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DemocratSinceBirth

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2. Remove the incendiary headline and it seems about right.

Reply to Bleacher Creature (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2019, 10:53 AM

Mar 2019

If you look at the top five candidates that are most left there isn't much difference between them. Inslee sticks out though. I can't believe he's that far to the right.

Six is the sweet spot.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Yahoo Finance with a ridiculous article fanning the "socialist" flames over our 2020 candidates. [View all] Bleacher Creature Mar 2019 OP

ridiculous rampartc Mar 2019 #1

Remove the incendiary headline and it seems about right. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2019 #2

I'll have to look at Inslee's climate policy. crazytown Mar 2019 #5

We are all reaping what Bernie sowed. Celerity Mar 2019 #3

All this for one to one and half point of difference on a ten point scale. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2019 #6

You are partially correct BlueFlorida Mar 2019 #7

In U.S., Socialist Presidential Candidates Least Appealing DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2019 #8

It is shocking BlueFlorida Mar 2019 #10

Maybe people think members of those groups aren't coming for their money. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2019 #13

+1 Celerity Mar 2019 #11

They don't like Elizabeth's wealth tax do they? crazytown Mar 2019 #4

I don't see anything wrong with the article BlueFlorida Mar 2019 #9

what is wrong with it is that NONE of them are socialist and yet it falsely labels many as such (or Celerity Mar 2019 #12

No one is labeled anything BlueFlorida Mar 2019 #14

none are socialist, and the blowback from that label is damaging as hell Celerity Mar 2019 #15

the very top main label sets up an entirely false dialectic by its very verbiage Celerity Mar 2019 #16

I may be naive BlueFlorida Mar 2019 #17

My whole issue is that Sanders, with his dodgy self-labelling, has drug the whole term socialism, Celerity Mar 2019 #18

I agree with your subject line BlueFlorida Mar 2019 #19

I also can relate to what you said too Celerity Mar 2019 #20