From the New Republic: "Bernie Sanders Is the Frontrunner. Obviously."

[RobertDevereaux]

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"While other campaigns have rushed to embrace Sanders policies, such as Medicare for All, he remains the party’s policy pacesetter. Other Democrats who are parroting his positions, often in watered-down form, have yet to dent Sanders’s poll numbers, even as more candidates enter the race. This is even true of Warren, whose ambitious policy work has surpassed Sanders’s in detail and scope (if not in radicalism).

"Reports of a decline in enthusiasm among Sanders’s supporters also appear to have been greatly exaggerated. His fundraising and poll numbers disprove the idea that he’s an also-ran. But there are other signs of his continued vitality. Despite his near-universal name recognition, and the media’s overwhelming attention lately to O’Rourke, Biden, and Buttigieg, Sanders has consistently been among the top three Democratic candidates in Google searches, suggesting continued interest in his campaign. Finally, he appears to be broadly liked throughout the party. A Morning Consult poll in February found that he was the second choice for voters who supported the campaigns of Biden, Warren, and O’Rourke, suggesting that support could coalesce around his candidacy as other Democrats drop out."
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https://newrepublic.com/article/153462/bernie-sanders-frontrunner-obviously?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=sharebtn&fbclid=IwAR08qa1txDo4AfLGBWOHtrZVOmvDU3-Im8OBP5aYMwWVyHo2IShO0SSyTUI

[Gothmog]

2. sanders is not electable

Link to tweet

“A combined 58 percent of voters are either uncomfortable (37 percent) or have reservations about (21 percent) Bernie Sanders’ 2020 bid. For Elizabeth Warren, it’s a combined 53 percent. And for Kamala Harris and Beto O’Rourke, it’s 41 percent of voters expressing either reservations or discomfort.” Given that the overwhelming number of voters know who Sanders is, there is no excuse — as there is for other candidates — that they have insufficient information to decide whether to vote for him. Sanders is about as well known as former vice president Joe Biden, yet the poll shows that Biden’s comfortable/uncomfortable rating (48/48) clearly outpaces Sanders’s (37/58).....

Sanders’s age, the “socialist” moniker he embraces and his 2016 campaign problem with women are not going to change during the race. It’s unlikely his personality or his familiarity with foreign policy will improve, either. (The guy is 77, and if we have learned anything from Trump, it is that septuagenarians don’t change their personalities nor attend to habitual deficits in knowledge.) Oh, and on Sunday he again promised to release his tax returns, which he promised over a month ago would be “soon.”

[Cha]

12. That's more to the point.. not some

article by a BS fan who doesn't like Dems.

Thanks, Goth.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. Jennifer Rubin is an embarrassed republican who writes the "Right Turn" blog.

She should fix her own fucked up party.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread RobertDevereaux.

[RelativelyJones]

4. Bernie's going nowhere. Too many Dems can't stand him.

[calimary]

18. Anybody who hems 'n' haws about releasing his/her tax returns

SHOULD go nowhere. And I include The Asset in that, too. He leads that list, for me.

[quickesst]

5. What if Joe Biden drops in?

Do you thank that other candidates supporters will flock exclusively to Sanders as those other candidates drop out? If Biden decides to run, it will be interesting to see how it all shakes out. Another scenario would be that as certain candidates drop out, their supporters decide to support someone other than Sanders or Biden.

After reading the article at the link, I can only describe it one way. A cheap shot, hit job on some of the other candidates who are running or might run. I was actually amazed at how far the article went in order to give credence to Bernie Sanders and his campaign.

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. Check out the author's previous work. The headlines alone tell me he's not fond of Democrats.

Sounds a lot like Sirota: https://newrepublic.com/authors/alex-shephard

[Cha]

10. "Give It Up, Democrats. The Russia Investigation Is Over."

by Alex Shepard

Thanks, Tarheel!

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. I wouldn't be surprised to find out he's working secretly for the BS campaign. Others have done that

[Cha]

15. Yeah, why not.. a BS

fan writes "BS is the frontrunner!!! "

[quickesst]

17. I would be ashamed and embarrassed

.... to have this guy as a reference for my candidate of choice. He is absolutely Faux News worthy. I'm pretty sure Bernie approves.

[workinclasszero]

6. Nice to see a little validation from the media

[yaesu]

7. I like Bernie but its way too early to make predictions. nt

[quickesst]

8. This is one of those OPs....

.... hoping the snip will be enough to satisfy everybody.

Another snip:
"After flirting with a run for months, Beto O’Rourke finally made his move by jumping on a bunch of countertops. Pete Buttigieg became a Cinderella story, rocketing up the polls to fifth—ahead of Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker—in what David Brooks, to a chorus of groans across America, referred to as “the biggest star-is-born moment since Lady Gaga started singing ‘Shallow.’” Joe Biden, who leads in the polls despite not having declared his candidacy, was accused by two women of unwanted touching, prompting a reevaluation of his entire, handsy history with women."

A cheap shot at other candidates that could have come straight from the lead story at Faux News.

[BlueFlorida]

11. Name recognition and residual reminiscence of Bernie mania. nt

[BannonsLiver]

16. The author is living in an alternate reality

[Jakes Progress]

19. Nominating Sanders is the surest way to reelect trump.

There is a scary chance that he might win the primary. No chance in hell of his winning the general. Those who keep telling him he can are not doing him nor the public any good.

trump is so bad that Bernie might get seven or eight states. But if trump isn't the candidate, Democrats lose 50 - zip.