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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I predict, this is the week Hillary lost the nomination. Bernie will be the nominee. [View all]Tommy2Tone
(1,307 posts)10. Will Bernie take back his support for the NRA? UPDATED
Last edited Fri Oct 9, 2015, 01:22 PM - Edit history (1)
That's the question.
Here a quote from a story in The Washington Post.
As a candidate in 1990, Sanders won over gun rights groups by promising to oppose one bill they hated a measure that would establish a waiting period for handgun sales. In Congress, he kept that promise. The dynamic served as an early demonstration that, despite his pure-leftist persona, Sanders was at his core a pragmatic politician, calculating that he couldnt win in rural Vermont without doing something for gun owners
There are other stories about the same thing but his supporters had rather play dumb and act like it never happened.
LInk: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-nra-helped-put-bernie-sanders-in-congress/2015/07/19/ed1be26c-2bfe-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html
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I predict, this is the week Hillary lost the nomination. Bernie will be the nominee. [View all]
reformist2
Oct 2015
OP
You got that right! Bernie would never join the GOP in the biggest fight against the American people
cui bono
Oct 2015
#22
Well, Bernie is not ANYONE but himself. And one of the best candidates we've had
sabrina 1
Oct 2015
#70
With numbers shrinking every month since a complete unknown entered the race, being beaten
sabrina 1
Oct 2015
#30
LOL, you have to go her website daily to know for sure where she stands on the issues.
reformist2
Oct 2015
#7
Wow, so it's 'wise' to take a position you don't believe in just to win an election?
sabrina 1
Oct 2015
#32
Maybe I wasn't clear. NH and Iowa are the first primaries. Lots of media focus
emulatorloo
Oct 2015
#44
I'm a Bernie voter, and I have a hard time believing he would win the nomination at this point.
C Moon
Oct 2015
#41
"I predict, this is the week Hillary lost the nomination. Bernie will be the nominee."
DemocratSinceBirth
Oct 2015
#72