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Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: A cautionary note about the excitement over the polls showing Bernie up, way up over [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)10. Precisely!
The Biden "support" is not really support for a candidate but rather a movement away from Hillary because Biden is not running. He has not yet announced, and he is a bit late to the game if he does. I don't think he will make a real impact on the primaries should he announce.
And I don't think he will mount a serious campaign. There is not time before February. He does not have enough spontaneous support.
Bernie has the support.
Hillary is just the well known and familiar. She is not the candidate that the majority of Democrats agree with, not in my opinion anyway.
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A cautionary note about the excitement over the polls showing Bernie up, way up over [View all]
JDPriestly
Sep 2015
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I agree. But what happens to the support now being attributed to Biden if Biden does
JDPriestly
Sep 2015
#2
Thanks. I just don't want Sanders supporters to be disappointed if there is a rise
JDPriestly
Sep 2015
#7
My politics partner, a pragmatic centrist, is Biden first, Sanders second and ABH third.
merrily
Sep 2015
#4
Just read a pollster's musing that Biden and Sanders would split the white male Democrat vote
Hortensis
Sep 2015
#28
Well, if Bernie wins we'll get see how the full treatment from the GOP "improves" HIM. Let's not
Hortensis
Sep 2015
#31
True, though Ann Coulter says she does not want Republicans to run against him. She wants them to ru
merrily
Sep 2015
#32
Personally, I think both Bernie and Hillary would slice and dice anyone in the GOP field, but
Hortensis
Sep 2015
#33
Thanks for pointing this out. The take away from this is that we should never get complacent,
GoneFishin
Sep 2015
#15