: Bernie has "tremendous appeal to ordinary working people who think they are getting screwed." antigop Jan 2016 #5
Bernie Sanders is very electable. ENTHUSIASM! highprincipleswork Jan 2016 #6
This electability is pure bullshit and here's why bigdarryl Jan 2016 #7
Obama is also irrelevant this election. Proserpina Jan 2016 #11
Wrong watch this bigdarryl Jan 2016 #13
In Bizarro world maybe. Bernie would be lucky to hold onto Vermont in a G.E. stevenleser Jan 2016 #14

Metric System

(6,048 posts)
1. Sanders is not electable. He's currently benefiting from not being under attack by Republicans like
Sat Jan 16, 2016, 01:58 PM
Jan 2016

Hillary constantly has been.

 

Proserpina

(2,352 posts)
10. Never been there, have you?
Sat Jan 16, 2016, 02:55 PM
Jan 2016

New Englanders are stubborn, skeptical people. They don't go with fads. To woo them, you have to have something they want. This is true of all of the NE states (possible exception, Connecticut, which is a suburb of Manhattan).

kenn3d

(486 posts)
8. More than ample warning has been given:
Sat Jan 16, 2016, 02:30 PM
Jan 2016
Don't Underestimate Bernie Sanders
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251978728

That certainly goes for the Republicans even moreso than for HRC supporters. But it is our democratic opportunity of a lifetime that they still do not see us coming.

The landslide begins in IOWA.
 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
2. Trump probably has more dirt on the Clintons than any other living human being
Sat Jan 16, 2016, 02:08 PM
Jan 2016

and it itching to use it, in the GE against Hillary.

Sanders, not so much.

antigop

(12,778 posts)
5. Dean: Bernie has "tremendous appeal to ordinary working people who think they are getting screwed."
Sat Jan 16, 2016, 02:22 PM
Jan 2016

 

highprincipleswork

(3,111 posts)
6. Bernie Sanders is very electable. ENTHUSIASM!
Sat Jan 16, 2016, 02:23 PM
Jan 2016

All his programs and policies are very, very popular, and that is why he is getting the notice and support he is getting.

All this without the benefit of the mainstream media or the Democratic Party.

I guess some people think all that enthusiasm is just an illusion or that it will turn instantly into enthusiasm for something else. If that's what you think, you simply don't know much about enthusiasm.

Bernie Sanders is inspiring a movement of people to support the kinds of things we all know are necessary to improve the lives of the vast majority of Americans.

We should all be out there working for this, volunteering for this, donating to this, and finally voting for this, in the knowledge that, as Bernie says, "When we stand together, there is nothing we cannot accomplish."

In fact, jawboning on a site like this seems to have limited value. Probably I do much much more when I phonebank or volunteer in other ways or donate. However, it also seems that we need to get our enthusiasm back and our confidence back in supporting truly Progressive policies, after so many years of being bludgeoned with propaganda dreamed up in the Reagan years and repeated so very often.

 

bigdarryl

(13,190 posts)
7. This electability is pure bullshit and here's why
Sat Jan 16, 2016, 02:27 PM
Jan 2016

Hillary is not the current President and as Allan Lichtman explains electability means nothing in the history of.Presidential elections he made a historical point about the 2004 election that John Kerry was.though to be the more electable democrat because the had high numbers.It meant nothing in the end.It all comes down to one thing only and that is if the American people think President Obama is doing a good job to elect another democrat in 2016

 

bigdarryl

(13,190 posts)
13. Wrong watch this
Sat Jan 16, 2016, 03:36 PM
Jan 2016

By the way Lichtman comes out with his 2016 kkeys prediction in April http://m.

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stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
14. In Bizarro world maybe. Bernie would be lucky to hold onto Vermont in a G.E.
Sat Jan 16, 2016, 06:47 PM
Jan 2016

and other normally safe Democratic states.

He would make every Republican strategist and ad designers job as easy as pie.

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