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Bernie Sanders

n2doc

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2. And as always, the big question is, why don't people vote based on those principles?

Reply to merrily (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 7, 2015, 02:04 PM

Jul 2015

Because if they did, we would have a very different government. Instead, people seem to vote on name recognition, who the person at their church tells them to vote for, or who has the most ads on TV. Maybe things will be different this time.

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Bernie Sanders and �the American mainstream� [View all] n2doc Jul 2015 OP

Ahem. "Let's talk polls." merrily Jul 2015 #1

And as always, the big question is, why don't people vote based on those principles? n2doc Jul 2015 #2

Good question, but the answer deserves an essay or more, not only a post. merrily Jul 2015 #5

Sanders wins in Vermont n2doc Jul 2015 #6

IOW, based on your personal feeling, you are going to disregard all the polls in my post. merrily Jul 2015 #7

I don't disregard them n2doc Jul 2015 #8

Your prior post did disregard them. You said that people say things to pollsters they don't mean. merrily Jul 2015 #9

They can mean things but not vote based on them n/t n2doc Jul 2015 #10

People vote on what they think will improve the lives of their families. If they are promised that merrily Jul 2015 #11

Not the mainstream of the 1%, that's the problem on point Jul 2015 #3

Not one for nibbling at the margins Babel_17 Jul 2015 #4

This is all great except for the last paragraph. LWolf Jul 2015 #12