Before this election season, 71% of dems never heard of or had no opinion about Bernie.....

[Logical]

Yet he is still taking states from "inevitable" Hillary!

This shows how weak a candidate Hillary is. Like in 2008, an unknown is causing her to struggle.

[beachbumbob]

1. And 60% still don't care...

[Logical]

5. Lol, hill is really likable

[Trust Buster]

2. Anyone offering $18 trillion in free benefits can create a buzz. Whoop de Doo.

[wendylaroux]

6. Hey,that's what my shit head conservative uncle said!

[Demsrule86]

7. a broken clock...

you know the rest.

[wendylaroux]

11. really? f those people that need help!!!? is that it?

need to see a dr./dentist

food for their family

warm place to live

all of this is foolishness?? can't be done!!?? you don't want it done??!!

America has the money to help it's people!!

Please don't stay brainwashed or cruel,your whole life,you just may regret some day.

[Juicy_Bellows]

14. Apparently, they don't care.

I am really convinced that they never did.

[wendylaroux]

16. Jesus,makes me nauseous ,it really does.

[Demsrule86]

15. Hey I am for single payer...I always have been

However, we are not going to get it as long as the GOP has the House and until we have a population that wants it...Pelosi sacrificed her majority to get health care...I wish it had a public option. However, imperfect though it may be, it has saved thousands perhaps millions of lives. We tried for over a hundred years to get any sort of health care. America does have the money to take care of its own and should;but taxes have to be raised. You won't get the house to part with any money or raise taxes. Thus, we need someone who can work with our existing situation and get some stuff done and stand in the way of the truly awful things the GOP wants to do in the future. We literally stand between starving babies and the GOP...and not voting or voting for Trump is a vote to starve babies. We also need to stop the Gop from packing the courts or any chance of progressive change is dead. I have always thought Hillary can win the GE. I don't believe Bernie could after the swiftboating begins..there is a reason why the GOP wants Bernie. I actually voted for Bernie in Ohio...I knew I could because Ohio would never go for Bernie and I wanted to pull the party a bit left. I always intended to vote for Hillary in the General and so will my kids who like Bernie and are old enough to vote because they are not stupid and understand the Trump danger.

[wendylaroux]

18. Bernie would have pushed for it,H does not want it,we need a strong

voice for the people. H is anything but.

[Demsrule86]

43. He would not get it with the House as it is

But my fear with Bernie is that he can not win a general. This election because of the courts is way to important to lose.

[wendylaroux]

45. Well he could have,but it seems it does not matter now.Sad.

[Demsrule86]

47. It is sad.

That we are reduced to saving the courts when more Democrats voted for the house than the GOP and but for the gerrymander we would have had it. I think we will take the Senate...assuming Bernie does not blow up the party...say what you will...he serves no purpose now. I believe we are at the beginning of a truly progressive movement but not if we blow this election and lose the courts.

[wendylaroux]

48. no,he's come this far,he should do what he wants,like H did in 08

it won't hurt H,people have already made up their minds.

[rock]

32. None of that is foolishness

The foolishness is in thinking that Sanders can deliver it (along with everything elese he promises).

[wendylaroux]

35. With his election,he could have started the conversation towards

his ideas,helping the people. The majority of people already want single payer,

Bernie would listen to the will of the people.

H will not do this.She has never said any of these things Bernie has.

So,we will continue to slide further to the right in the dem. party.

[rock]

38. Yes, the interesting thing is

His approach makes some sense if he were talking an incremental approach (how Hillary does things) but I do not hear this from the Bernie camp, in fact, they tend to pooh-pooh incrementalism. These are (really) huge changes that Bernie is proposing.

[wendylaroux]

40. it all has to start somewhere.This party has got to go back to the left.

The little guy needs a champion again.It is bad,and not getting

any better for so many.

[Trust Buster]

10. Then you should listen to him. Sanders didn't create a buzz by NOT offering trillions in goodies.

[wendylaroux]

12. he wants to help people who need help,not give it to the rich.you don't agree?

[Trust Buster]

23. He sounds like a decent guy.

[lagomorph777]

22. Free tax breaks for billionaires, free drones for the military, free protection for banksters

Yeah, free stuff sucks.

[Warren DeMontague]

26. Its enough to make a sensible moderade "go galt", amirite?

Free Stuff! Get Off My Lawn!

[Trust Buster]

27. That wasn't the question of the OP. It was why Sanders became popular. I have 18 trillion reasons.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. That 18 trillion number is bullshit. Widely debunked.

The fact of the matter is it is disingenuous- to say the least- to claim that "18 trillion of free stuff" which includes suppsedly 17 trillion in health care spending, is somehow a logical asssement of the proposal when it negates the fact that a single payer plan would eliminate not just the overhead of the private insurance industry (estimated in some cases as up to 20% on top of the other costs) but would also take peoples' insurance premiums out of the equation entirely.

But according to the CDC, total health spending in the US is 3 Trillion dollars, more or less. So to believe this "17 trillion" bullshit, you would have to imagine that putting everyone in the country under a single payer plan would magically multiply total spending on health care costs by nearly SIX FUCKING TIMES.

health care isnt like grass-fed beef. People dont run out and get extra triple bypasses that they dont need just because now they can afford it. And if total spending would go up, what that means is there are a lot of people who ARENT getting the care they need, under the current arrangement.


But my main point is, "FREE STUFF WARRRRGGHHHBLLLLLL" is a boilerplate right wing meme, chief.

[Trust Buster]

29. Attach whatever number you wish. It would be disingenuous to deny that the benefits that

Sanders is offering is not what has lead to his new found popularity.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. What has led to his newfound popularity is a hunger for authentic leadership.

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. Actually the number matters

that is a difference of 15 T

The US budget is 3.8 Trillion. (as of FY 2015 by the way, according to the GAO)

So he was going to spend money at over three times, yes I rounded up to 4, so it is just under 4 times the size of the federal budget.
And you wonder why we have a good chuckle every time you post and show this level of yes, ignorance.

Like yesterday, I am going to offer to you one of these tunnel diggers, just avoid the mantle

It is hot.

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. RW talking point

[Go Vols]

42. Yep,put men on the moon too,crazy shit.

from 1932-1976, the Democratic Party as a whole was far more progressive. The issues and approaches advocated today by Bernie Sanders were considered mainstream Democratic ideas by Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson, and even many moderate Republicans. It was common to support strict financial regulation, liberal immigration, social services for the poor, and progressive tax policies.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-brasunas/there-is-a-moderate-republican-in-this-race_b_9704194.html

[TCJ70]

3. Nah...he won't win any state except Vermont!

Duh!

[lastone]

4. Yet we're going to nominate someone with higher negatives

Than any other Democrat in history, and then we're going to wonder what the f*** happened when Donald f****** Trump walks into the White House and paints everything gold. I'll come back here repeatedly and say I told you so it won't be fun.

[wendylaroux]

8. Sounds like a winning strategy to me!!

bravo

[brooklynite]

9. He's still losing, right?

The "started from nothing" line doesn't work anymore.

He;s a serious candidate running a serious campaign; he just doesn't happen to be winning it.

POlitics is a zero-sum game. Only ONE candidate can win. That person happens to be Hillary Clinton.

[Logical]

17. Hillary had EVERY advantage and still struggling. Very telling. Nt

[brooklynite]

20. Bernie continues to lose despite all those rally crowds; very telling...

[Eric J in MN]

19. It's not zero sum.

Bernie Sanders is a US Senator. He may be a more powerful US Senator next year than he was last year.

[brooklynite]

21. It's zero-sum with respect to the Democratic nomination for President...

I'll be happy to have him back in the Senate. And maybe I'll see him again at a future DSCC event.

[wendylaroux]

41. Oh he def. will be!!!!

[Eric J in MN]

13. Sanders is now 70 percent favorable, 18 percent unfavorable, among Democrats

...and Democratic-leaning independents:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/189299/presidential-election-2016-key-indicators.aspx?g_source=ELECTION_2016&g_medium=topic&g_campaign=tiles#pcf-dems

[NCTraveler]

24. He has had a lot of help.

“In Iowa, American Crossroads is helping Bernie Sanders by depicting Hillary Clinton as a Wall Street insider,” Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College, wrote on his blog.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-19/republican-operatives-are-trying-to-help-bernie-sanders

American Crossroads has spent money in numerous states. They take credit for how close Arizona was. They should. They gave Sanders a lot of help. Amazing Clinton is walking away with it considering republicans have been helping Sanders literally from the first state.

[randome]

25. 25 years in the Senate and hardly anyone knew who he was.

That's why he has fewer endorsements than Ted Cruz. His ideas are great but he is ineffective. That's the simple truth.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"Everybody is just on their feet screaming 'Kill Kill Kill'! This is -hockey- Conservative values!"[/center][/font][hr]

[reformist2]

34. And yet he beat Hillary in 20 states.

[randome]

39. He did a great job there, no doubt about it. His ideas are important.

And yet he lost the nomination. That's just the way things are.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"Everybody is just on their feet screaming 'Kill Kill Kill'! This is -hockey- Conservative values!"[/center][/font][hr]

[Logical]

44. LOL, yet took another state from ms. Inevitable.

[Sparkly]

30. I respected and admired him.

Now I've seen how much he really cares about the issues he claims to champion.

He's lost all my respect.

[dana_b]

46. well, that's more than some of us can say for Hillary n/t

[firebrand80]

33. Bernie wins the "most improved" ribbon nt