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SandersDem

(592 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:42 PM Oct 2015

Expect a long campaign

Everybody here knows what we are up against. We see endorsements that don't make a lot of sense until you think about all of the political capital the Clinton's have built up over many years. You have the MSM focusing on the Republican clown show and semi buying into the shouting nonsense.

Sure HRCs numbers may have gone up with Biden announcing he would not run, but we just have to know that many are just picking the person top of mind in the polls. Most people do not know about Sander's record, how true he has always been and yes to make the tough votes that represent his principals and not go with what seems politically popular at the time.

As more and more get to know Bernie, the casual HRC supporters will slip away from HRC. They will.

If we were all playing poker, this is just the time to keep grinding.

Keep the faith

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Autumn

(44,986 posts)
3. I look back to the debate. Every focus group went for Bernie yet the
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:53 PM
Oct 2015

media says Hillary won the debate. I don't believe their poll numbers and I sure as hell don't believe the media.

appalachiablue

(41,105 posts)
6. Absolutely, so twisted it reeked. And CNN had made a big deal of using Facebook on Debate
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 10:04 PM
Oct 2015

night with reporting of Don Lemon in a room of voters. Lincoln Chaffee even thanked FB in his intro. for being a sponsor!
Then when the data came in that Bernie was wildly popular and rated highly, the Facebook data and online polling were poo-pooed and disparaged. What a crock-

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)
4. Well, I never was a good poker player...
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:54 PM
Oct 2015

... but, I sure have played the game...

I wonder what Sherrod Brown's price was? I don't think he quite understands how his standing just went down... and for what?

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
8. His price was the influence of his wife.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 10:11 PM
Oct 2015

She's been gushing all month about Hillary.

I finally had to unfollow her on Facebook - and I like Connie, but the "she has a vagina" platitudes finally got to me.

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
11. Not exactly that, of course, but there were posts and posts
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 10:47 PM
Oct 2015

about Hillary being a woman and what it would mean to have a woman in the White House and blah, blah, blah.

Robbins

(5,066 posts)
5. Well
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:55 PM
Oct 2015

If polls the clinton supporters keep gleefully posting are true it would be over In Iowa and NH.

the only hope is for a people's revolt the MSM and Clinton Supporters and democratic establishment don't see coming.

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)
10. If nothing else, we are openly demonstrating the Democratic Party and the majority of Americans are
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 10:42 PM
Oct 2015

much further left than they have been brainwashed into believing.

I think those people who have spent so long building and re-enforcing their center/center right bubble, are not correctly understanding what is going on outside of the bubble. The breath from all the participants of the echo chamber have fogged the dome.

When a fairly small number of people isolate themselves in a bubble, what can you do? I say we move forward without them. they will catch up at some point.

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