Poll - Clinton - Sanders - Greatest Threat

[SoLeftIAmRight]

Last edited Wed Feb 10, 2016, 03:54 AM - Edit history (1)

"We have to look at ISIS as the leading threat of an international network. It cannot be contained--it must be defeated," she said, in a seeming rhetorical break from President Obama.


Sanders also defended a comment made at the last debate, when he called climate change the greatest threat facing the world. "Climate change is directly related to the rise of terrorism," he said.

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	I support Clinton and I think ISIS is the greatest threat.
	0 (0%)
	I support Clinton and I think protecting the environment is the number one issue.
	0 (0%)
	I support Sanders and I think ISIS is the Greatest threat.
	0 (0%)
	I support Sanders and I think protecting the environment is the number one issue.
	26 (79%)
	I do not like this poll.
	7 (21%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[SoLeftIAmRight]

1. How many Clinton supporters support her position?

Let's keep count!

[SoLeftIAmRight]

2. One

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[SoLeftIAmRight]

6. two

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[SoLeftIAmRight]

18. three

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[SoLeftIAmRight]

39. three

Hillary supporters do not like Hillary's position

[SoLeftIAmRight]

40. three

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[Motown_Johnny]

3. You can't prop up the military industrial complex by being tough on climate change.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. I think that individuals who

design polls like this might unwittingly be a greater threat than any of the options provided.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

8. What did Clinton say when asked what is the greatest threat we face?

Sanders?

[kristopher]

23. The question was posed this way

TODD: Alright, as Commander in Chief, Senator Sanders, you've got to prioritize potential threats to the United States. Three countries, North Korea, Iran, Russia. How would you rank them in order of their threat to America's security right now...

SANDERS: ... ISIS...

TODD: ... Starting with the biggest threat.

SANDERS: ISIS, you forgot one...

TODD: ... I didn't say that...

SANDERS: ... No, no...

TODD: ... No...

SANDERS: ... ISIS would be ...

TODD: ... We already had that. I'm talking about these three countries. How would you orient our national security, our national defense posture.

SANDERS: Clearly North Korea is a very strange situation because it is such an isolated country run by a handful of dictators, or maybe just one, who seems to be somewhat paranoid. And, who had nuclear weapons.

And, our goal there, in my view, is to work and lean strongly on China to put as much pressure. China is one of the few major countries in the world that has significant support for North Korea, and I think we got to do everything we can to put pressure on China. I worry very much about an isolated, paranoid country with atomic bombs.

I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.

TODD: Secretary of Defense Ash Carter this week picked one of those three, and he has said Russia is, basically, the most important national security threat. Sort of reorienting the defense and the challenges to that. Do you agree with his decisions...

SANDERS: ... No, I don't. I worry very, very much about an isolated country. That's what makes me nervous. Russia lives in the world. China lives in the world. North Korea is a very, very strange country because it is so isolated, and I do feel that a nation with nuclear weapons, they have got to be dealt with. Dealt with effectively.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/transcript-msnbc-democratic-candidates-debate-n511036

Clinton agreed with Ash Carter. I agree with Sanders.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

24. Different Debate

It was an open question - no choices given

You are talking about a "clean up" question at a later event - Hillary given a pass and Sanders was not given the opportunity to voice his position on the "greatest real threat"

[kristopher]

27. Then you need to quote it - I can't find it.

CNN's debate with Webb, Chafee et al touched on it, but that seems far less of a considered answer than the MSNBC debate to me.
If you want to refer to that one, it would probably prevent confusion if you gave better references for the questions.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

28. I am not confused

sorry you are

What do you think about the fact that there are not votes for the environment amoung the Hillary voters?

[kristopher]

38. It could be they don't care, but it might be an artifact of the poll itself

[trillion]

46. Sanders answered this quite well.

[kristopher]

5. So you don't know Sander's #1 priority?

[SoLeftIAmRight]

7. you are so silly

When asked - Greatest Threat

[kristopher]

9. Restoring democracy because the lack of democracy is root of all other "threats".

[SoLeftIAmRight]

11. So you do not support Clinton's position?

???

[kristopher]

14. I have no idea what you are making cryptograms about.

Why not write clear, complete sentences.

[kristopher]

12. BTW, I'm pretty sure his answer wasn't ISIS, it was N. Korea.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

13. you must have missed that debate

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[kristopher]

16. Nope. He said N. Korea was greatest concern. He just acknowledged ISIS as threat.

N. Korea is unstable and has nuclear weapons.

[kristopher]

19. Reporting

Sanders also called for a “political revolution,” that Americans need to stand up and fight back.

When the debate steered to foreign policy, Sanders said North Korea poses the greatest threat to the U.S.

“Clearly North Korea is a very strange situation because it is such an isolated country,” he said. “North Korea is ran by handful or dictators or maybe just one.”

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/02/04/clinton-sanders-debate/

But I do see the ambiguity of the back and forth in the debate. It gives a reasonable basis for what you say.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

20. it was the debate before that one

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[SoLeftIAmRight]

21. might have been at the town hall

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Open question

What is the greatest threat?

no choices given

[SoLeftIAmRight]

10. zero Clinton supporters think the environment is the greatest threat

zero and 2 support her position

very sad

[SoLeftIAmRight]

22. Zero

the difference in the support for the environment troubles me

[SoLeftIAmRight]

41. ZERO - really

Wow

[artislife]

15. My number one has been environment

And that has been my concern for years.

I live in a beautiful part of the country but it is dying. When I think about moving to other parts of the country, I think about their water supply and if it is viable or clean. I don't think there is a lot of choice out there.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

17. Very few Clinton supporters support her position.

not so true for Sanders

WOW!

[SoLeftIAmRight]

25. Do any Hillary supporters think that environmental issues should be ...

close to the top?

[EdwardBernays]

26. I support Sanders

but don't think either of those issues is the biggest threat...

[SoLeftIAmRight]

30. Air - Water - Food

Housing - Healthcare - Education - Energy - Transportation

Relations - with self - others - and between all entities

[firebrand80]

29. I voted "Do not like"

I understand it's hard to distill issues down into a poll, but both these terms are far too vague. To me, "environment" encompasses everything from carbon pollution to infrastructure spending. "ISIS" is simply one aspect of a larger, and very complex problem.

Environmental issues affect my day-to-day life far more than ISIS. On the other hand, if a terrorist detonates a nuclear device within our borders or takes down a significant portion of our electrical grid for an extended period of time, a lot of other problems will start to look very small, very quickly.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

31. During one of the debates - Question - What is the greatest threat

Open question

Hillary - ISIS

Sanders - Climate change

sorry - just want to see who agrees with their candidates stated position

[firebrand80]

32. My point is that they're both correct IMO

It just depends on how you look at it.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

33. My position -

$1,000,000,000,000 every year - military industrial complex - the national security monster

we got ISIS covered

Not a single waterway in New Jersey where it is safe for a pregnant woman to eat the fish

Environment - not so much

[firebrand80]

34. The problem with all that military spending

Is that it's very useful in dissuading any conventional military from challenging us, but it's capacity to fight small, decentralized terrorist groups is limited. So we can't really point to military spending and assume that we've got terrorism covered.

I'm not saying I necessarily disagree with your position, like I said, it depends on how you look at it. Environmental issues affect people's lives on a more day-to-day basis. Terrorism is one of those things that we don't really thing about until it happens. There are probably many terrorist attacks that are prevented that we can never hear about, but would send chills up your spine if you knew the details.

[Agschmid]

35. I've knocked out six canvass packets today... You?

[SoLeftIAmRight]

36. good work

today - and now - i go to my job

be well

[Agschmid]

37. I took the day off, lots of work to be done.

[Warren DeMontague]

42. Unless ISIS gets a moon base

the entire argument is moot if we don't have a planet on which to fight over whose invisible friend in the sky is better.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

43. Calling all Hillary supporters ...

where are you?

[Kelvin Mace]

44. Kick!

[SoLeftIAmRight]

45. Thanks

it will take a few more to back up

[trillion]

47. Kick

[bananas]

48. k&r nt