Looks like we FINALLY got some info about how Bernie performs against potential GOP candidates....

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36. The poll numbers show

besides possibly a mass stupidity in the middle of the electorate, that the Dems depend on new and enthused voters, groups
NOT unitive blandness, and the GOP desperately clings to the hate smoke of its increasingly Nazified base just to tread water with gerrymandering and fraudulent publicity. For the GOP it's as if the Know Nothings bonded with the Whigs for mutual survival. In history they both died out. The Dems simply do not go in for the kill.

For those that like to sleep better at night, it would be better to see a universal meltdown in the GOP clown show instead of the steady forty per cent they seem to get out of nowhere. i would like see rewarded enthusiasm for a real progressive agenda.

The poll looks decent but is obviously too early for "final" result accuracy. I think it is pretty safe at this point that another dynamic comes into effect with any "fall of the frontrunner" debacle. And that dynamic might not result in a crushing progressive wave. Which we need, but by the history probably won't get without a Hoover and a Depression and something like a surging Labor movement.

If Third Party Trump splits the vote it will be a rare moment when the bad guys unite to do themselves in, irrevocably. Bernie is under the usual test, the first painful steps to approach challenging either frontrunner or a national agenda. Long long ways to go, but the more publicity for a real public agenda the better.