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In reply to the discussion: So does it come down to this - the best candidates for our principles "can't win", so we must [View all]bigwillq
(72,790 posts)12. I won't settle
I will vote for the candidate of my choice, win or lose, D,R,I, write-in.
I live in CT, it doesn't make much difference anyway--DEMs win most of the time in my state, so it's sort of a win-win anyway.
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So does it come down to this - the best candidates for our principles "can't win", so we must [View all]
NRaleighLiberal
May 2015
OP
since you have said this repeatedly, so, if sanders does not win, you advocate NOT voting dem?
seabeyond
May 2015
#31
Sanders is the greater candidate for me - but there is a daily barrage of
NRaleighLiberal
May 2015
#3
That would only be true if Senator Sanders ran in the general election as an Independent
leftofcool
May 2015
#4
Real people are already suffering, and many of us have been holding our noses and voting.
ladyVet
May 2015
#65
You seem to put much more value in what you read on the internet than your preferred candidate.
Tarheel_Dem
May 2015
#7
The game is rigged for those with huge money - and since the money controls the media...
NRaleighLiberal
May 2015
#22
The only way to change the rules is to change the Supreme Court or the Constitution
brooklynite
May 2015
#39
National elections have a broad electorate, thus very left candidates stand no chance.
MohRokTah
May 2015
#24
They CAN win, IF we stop listening to this nonsense which we have been doing for far too long.
sabrina 1
May 2015
#40
it's ironic that may duers who bash poor people for voting "against their interest", support
Doctor_J
May 2015
#41
Part of being the "best candidate for our principals" is being able to implement those principles.
NYC Liberal
May 2015
#44
Liberal? She and Obama or corporate conservatives and global interventionists. What is moderate?
TheKentuckian
May 2015
#53