Democratic Primaries
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Trouble in Socialist paradise? Some Sanders supporters are "worried."
I think Americans have very short attention spans, so to speak, said Jim Rouillard, a retiree from Wolfeboro. Wanting the new flavor all the time, you know? Whereas Bernie has changed very little. Im disappointed that hes not the front-runner as I felt he was [in 2016].
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Sanders campaign highlighted those points in a call with reporters on Monday, pushing back on the notion, fuelled by polling data, that his bid for the presidency had begun to flounder. A Monmouth University poll of likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa released last week, for example, showed Sanders slipping into fourth place in the Hawkeye State....But other supporters say theyve become disillusioned by Sanders style and are turning to something fresh...
Carlotta Hayes, a yoga teacher who worked on Sanders last presidential bid... I think this thing, she added, mimicking the Vermont senators characteristic finger-pointing, is good for so long."...The biggest threat to Sanders candidacy may be Warren, the other progressive star in the race... Neil Brody, a real estate company owner from Bethlehem, New Hampshire, said he preferred Warren to Sanders, whom he backed in the 2016 election, because she is a little more energetic.
She comes off a little more younger. Shes better at explaining things. She tells a better story. Bernie just says it, Brody explained after her event on Wednesday.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d548d44e4b0eb875f1efc10/amp
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)But he is NOT a socialist.
When YOU call him a socialist you do NOT help the cause of the Democratic party.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TwilightZone
(25,479 posts)Both with and without the "democratic" qualifier.
"Socialist" the word is a loaded term and often a rhetorical weapon. But Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., seems to proudly claim it.
"Do they think Im afraid of the word? Im not afraid of the word," he said in an interview with The Nation published in July. "When I ran for the Senate the first time, I ran against the wealthiest guy in the state of Vermont. He spent a lot on advertising very ugly stuff. He kept attacking me as a liberal. He didnt use the word socialist at all, because everybody in the state knows that I am that."
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/aug/26/bernie-sanders-socialist-or-democratic-socialist/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)are doing it to cause harm not just to him but to the idea of universal healthcare, for example.
I cant stand Sanders, but I wont sit by while people change the meaning of things resulting in us losing healthcare and more.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
crazytown
(7,277 posts)it's fried chicken
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Princetonian
(1,501 posts)🐓
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Not just a 'democratic socialist'.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)Your opponents, to be blunt, have stolen all your ideas, the man complained. Why are you not calling them out for taking your ideas?
Sanders declined to take the bait. The 2020 candidate, wrapping up a two-day swing through the northern part of the Granite State, a rugged, rural area that stretches up to Canada, relished the fact that several of his competitors have also backed populist proposals like Medicare for All and a $15 minimum wage.
Im not going to call them out. Im proud of it! Sanders responded, garnering applause. People can decide for themselves, and what the primary process is about is what candidate do you trust the most? And thats what you have to decide.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)That is another mantra that has been holding BS down. People fully understand that mantra is based off of walking on the backs of others.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)And even if you dont see it that way a lot of politicians would have bit at that question and given a less generous answer.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
thesquanderer
(11,992 posts)And everybody "walks on the backs of others" in one way or another.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Vegas Roller
(704 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,655 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
comradebillyboy
(10,175 posts)biggest boosters in 2016.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,655 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
empedocles
(15,751 posts)to the [bitter?] end.'
Given 2016, seems that he will.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Persondem
(1,936 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided