Help Bernie Sanders Win TIME’s Person of the Year Poll

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Help Bernie Sanders Win TIME’s Person of the Year Poll

With less than 3 days left to vote, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders leads the TIME Person of the Year Poll, ahead of political rivals Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Sanders has far exceeded expectations in the 2016 Democratic primary and has helped dramatically improve how American political candidates discuss marijuana legalization and greater criminal justice reforms, especially among Democrats.

It was once unfathomable that a mainstream presidential candidate, with a serious chance of victory, would declare support for cannabis legalization, let alone declare the Drug War a failure, but Sanders’ positions have altered the Democratic landscape on the issue. Not only has Sanders called for an end to federal marijuana prohibition, but he has forced presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton to state a more progressive position as well.

TIME’s Person of the Year has included presidents John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, but a candidate has never won the honor. Bernie Sanders’ campaign has broken the mold in many respects, from his criminal justice policies; to his refusal to associate with a big-money Political Action Committee; to his defense of democratic socialist policies in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal policies; and his recruitment of an army of small donors that have eclipsed even the numbers earned by Barack Obama.

The cannabis community has an opportunity to further demonstrate the broad support and enthusiasm for a candidate that has called for an end to a failed and harmful war waged upon nonviolent citizens. While TIME’s editors will ultimately make the call on the magazine’s Person of the Year, Sanders winning the readers’ poll will help continue the momentum of this unique candidate as well as our momentum to end the disastrous War on Drugs.

http://marijuanapolitics.com/help-bernie-sanders-win-time-person-of-the-year-poll/

[monmouth4]

1. Right now at 78%..n/t

[JaneyVee]

2. Or Malala.

Ya know, someone who has actually done something to deserve it. I just voted for her 3x.

[Live and Learn]

3. Attempting to cheat on an online poll? nt

[JaneyVee]

4. It's very common to vote on online polls more than once.

It's not really cheating.

[Live and Learn]

5. It is cheating and unless you know what you are doing your vote is only counting once. nt

[JaneyVee]

6. What?

How is it cheating?

[Live and Learn]

8. They obviously only want you to vote once which is why they make you sign in

and track ip addresses. The only way to actually chet is to use different facebook and twitter accounts and change ip addresses or devices. Therefore, your vote only counts once no matter how many times you reenter and click or you are going out of your way to cheat.

[JTFrog]

10. Oh get the fuck out.

What is wrong with some people around here.

There used to be a phrase around here: DU this poll!

That was a call to arms to go and vote as many times as you could in an online poll to make it skew liberal.

Maybe this site isn't right for you if that gets you so upset...

Just sayin...

[Skidmore]

7. You do realize that the editors

select the PoY and that often that person isn't the one who "wins" the internet poll? I can think of many people who have impacted events and the news.

[Live and Learn]

9. Of course I realize that. I think Bernie has impacted plenty of lives, including mine. nt

[brooklynite]

11. Why?

To make you feel good?

"Winning" the TIME Magazine poll has no bearing on whom they pick.

[Live and Learn]

13. Yes. nt

[onenote]

12. Campaigns like this one are exactly why winning the online poll is a joke

It was a joke when a professional wrestler won it.
It was a joke when Kim Jong Un won it.
It was a joke when Narendra Modi won it.
It was a joke when Abdel Fattah el-Sisi won it.

Why? Because those "victories," like most of the "victories" in the readers' poll were the result of campaigns by the "victor's" supporters to stuff the ballot box.

Organized campaigns to get folks to vote for a particular person like the one in the OP are just another case in point.

And yet the wailing here when Sanders isn't named POTY will be deafening.

For the record, unless Time chickens out (which very well may happen), the Time POTY will be ISIS. I know that sounds disgusting, but the standard the magazine sets is "person, group, idea, or object that, for good or bad, has done the most to influence the events of the year. Sadly, that is ISIS hands down.

[Live and Learn]

14. I know Hillary's numbers are a bit of a disappointment.

I feel for you.

[onenote]

17. Sorry to disappoint you. I'm voting for Bernie in the primaries

Something I have noted here numerous times. I've also donated to Bernie's campaign.

And I don't give a rat's ass about anybody's poll numbers, whether its an online campaign like the Time Reader's poll or a "scientific" poll for the primaries or general. Whether Bernie can pull it off is something we won't know until the first few primaries are held. Until then, it's just noise to me.

So you'll just have live with the fact I'm not going to get excited about winning a meaningless poll. Nor am I so blinded by my support for Bernie to think that he should be the magazine's choice given what the standard for being named POTY is.

[Live and Learn]

18. It is difficult to understand your ire on the issue, then. If you don't care why bother with it at

all?

[onenote]

19. Because I find it embarrassing when my fellow Sanders' supporters

ignore reality.

For the record, I also find it embarrassing when Clinton supporters to the same things (as when they got all excited about Bernie missing the ACA vote).

[ronnykmarshall]

21. SNAP!!!!

[book_worm]

15. This is why he is leading because his followers go on social media

to have people vote for him. That is why he won't be "Person of the Year" because they know it. If a political figure is Person of the Year it will probably be Trump.

[Live and Learn]

16. So Hillary's people don't use social media? Maybe social media should be the person of the year. nt

[ronnykmarshall]

20. You do know ......

that the editors pick the actual person, right?

[Crystalite]

22. I think we all know this. That doesn't change certain facts...

And especially when one is fighting huge buckets of corporate funding, it's encouraging to see these glimpses of the other side of the coin, the peoples' voices.

There's not a damn thing wrong with it.

[Live and Learn]

23. SNAP!!!! nt