I'm on the fence about Sanders as Clinton's VP choice. On the one hand, it would seem the landslide to come would be locked in with him on the ticket. But I worry that he might become more of a distraction than an asset to the ticket.
Thoughts?
...and please spare me the "they both suck", Dems suck, Hilary is a war criminal, he should have won in the first place stuff. Plenty of threads for that. Really trying to get some rational thoughts here.
How about this: Is there really no one else on the bench? We have another Clinton and an old white man (Note, I'm an old white man), is there really no other voices to be heard in government? I'm truly disappointed in both parties ability to hold a finger in the wind, sense the discontent, and then present more of the same.
I'd like to see some younger faces and hear some different voices. Warren is a bit on the populist left side, but I'd entertain that. What if they picked some one from the Greens or the Libertarians? A true representative/cooperative effort? Imagine an Hillary / Johnson ticket.
Bernie Sanders may have lost his bid to become the Democratic nominee for the White House, but party members don't want the U.S. senator from Vermont to step off the stage.
More than three-quarters of Democrats say Sanders should have a "major role" in shaping the party's positions, while nearly two thirds say Hillary Clinton - who beat him for the nomination - should pick him as her vice-presidential running mate, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
I would love to see Sanders and his supporters create a new, third party. Maybe call it the Progressive Party. I'd also like to see the Tea Party element within the Republican Party become a legitimate fourth party. I'd like to see all this happen after this election cycle, but before the next one.
Bernie Sanders may have lost his bid to become the Democratic nominee for the White House, but party members don't want the U.S. senator from Vermont to step off the stage.
More than three-quarters of Democrats say Sanders should have a "major role" in shaping the party's positions, while nearly two thirds say Hillary Clinton - who beat him for the nomination - should pick him as her vice-presidential running mate, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
By Jillian Kay Melchior | 1:32 pm, May 16, 2016 Burlington College announced today that it will close on May 27 after it found itself unable to recover from “the crushing weight of the debt” incurred under Jane O’Meara Sanders, the college’s former president and wife of Bernie Sanders.
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders was awarded 49 more delegates in Washington state, according to district-level breakdown of the state’s primary results done by the Associated Press.
The Vermont senator won the March 26 primary in a landslide, taking 25 of the 34 delegates awarded on election day.
The rest of the state’s 101 delegates are awarded according to results from congressional districts, which had not been determined until Saturday. Front-runner Hillary Clinton picked up 18 of the remaining district-level delgates, to go with the nine delegates she won on election day.
I’m just being pragmatic here. Even the most fanatical Bernie Bro has to admit their hero knows nothing about the real-life challenges a president faces when undermining established foreign governments. The tough truth is that no amount of high-minded rambling about free college tuition can put machine guns into the hands of juntas sympathetic to U.S. strategic goals.
I suppose this is about the time when Bernie’s army piles on me for blaspheming against the almighty Sanders’ ability to support U.S.–friendly fascist regimes in strategically important nations. Before you take to your Twitter soapboxes, though, tell me this: Do you honestly believe that a single-issue candidate like Sanders understands the geopolitical complexities involved in turning a blind eye to the human rights abuses of the Saudi monarchy in exchange for economic and military advantages?
He just ain't one of the good old boys. He doesn't feed at the trough with the others and they fear that. The big question to me is are there enough racists misogynists and sheeple to elect a repub? That is one scary thought to me.
Women vote in the general in larger numbers than men (by several million).
also: http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-swing-the-election/ I really wish this one had a box specifically for women. There are ways that you can get the R's to the win here, but I just don't see them as realistic. It all comes down to who doesn't vote this year. November is still a long way off, but I don't see this being a smaller election.
He just ain't one of the good old boys. He doesn't feed at the trough with the others and they fear that. The big question to me is are there enough racists misogynists and sheeple to elect a repub? That is one scary thought to me.
Don't be sad. We don't understand either.