2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHere's why Bernie Sanders is going to have trouble with
voters that use hair products.
While his fly-away hair is seen as trendy among his more radical supporters, the fringe he sports causes raised eyebrows with more moderate voters.
Many Americans just aren't prepared to elect a President who occasionally appears with his hair sticking up. While voters are interested tangentially in policies and platforms, the fact that the Vermont Senator has been spotted with wind-blown locks is of great concern for many Americans.
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)that are follicley challenged, I believe this why his poll numbers will continue to increase with baby boomers and older generations as his name/head recognition grows.
Thanks for the thread, Aerows.
jfern
(5,204 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)Internet savvy, many were in school when the Internet came about, they're on the cutting edge of new information and ideas while being less wedded to old prejudices.
But the older people will and are coming around.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/3iwy6c/david_crosby_i_support_bernie_sanders/
Journeyman
(15,001 posts)and the great distrust so many citizens had for a politician who appeared in public without a hat.
Shameful. All told, it must have cost JFK dozens of votes.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)jmowreader
(50,447 posts)When you get elected president, they issue you a barber and a makeup artist. They'll fix him up.
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)Though I've read so many comments about his hair and today even one about his clothing.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)that the tag is unnecessary.
We've had a string of "Bernie will have problems with every voter under the sun" posts, and this was just satire.
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)that you know that I know it was.
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)"Please stop believing this candidate isn't viable. There must at least be one demographic where he isn't increasing his popularity?"
Aerows
(39,961 posts)is surging in the polls among people who eat crackers in bed.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)That doesn't even make sense - and it doesn't have to. Thanks for brightening my day with a good absurdity.
(Bedcrackers are overwhelmingly Republican, sir!)
PatrickforO
(14,514 posts)The 'fringe' of the 'fringe candidate' is a HUGE concern!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Trump has to do a combover. Bernie Sanders doesn't bother with that shit because Bernie badger just don't care!
merrily
(45,251 posts)suspect, to use hair products as well. Inasmuch as I had chosen Sanders because of his hair, and am a single issue voter, this bad move made me switch my support to Chafee. Forget metric: Chafee is the only candidate with the courage to part his hair in middle. You can't argue with that.
Paka
(2,760 posts)Let his hair stick up when his brain is so on target...who cares! GO BERNIE!
JustAnotherGen
(31,681 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)Then he MIGHT be electable.
olddots
(10,237 posts)more like Mitt or Perry .Nobody will ever be as presidenty as Saint Ronny but can't he atleast try ?
LWolf
(46,179 posts)Not the dreaded fringe!
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)/revision/latest?cb=20101204171933
treestar
(82,383 posts)doesn't undermine any valid criticisms.
Satire should at least be directed at something that exists.