2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why would any liberal support Hillary over Bernie? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)elected repeatedly for over 4 decades. It's rather ludicrous to say that someone who has been elected as often as he has, first as Mayor of Burlington, then to Congress multiple time, and then to the Senate. I'm not seeing an electability problem at all.
Hillary otoh was not elected to anything until she ran for the Senate in NY. After which she ran and lost a bid for the WH. I would say that Bernie has had more success getting himself elected than Hillary at this point.
So now we have in one post, the two talking points that are supposed to be repeated over and over again in the hope that people will eventually buy them. They didn't work when they were first 'unveiled' so not sure why you are trying again.
And you are apparently not aware that the corrosive and corrupting influence of money in politics is now one of the major issues in this campaign, for the first time.
That means that those TAKING that money are going to be burdened for the first time with the task of explaining WHY they are accepting such bribes from very wealthy donors.
Bernie otoh, has the advantage of being the only candidate in the race who is not for sale. I guess you haven't seen any polls on how the public feels about this issue. But Bernie has. He's a smart man, he knows what the people want and what they are thinking. Seems to me that status quo candidates are very much out of touch with the people.