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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Thanks to Hillary we have the most progressive Democratic platform proposal ever. [View all]
joshcryer
(62,536 posts)14. Clinton has followed the polls.
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Thanks to Hillary we have the most progressive Democratic platform proposal ever. [View all]
KitSileya
Jun 2016
OP
Indeed Bernie is all wrong, and it's his own fault, he would indeed make the worst VP evah!
synergie
Jun 2016
#83
Why would Hillary choose someone who won't support or endorse her over someone like Warren
Sheepshank
Jun 2016
#125
Unlike the objective, peer-reviewed sources you yourself cited in making your allegation, yes?
LanternWaste
Jun 2016
#127
Given that he lost the nomination because of his failure to do such a thing, he's pretty much
synergie
Jun 2016
#85
If Bernie was nominee, all of those things would STILL be in the platform. He supported all of them
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#115
Clinton was there long before Sanders showed up in the party, and she's never bowed to the NRA.
lapucelle
Jun 2016
#17
She's doing fine because she has the more credible policy positions and millions see that
synergie
Jun 2016
#86
It takes an extraordinary person to know when to compromise and when to hold fast.
randome
Jun 2016
#28
Clinton disagrees with you. Nothing wrong in centrism but words have meaning.
George Eliot
Jun 2016
#47
30 years and tens of millions of dollars of lying Republican propaganda, perhaps?
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#169
Bernie doesn't know or care about Hyde or a great many other things, he's done
synergie
Jun 2016
#82
NO. How could she pick someone who wont even endorse her? Do you know what the role of
lunamagica
Jun 2016
#90
Nonsense. She has held the same positions long before Bernie stepped into the race. n/t
Lucinda
Jun 2016
#95
The DNC should let him write the entire platform - he's one of the few capable of keeping the party
Betty Karlson
Jun 2016
#121
Um, the voters rejected him, why should he get to write the platform, when the voters
synergie
Jun 2016
#161
I think Bernie would be wasted as a V-P. He can do far more for America in the Senate.
Cal33
Jun 2016
#132
He hasn't shown an ability to work with her that would be essential for any VP.
pnwmom
Jul 2016
#171
Apparently it's too difficult for some to actually look up Clinton's 2008 platform
lapucelle
Jun 2016
#18
Passive aggressive inanity seems to have supplanted impotent rage. I guess it's an improvement.
Squinch
Jun 2016
#146
Calling it inanity is generous of you. Active disengagement would be preferable but
JudyM
Jun 2016
#150
the current DEM platform wouldn't be as progressive if it weren't for Bernie and his influence
HumanityExperiment
Jun 2016
#23
The party platform resembles the issues Hillary has fought for her entire career
MaggieD
Jun 2016
#24
and yet my point still stands about the platform and HRC's history on not suppthose platoform issues
HumanityExperiment
Jun 2016
#44
it's not ok... the platform battle and paying attention to the facts matters...
HumanityExperiment
Jun 2016
#63
Fact are, the platform has been written. Hillary will run on it and that is that.
leftofcool
Jun 2016
#105
You're missing nuance if you don't understand Clinton's position on the minimum wage,
lapucelle
Jun 2016
#53
and after all that we got home foreclosures, less wealth, fewer jobs. Thanks.
George Eliot
Jun 2016
#65
By your reasoning, Sanders should have fought harder and held out for single payer in 2009
lapucelle
Jun 2016
#126
false, since the primaries began, Indies joined up for Bernie and are flocking back to indy
larkrake
Jun 2016
#116
Indy's don't settle, they go 3rd party and do their homework. Best concentrate working to get
larkrake
Jun 2016
#113
disagree. The 34% guess{high} are repugs that cannot tolerate Trump in the first place.They wont go
larkrake
Jul 2016
#170
very nuanced. Minimum should start at 15 and go up to 25 in places where the cost of living is high
larkrake
Jun 2016
#117
the 1972 platform was very progressive --see the economic justice and national healthcare parts
andym
Jun 2016
#49
I think he originaly was, and in any case the wording there was an attack on the arguments
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#164