Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumMy Prediction: Bernie Sanders Will Win the White House
Posted on June 1, 2015 by Eric Zuesse.
Eric Zuesse
On May 12th, I presented my analysis of the polling as of that time, headlining, The Early Signs of Whom The Next U.S. President Will Likely Be: Presidential Polls Look Confusing Regarding Bernie, But Downright Bad Regarding Hillary & All Republicans. Based on the net-favorability ratings of candidates in the first poll that had really meaningful results on that most important of all factors (which poll had just been published), and also based on the latest available reliable poll of Americans ideological preferences (which had been taken in 2011, but thats okay because ideology changes only very slowly), I concluded that Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders was likely to surprise on the upside at the start of his contest, and that, Sanders would probably be able to crush any Republican except perhaps Rand Paul, if he were to win the Democratic primaries. He is already surprising on the upside (though pundits havent yet caught on that Hillarys a dud), and so I am now predicting that Sanders will win, first, the Democratic nomination, and then the White House. But, first, to summarize:
The crucial net favorabilities were shown and documented in that May 12th article to be outright terrible for every candidate except Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, and Bernie Sanders; they were merely bad for Walker and Rubio; and they were probably marginally good for Sanders, but the latest poll hadnt even included Sanderss name, and so for him I extrapolated from ideologically the only candidate, who had been named, who was at all similar to Sanders ideologically, and this was Elizabeth Warren; and she had a slightly positive net favorability rating, which was by far the best of any of the named candidates (either male or female). Based on information that Ive been provided access to, she will not be entering the contest, and Senator Sanders will be the only progressive candidate running in the Democratic primaries.
The 2011 ideological poll showed that of the five ideological orientations that were named, the one with the highest net-favorability the ratio of positive to negative ratings by the American public, was Progressive, at 67%/22%, or 3.05; and the second-highest was Conservative, at 62%/30%, or 2.07. Like Senator Warren, Senator Sanders is one of the U.S. Senates three leading (if not the Senates only three) progressives. He clearly represents the most-widely-shared ideology: progressivism. If he wins the Democratic nomination, then the nation will be in for its first clear ideological choice since 1932 in a two-major-Party contest between a progressive Democrat versus a conservative Republican. That time it was FDR versus Herbert Hoover.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/06/my-prediction-bernie-sanders-will-win-the-white-house.html
DrBulldog
(841 posts)An outstanding speech - without a teleprompter - that tells everyone in plain blunt language everything you would want to know about Bernie's positions and how he feels about them.
And guess what? Today, AGAIN in Keene, NH, he did it ALL AGAIN!
Every time on every issue he has stood for years, without ever flip-flopping, on the side of history. He is a VERY RARE MAN.
yuiyoshida
(41,874 posts)maveric
(16,448 posts)I'm in SoCal and you never hear a word about Bernie out here.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Maybe longer. I think he is about to tap into the unspoken rage of the people. And the best thing about that is people will stop being enraged, they will start getting even and in a good way. I love it, he has a positive message and people are responding to that.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)God, I hope you are right. I am so ready for him to help change this country to a forward thinking country.
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)can win the presidency. And American Pharaoh just did it going away. So will Bernie.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Kevin from WI
(184 posts)A little early for predictions. Bernie has my vote, but I had to laugh when I saw the post. That's who I want for president, but we will have to see once primary season starts if his message resonates with the country. Let's hope so.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)Do We The People look like corporations? No? Well maybe we would like a little representation here too. I know .....but we sorta would like to try a little of that democracy stuff for a change. Who knows, it could turn out that we like it!