"if Democrats run an establishment candidate [Clinton] they are going to lose" against Donald Trump

[imagine2015]

Posted on Mar 10, 2016

At the Democratic debate in Miami on Wednesday, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton each claimed he or she would be the best candidate to run against Republican front-runner Donald Trump in the general election.

To determine who’s right, “Democracy Now!” hosted a debate between Nathan Robinson, editor of Current Affairs magazine, and professor Alan Draper of St. Lawrence University.

“Hillary Clinton is not well positioned to capture the particular national mood at the moment, which is an anti-establishment mood,” said Robinson. “And if the Democrats run an establishment candidate in an anti-establishment election cycle, they are going to lose.”

Draper cited the fact that Clinton has been under the scrutiny of the press for far longer than Sanders and is thus unlikely to have any skeletons in her closet that we can’t already guess at.

A transcript of the exchange follows.

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/video_hillary_clinton_or_bernie_sanders_who_can_stop_trump_20160310

[leftofcool]

1. I guess they haven't seen the brand new poll out today.

[imagine2015]

3. And how does Bernie do in that poll?

All previous polls show Sanders doing better than Clinton against any Republican candidate.

Let's see some more polling that includes, rather than excludes, Sanders.

OK?

[PonyUp]

2. But Bernie supporters will get the blame. nt

[MisterP]

5. 11 Governors, 13 Senators, 69 Reps, 913 state seats later, it's quite clear that the DNC

has no MOTIVE to win: if they win, they have influence; if they lose, they can blame the voters and play underdog and get lots of monay

[HooptieWagon]

4. She's still under two separate ongoing investigations...

So obviously there's still some vetting going on.