2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie chose to run as a Democrat.
Therefore, he is a declared candidate to be the Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States.
MineralMan
(146,345 posts)He'll be on any ballot he chooses, I guarantee.
And good luck on your political endeavors this election season.
MiniMe
(21,722 posts)He doesn't want to run as an independent because he knows that splitting the vote up is a bad thing.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)They claimed that Bernie could not declare party affiliation in VT. Turns out that doesn't seem quite right.
dsc
(52,172 posts)after all LaRouche ran as a Democrat. I do think there should be some quality control as to candidates but Sanders certainly passes any reasonable quality control.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)better than a whole lot of democrats.
Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)over "better than a Republican". Some people are getting sore noses from holding them so often.
dsc
(52,172 posts)but I will say that having some rules isn't a wholly bad idea.