Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is no joke anymore, as he now leads Hillary Clinton by 22 points in New Hampshire and by 10 points in Iowa in the latest polls.
Sanders is seeing his support mounting, while Clinton seems to be quickly falling apart.
Of course, two states do not make a nomination, and Hillary is ahead of Sanders by a wide margin in South Carolina.
But it is clear that it is not only the Republicans who are rejecting the so called “Establishment”, but also the Democrats, who seem to want a genuine, authentic, consistent principle driven candidate, and Bernie Sanders is therefore, the “man”!
Whether Sanders can sustain his surge and go beyond Iowa and New Hampshire is the question, but right now, his performance is making Vice President Joe Biden, another person who is genuine, authentic, and and consistent principle driven, reconsider whether he has the “fire in the belly” to challenge Hillary Clinton.
Certainly, the Democratic nomination, once thought to be guaranteed to Hillary Clinton, as in 2008, is again up for grabs.
Last time, it was a first term African American Senator with an odd name of Barack Obama; this time, it is the longest serving Independent member in the history of Congress in both houses, a Socialist, a person of Jewish heritage with a “Brooklyn” accent, and would be the oldest President upon inauguration of any of the potential Presidential candidates, Bernie Sanders, who is the surprise of this campaign season!
Maybe Sander’s performance and popularity among Democrats mean that the Democrat party is coming to terms with the ideology of the majority of its constituency. Maybe the Democrats are really socialists now. After all Debbie Wasserman Schultz could explain the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist. The reason Wasserman Schultz won’t answer the question is because Democrats have moved so far to the left that there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the two anymore.
There is no real difference, and that is not a good path to a national election for the Democrats.
Socialism of the Bernie Sanders variety is no danger to anyone, and Socialism brought about Social Security, Medicare, Labor Laws, etc.
Socialism is NOT Communism, and liberals and progressives can live with Bernie Sanders’ views, and I do not know many who would give up “socialist” ideas like those above.
It is all right wing propaganda that Socialism was or is any danger to America, and it goes back to right wing propaganda of the McCarthy period in the 1950s.
Once again, Ariel is displaying his trolling rhetoric. This time it’s the GOP talking point that socialism is evil.
I am not saying Sanders is a communist. And I am not saying the Democrat Party is communist. I clearly said “Socialist”. So there is no need to defend Sanders or anyone from an accusation of being a communist when that is not what I have said. I simply said there is no difference today between a Democrat and an socialist. As a matter of fact Democrats should not be embarrassed about this communion with Socialism, like Debbie Wasserman Schultz seems to be. The Democrat party should embrace socialism if they believe it is good for America.
I will want to see more primary and caucus states’ polls. That’s because Hillary Clinton’s husband, 42nd president of the United States, did not win in Iowa and New Hampshire in 1992. (Mitigating circumstances: Iowa native son and U.S. senator Tom Harkin won on home turf. N.H. was carried by neighboring son, ex-Massachusetts U.S. senator Paul Tsongas who would die in 1997. Clinton went on to win most of the Super Tuesday contests.)
I would want to know about states in the Old Confederacy, especially with Florida. I would want to know about states in the Rust Belt, especially the quartet of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. And I would want to know about states out west, including California and Nevada, in the southwest state of New Mexico.
The 2008 contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, which resulted in Obama having won the Democratic presidential nomination, was much attributed to smarter strategy from the Obama camp. Clinton’s team honed in general-election battleground states. Obama’s team took nothing for granted, and even saw the value in the delegates from Republican presidential base states like Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming.
This has me wondering, if Sanders wins the 2016 nomination, would part of it be much of the same result as it was with a 2008 Obama.
REVISE:
“That’s because Hillary Clinton’s husband, 42nd president of the United States, did not win in Iowa and New Hampshire in 1992.”
That’s because Hillary Clinton’s husband, 42nd president of the United States Bill Clinton, did not win in Iowa and New Hampshire in 1992.