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In reply to the discussion: So what's going to happen if next year's election turns out to be between Bernie and Trump? [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)14. Even if you believe that, the executive orders and actions would be substantially different. nt
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So what's going to happen if next year's election turns out to be between Bernie and Trump? [View all]
Kablooie
Aug 2015
OP
I understand your concern. Bernie would a much better shot against Trump than would Hillary.
merrily
Aug 2015
#1
Bernie wouldn't lose like Hillary would to Trump on issues like TPP and H-1B outsourcing
cascadiance
Aug 2015
#6
99% of the country are not engaged on either of those issues. The election will not turn on those
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#26
Why? You think people care less about their jobs being outsourced today than then?
cascadiance
Aug 2015
#31
NAFTA was a much more talked about issue then than TPP is today. There is close to zero buzz or
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#33
well, Reagan had been governor of CA. Trump has no experience at all governing.
CTyankee
Aug 2015
#38
His comfort zone is in the spotlight. He's an attention whore and where he goes, nobody knows.
Zen Democrat
Aug 2015
#58
Nobody could trot out that old Naderism about "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum" parties
Electric Monk
Aug 2015
#4
Nader stole that one from the George Corley Wallace/Curtis LeMay 1968 campaign.
Zen Democrat
Aug 2015
#59
I'm becoming more and more concerned about Trump every day. I agree with your analysis.
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#27
Let me know when Trump gets CLOSE to 28k coming to see him at a local venue someplace...
cascadiance
Aug 2015
#32
Let me know when Bernie is leading the race for the nomination nationally. Because Trump is.
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#47
Or so corporate america and their monopoly in media has a vested interest in us believing!
cascadiance
Aug 2015
#53
No, that doesn't work. Unless you are also discounting Bernie's rise in polls in NH and Iowa.
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#56
Oh yes, you're noting that he'd beat the rest of the Republicans for the nomination...
cascadiance
Aug 2015
#62
He's not surging faster than Obama. Obama was 10 points down on Hillary by now, not 30 like Bernie
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#63
And yet considering all that he is pretty close to both Bernie and Hillary in the polling.
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#60
Donald would protect us from foreigners but not the 1%. Bernie would protect us from our own 1% not
pampango
Aug 2015
#11
One thing we know! The winner would never get anything past Congress for 4 years!
Sancho
Aug 2015
#12
Even if you believe that, the executive orders and actions would be substantially different. nt
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Aug 2015
#14
I'm not so sure. I think lots of Dems now for Hillary would go over to Bernie.
CTyankee
Aug 2015
#40
I think you have to be a good chunk below average intelligence to vote for Trump.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Aug 2015
#13
A quantum singularity will open and swallow the nation from sea to shining sea. Game over.
randome
Aug 2015
#19
Even against one another, I'm not convinced either man could win an election.
Donald Ian Rankin
Aug 2015
#36
Trump is Sanders' dream opponent. He's a cartoonish symbol of everything Sanders talks about.
Marr
Aug 2015
#48
Once Trump plays the video his team would create of Sanders self describing as a Socialist
stevenleser
Aug 2015
#64
After Trump shoots himself on the foot repeatedly, it'll be a epic landslide of all 50 states for...
Picking Dem
Aug 2015
#51