Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont announced his candidacy this morning. He ran a good race against Hillary in 2016, but fell short. This time the field is much more crowded, so who knows? I like Bernie, but it seems to me that the Presidency is such a difficult job and running across the country to campaign for 18 months is so exhausting, I wonder if a younger person would be more up to it all? Anyway, I wish him well.
Run, Bernie, Run... Can he win the Dem nomination?
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I preferred Bernie to Hillary and Trump. There are already other Democatic candidates that i'd prefer to Bernie (and I also think they would fare better in the general election). Nothing wrong with him throwing his hat in the ring again, though.
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I also preferred Bernie to Hillary and Trump. Some Hillary supporters no doubt blame Bernie voters who did not vote at all in the fall of 2016 or who voted Third Party like myself for her loss, but that is too simplistic of an answer for her defeat.
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Bernie's probably the favourite considering his major polices are popular with the majority of the nation and he has a strong base in the country. I'd say he's followed by Biden but my understanding of American Politics is limited due to not living there.
I'd probably vote third party such as the Greens if I was an American but sadly the Electoral system really only produces two parties and thus my vote could support the party I like the least.
I'd probably vote third party such as the Greens if I was an American but sadly the Electoral system really only produces two parties and thus my vote could support the party I like the least.
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Popular with the far left but, he would need more than that to get elected.
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I just love how people think that Bernie's Far Left. He isn't even centre left, he's a centrist at best. It just because America system have two quite right wing party that makes the most normal candidate possible look like a radical. In my country based on the policies his spoken in recent years, he'd either be a Liberal Democrat (the centre party in the UK) or a Blairite which is the right wing faction of the Labour party (which is a normal left wing party in the UK).
It's quite upsetting that America probably won't ever get a real left-wing party.
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