Sanders will run in 2020 if he's still kicking

[Jim Lane]

50. I would vote for Bernie in the primary over Booker, Cuomo, and their ilk.

And I would vote for Bernie as the Democratic nominee in the general election over any conceivable field of opposing candidates.

My guess, however, is that he won't run. We're likely to have a fairly large field. Bernie will support a progressive who's younger than he is and who has some of the same strengths but without the weaknesses (such as age and the smear campaign using the word "socialist" in every sentence).

BTW, as to the comments in this thread implying that he wouldn't even be allowed to run, is that what you folks are actually suggesting? Some people seem to think that the DNC can issue an edict "BERNIE SANDERS HATH NOT SWORN FEALTY AND HENCE HE SHALL NOT APPEAR ON ANY PRIMARY OR CAUCUS BALLOT" and 50+ election officials around the country will leap to obey. I don't think it works that way. Suppose a group of registered Democrats, in a state that has partisan registration (which Vermont doesn't, BTW) want to be candidates for the position that's at issue in the primary, namely that of delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Can the state party keep them off the ballot because they've announced that, if elected, they will take actions (voting for Bernie) that the party oligarchs don't like? I've never seen any legal analysis of that. It seems to be just an implicit assumption of the anti-Bernie crowd.