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Bernie Sanders

merrily

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

Reply to n2doc (Reply #10)

Tue Jul 7, 2015, 05:21 PM

Jul 2015

and don't get it, they get pissed and throw out the incumbents. It's that simple. Also, they like to be able to trust what they hear from a candidate and they like a strong leader.

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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