The Sanders Surge
 

I like Bernie and I will vote for him in the primary.

However I am afraid his support may be over-estimated due to the dedication of a relatively small number of followers. It may be like it was with Ralph Nader in 2000. He was drawing big crowds too, but in the end that translated into very few votes.

I would love to see his campaign catch fire and for him to win the White House. But realistically I don't see it happening.

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I'll vote for him in the primary as well. But in the end it doesn't matter to me much, as long as there's a Democrat in the White House nominating the next SCOTUS justice. The only thing I can see that will possibly save this country is a solid progressive majority on the high court. Congress is a joke. The Administrative isn't good for much outside of making the Congress look as bad as it is.

Agreed. Elections are based on money raised and Hillary and Jeb will easily outdistance their competition. Let's hope that Bernie can keep pulling Hillary to the left. As to the Republican field let's hope that Jeb gets derailed by the lunatics running in the primaries.

In the end it is the Scotus that is most important and this requires a Dem in the WH. Besides with a GOP president, every social program and education is going to be decimated even further.

People are getting tired of the status quo in the American style Liberal vs. Conservative atmosphere. The rise of the far right of late, the Tea Party and the Religious Right is evidence of this, but quite frankly............those people are backwards idiots. Who the hell really wants their lives to be made HARDER and their jobs LESS rewarding? Morons, armed to the teeth everywhere you go? Preachers dictating social doctrine and lawmaking? Screw that.

What's more is the fact that more Americans travel abroad now than ever before.......

And they see that the horror stories of life in Europe and the wealthier Asian countries, countries far more Soshialistic than America...........is actually not all that bad.

I've often thought that as the world grows smaller and more connected, that Americans would come to see a much more clear view of the outside world and the propaganda lies foisted upon us by the existing parties and industry stooges would slowly peel away.

Regards,
Dave

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

Mark Twain.

That implies that rock-ribbed conservatives have any interest whatsoever in vacationing overseas (other than all-inclusive Caribbean resorts, cruises, etc., where they get no inkling of foreign culture).

That's OK.

Us Liberals are going to keep the borders open so that the foreign culture can come here. :D

Why thank you TJ. :D

Indeed Merci Beaucoup.:)

Bernie Sanders Makes History By Raising More Money Than Every GOP Presidential Candid
 

According to The New York Times:

Mr. Sanders, the so************************t Vermont senator, running for the Democratic presidential nomination, has raised at least $8.3 million online through June 17, according to Federal Election Commission records. His campaign won’t file its initial report until July 15, but filings by ActBlue, the online fund-raising committee that serves as a conduit for Democratic campaigns, show that Mr. Sanders has brought in more money in May and the first half of June than any other Democratic candidate using ActBlue.
It’s likely that Mr. Sanders will report more than $9 million raised as of June 30, the deadline for midyear F.E.C. reports. That amount is larger than any Republican not named Mitt Romney raised in the first half of 2011.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/...candidate.html

Delightful news! But, for understandable reasons, the corporate media still won't give him a fair or even respectful shake.

Bernie Sanders Gaining in Iowa, Draws Crowd of 10,000 in Madison
 

http://www.alternet.org/bernie-sande...-10000-madison

National Poll Shows Bernie Sanders Beating Scott Walker, Donald Trump, Jeb Bush
 

Of course it's a CNN (Communist News Network) poll, so you have to take it with a grain of salt.

http://www.alternet.org/election-201...trump-jeb-bush

Ouch, that's gotta smart. :D

I can see Hillary as the VP, after all she has a lot experience standing subserviently next to a President. :)

I think he is raising too many expectations that cannot be met, like yesterday when he said he would propose a Constitutional amendment to repeal Citizen's United. Hillary has a better chance to win Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico, especially if she picks someone like Castro as VP.

Hillary is more likely to be able to legislatively get things done also. Will Sanders win Ohio, Virginia or Florida if say Bush or Kasich are on the ticket? Close call.

This is why the right wing is leading the country by it's nose while the left is forever compromising and backtracking from it's core principles.

I don't think Sanders can carry the top of a national ticket.

Not Sanders, I realize that but need to get HRC to change her campaign platform and for that she needs to come out of hiding. Bernie seems to be doing that effectively. Would I attend a Hillary campaign or listen to Pandora? ;)

Bernie Sanders Cited And Fined For Resisting Arrest
 

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/barrier...isting-arrest/

Good for Bernie. :)

It pays to have been on the right side of history.

Sanders trails Clinton by 6 points in New Hampshire
 

LClosin in!:)

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/04/politi...ampshire-wmur/

This makes me happy but it's important to remember that NH is right next door to Sanders' home state of Vermont so they know him well and may evenb regard him as sort of a "favorite Step-son".

I think he's doing well in Iowa as well.....far from home and the left....

I don't agree with Sanders on many things, but I like him - you at least know where he stands.

Unfortunately, Congress (both parties) would chew him up if he made it to the WH.

I don't think the Democrats would give him all that much trouble but if, as is likely, Congress remains in Republican hands (I won't say Republican control), any Democratic president will get the Obama treatment.

Interesting to see the Dems going for the seniors this time. I always thought it was smart of them to put out young candidates. I've often wondered why the GOP never tried the same strategy.

Everyone always complains about gridlock - this is the way our system was designed - I marvel at the genius of it. I prefer an executive branch of one party and a Congress held by another.

It is contentious, argumentative, and infuriatingly slow - but it is exactly that nerve grinding, snail's pace process that allows all sides to be heard (ad nauseam at times) and no policies that will affect the lives of millions to be made with undue haste in an arbitrary fashion.

It demands intelligent, driven people to make it work well - Bill Clinton and a Republican Congress could barely stand the sight of each other, but put that aside and passed a great many bills and balanced the budget.

Ayup. Ye olde three legged milking stool. Pssssst, we're going to flip the Senate in '16. :)

Unless you throw in an Executive Order now and then.;)

That's the Boehner effect and think of it as antitrust for the GOP. House has voted 54 times to limit, defund or repeal Obamacare. So how do you define insanity again? :rolleyes:

Do you approve of the way the Republicans in Congress have behaved toward the president?

They have not seen him as legitimate except on one issue...the TTP deal.
I suppose if he came out for Keystone they would welcome it. I still believe the debt default of 2011 and the Cruz shutdown would not have happened with a white President.

The idiot on Morning Joe was whining about how Obama was "equating" the hardliners in Iran with hardliners in the GOP Senate re the recent Iran nuke deal, forgetting of course that just a few days ago a Republican GOP candidate was equating Obama with the Holocaust.

I wasn't speaking of any particular administration. Th e EO can be and has been abused by many.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/e...-in-one-chart/

That's a lot of EOs, don't ask me how many were the right thing to do.

You got me there. :)
Thanks for the interesting bar chart.

28,000 last night in Portland!

15,000 the night before in Seattle.

And tonight it's Los Angeles!

The left coast loves them some Bernie!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...campaign-says/

The scuttlebutt has it that the alleged 'B.L.M.' protester who jumped Bernie in Seattle is a Sarah Palin minion. :rolleyes:

Bernie should come down to Orange county after LA. We are the home of the 'free range' Tea Partiers who drive around in Porsche, Audi and Mercedes SUVs.

He's in LA tonight.

What's that?

10 minutes away from you on the Interstate?

What the Hell do you want?

Him to come to your front door? :rolleyes:

LA = Hollywood, Orange County = Disneyland.
Therein lies the difference. And actually would be a lot faster to fly from Burbank to John Wayne airport to get to Orange County. :D