2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumEugene Robinson: Bernie Sanders’ Run Is No Fairy Tale
Bernie Sanders Run Is No Fairy TaleBy Eugene Robinson * Jan 15, 2016 * TruthDig.com
If you thought the political landscape couldnt be more unsettled, think again. In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders is surging. Hillary Clinton now faces not a coronation, not a cakewalk, but a contestone she could lose.
Has there ever been a worse election to be an establishment candidate? Certainly not in my lifetime. When a pitchfork-populist billionaire is leading one partys race and a self-described socialist is rapidly gaining ground in the other, I think its safe to say were somewhere we havent been before.
For much of the past year, Clinton led Sanders in national polls by more than 20 points. Now, according to the Real Clear Politics average, her lead has shrunk to less than nine pointsand the most recent survey, a CBS/New York Times poll released this week, showed just a seven-point gap.
State polls should make Clinton even more nervous. Her once-comfortable lead over Sanders in Iowa is now just four points, pretty much a toss-up. And in New Hampshire, Sandersa longtime senator from next-door Vermontleads Clinton by six points. It is within the realm of possibility that the presumptive Democratic nominee could lose both of the first two states. Then what?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/bernie_sanders_run_is_no_fairy_tale_20160115
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)lewebley3
(3,412 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)Took me 3 tries to read it. So does the person mean no run is a fraud as in Bernies run is real or ahem if your gonna attack someone , attack it right with punctuation somewhere. Especially when the OP has it going something akin to Bernie's run is no fairy tail. Like Bernie didn't expect to make it this far. Someone who doesn't expect to make it is no fraud.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)My reactions to every post, exactly.
Marty McGraw
(1,024 posts)for the HRC camp woes
ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...when you say that "No Sanders run is a fraud". That is true: Every Sanders run has been open and above-board and anything but fraudulent.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)lewebley3
(3,412 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)INdemo
(6,994 posts)No details, no facts just your opinion.
Right? Wow you should go a very long way with that.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Duval
(4,280 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)We have NEVER, in my 60 years on this earth, never seen an election season like this. It's why the so-called "experts" have been wrong right on down the line. They've been wrong EVERY TIME.
I've no idea how this is going to all shake out. The only thing I know is that as hard as Bernie supporters have been working on his behalf, we have to double, then triple our efforts. No one, NOT ONE of the "experts" saw this coming and, unbelievably, they're still pushing the meme that "in the end, Hillary will be the nominee." That's not at all a certainty at this point and Bernie supports have to keep at it. Remember, NO ONE thought we'd get anywhere near this far. We've been doin' it so far, there's no reason to believe we cant' keep doin' it.
appalachiablue
(41,102 posts)K & R Thank you Eugene Robinson, one of the best and most honest.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)"Stagnant corporate parasite packs of pundits"
But I like it!
It's really a dual gift: We get a "real" populist, and 'Talking Heads Inc" are utterly discredited.
appalachiablue
(41,102 posts)And as said, those prolific Talking Heads better shape up or they'll soon be 'headless hordes in hovels...'
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)It doesn't matter how wrong they are, they get to keep their jobs.
sorechasm
(631 posts)Good for him:
Instead, we should start by looking at Sanders and his message. All along, his campaign has enjoyed less media coverage than it deserves. I believe many journalists accepted the conventional wisdom that he is too unpolished and too far to the left to win the nominationdespite evidence that substantial numbers of Democrats disagree.
It is clear that the MSM has been unleashed. He calls out Hillary's latest truth-stretching:
Come on, be real. Sanders doesnt want to eliminate government health programs, he wants to combine them all into one comprehensive system. A more honest line of attack might be that Sanders has yet to spell out how he would pay for universal health careor, for that matter, get it through a hostile Congress.
Some journalists like him are clearly tired of being shills for the MSM.
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Eugene is one of the better members of the MSM, glad to see him shining a little much-deserved attention Bernie's way. Maybe some of his colleagues will also step up.