2016 Postmortem
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(14,689 posts)Hillary Clinton to Bill Richardson, circa 2008.
NanceGreggs
(27,821 posts)Because Obama and Sanders are SO much alike - it's hard to tell them apart sometimes - right?
kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)The point is that "unelectable" is a bad argument. That is what the author is really talking about (however briefly.)
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,719 posts)eom
kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)Yeah, they definitely should be completely unelectable.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)that they did in 2008 and it shouldn't be any surprise who they support.
Persondem
(1,936 posts)You are trying to compares apples and a car.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)nt
brooklynite
(95,036 posts)...who at this point in 2007 was polling 35-30% nationwide; Sanders is nowhere near that.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Both politically and financially, than Obama was.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Where is all of Bernie Sanders' money?
Indepatriot
(1,253 posts)And a former Republican. Should we discount her for those reasons? Agesim, really?...
Persondem
(1,936 posts)Last edited Fri Jun 19, 2015, 08:35 AM - Edit history (1)
Warren is a former R but I bet you love her. Yeah, it's only 3 years but he looks 15 years older. (Oh no, look-ism!) If you don't get that Bernie is damn near unmarketable then we'll just have to disagree. His age isn't the main thing; it's that socialist albatross that is the killer. Looking like your crazy old uncle will be just a bonus to the GOP smear machine.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)people are actually not as stupid as you think.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)... voted for Hillary, that Obama would also, ABSOLUTELY beat any GOP opponent.
Only then did rank and file Dems start to compare them to each other.
Its not CAN Bernie win ... its WILL he ABSOLUTELY win.
I know those who hate Hillary think she can't ... but MOST rank and file Dems believe she absolutely WILL beat any GOP opponent ... just as they did in 2008.
You want Bernie to beat her ... you need to convience those same folks Bernie will ABSOLUTELY win.
Evergreen Emerald
(13,071 posts)!
frylock
(34,825 posts)brooklynite
(95,036 posts)He was happy to engage with people who could afford to give the maximum ($2,500) and held plenty of events in High end residences in NYC and LA. As a result, he had the financial resources to mount the kind of campaign necessary to defeat Clinton.
Sanders?
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)'pay the piper', indeed.
I'm not falling for THAT bullshit ever again.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)He's a 70+-year-old white guy from Vermont with goofy hair. His path to the nomination will be a 90-degree uphill climb.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)I think Bernie does have charisma - lots of it!
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Last edited Sat Jun 20, 2015, 10:09 PM - Edit history (1)
thought Obama wasn't electable.
Back in the days when very few realized how republicans played their media game.
It took forever for FOX LIES & IS AN ARM OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY to become understood as the new republican brand.