Probably the only state he can win besides New Hampshire, Maine, and Utah.
Utah!?!? Are you talking Dem primaries or the general election? I’m pretty sure there aren’t a lot of Democratic Socialist Mormons.
In the primaries-Utah is one of the very few states where Sanders is genuinely competitive.
As of the current moment, Bernie Sanders is leading a Fox News poll with 46% vs. Trump’s 24% and others lower on the poll.
http://nation.foxnews.com/poll/2015/12/02/if-election-were-held-today-who-would-vote-for/
Looks like we have voters from about 5 states weighing in so far.
ETA: Sorry, 6 states. There are 3 votes in from Ohio. Unless I’m misreading that map.
But there are 55260 votes.
Which is a pretty meaningless figure, because it’s just a public poll on a website. Polls based on which side spams the site with the most votes are not very meaningful.
If a Fox approved candidate was leading, you can be assured they would be Trump-eting that news.
And they’d be just as wrong to do so.
yawuntz
December 24, 2015, 8:28am
710
I think Bernie may have delivered the best comedic killshot against Trump to date. This is like the proverbial flaming bag of poop on the porch. What do you do? Let it burn? Or stomp on it? If you’re Donald and your relationship with women has been called into question - you’re gonna stomp on that flaming bag of poop.
I’d love to see him go after Bernie, who’s got nothing to lose.
Chronos
December 24, 2015, 4:00pm
711
That depends… was the poop in the flaming bag from men or from women? Because if it’s a woman’s poop, Trump doesn’t want to talk about it.
The Nation endorses Sanders.
We believe such a revolution is not only possible but necessary—and that’s why we’re endorsing Bernie Sanders for president. This magazine rarely makes endorsements in the Democratic primary (we’ve done so only twice: for Jesse Jackson in 1988, and for Barack Obama in 2008). We do so now impelled by the awareness that our rigged system works for the few and not for the many. Americans are waking up to this reality, and they are demanding change. This understanding animates both the Republican and Democratic primaries, though it has taken those two contests in fundamentally different directions.
MoveOn has also endorsed Sanders. FWIW.
The Top 5 Reasons MoveOn Members Voted to Endorse Bernie (with the Most Votes and Widest Margin in Our History)
With a record-setting 78.6 percent of 340,665 votes cast by the MoveOn membership, Senator Bernie Sanders has won MoveOn.org Political Action’s endorsement for president with the largest total and widest margin in MoveOn history.
MoveOn.org only endorses candidates based on votes by our members. Our only previous presidential endorsement during a Democratic primary was for Barack Obama, in early 2008. In 2004, no Democratic candidate reached the threshold for an endorsement.
Also, fwiw - I’ve put a Bernie Sanders button on my purse.
adaher
January 18, 2016, 8:37am
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Vox takes a look at Sanders’ health care plan. And utterly rip it apart:
Here’s the special part:
Sanders calls his plan Medicare-for-All. But it actually has nothing to do with Medicare. He’s not simply expanding Medicare coverage to the broader population — he makes that clear when he says his plan means “no more copays, no more deductibles”; Medicare includes copays and deductibles. The list of what Sanders’s plan would cover far exceeds what Medicare offers, suggesting, more or less, that pretty much everything will be covered, under all circumstances.
Bernie's plan will cover the entire continuum of health care, from inpatient to outpatient care; preventive to emergency care; primary care to specialty care, including long-term and palliative care; vision, hearing and oral health care; mental health and substance abuse services; as well as prescription medications, medical equipment, supplies, diagnostics and treatments. Patients will be able to choose a health care provider without worrying about whether that provider is in-network and will be able to get the care they need without having to read any fine print or trying to figure out how they can afford the out-of-pocket costs.
Sanders goes on to say that his plan means “no more fighting with insurance companies when they fail to pay for charges.”
To be generous, it’s possible that Sanders is just being cynical in his wording, and what he means is that, under his plan, individuals have to fight with the government rather than private insurers when their claims are denied.
But the implication to most people, I think, is that claim denials will be a thing of the past — a statement that belies the fights patients have every day with public insurers like Medicare and Medicaid, to say nothing of the fights that go on in the Canadian, German, or British health-care systems.
What makes that so irresponsible is that it stands in flagrant contradiction to the way single-payer plans actually work — and the way Sanders’s plan will have to work if its numbers are going to add up.
Behind Sanders’s calculations, both for how much his plan will cost and how much Americans will benefit, lurk extremely optimistic promises about how much money single-payer will save. And those promises can only come true if the government starts saying no quite a lot — in ways that will make people very, very angry.
According to journalist Harry Jaffe, Bernie Sanders is no socialist.
I released an enormous guffaw when I got to the no copays or deductibles part.
It’s a ridiculous position to take, but relatively harmless. That’s because, unlike some of the implausible GOP positions, it doesn’t harm the international reputation of the United States.
P.S. on my last post:
I do think that Sander’s absurd health care plan is a reason to vote for Hilary.
I keep vacillating between Hillary and Bernie. I like Bernie’s vision for the way things could be, but I think I still prefer Hillary’s vision for what is achievable. I’m a little nervous that he could whip up excitement for his entirely-unbaked healthcare plan and end up dismantling ACA without having a good replacement (like the Republicans).
I guess in pragmatic terms all I really think matters is for a Democrat to win the election and start reversing all the Republican padding/sandbagging of the judiciary over the past decade, maybe appoint a few supreme court justices. Let’s get that done, and then when we have a legislative supermajority we can push some legislation that will stick. That’s my analysis, FWIW
HMS_Irruncible:
I keep vacillating between Hillary and Bernie. I like Bernie’s vision for the way things could be, but I think I still prefer Hillary’s vision for what is achievable. I’m a little nervous that he could whip up excitement for his entirely-unbaked healthcare plan and end up dismantling ACA without having a good replacement (like the Republicans).
I guess in pragmatic terms all I really think matters is for a Democrat to win the election and start reversing all the Republican padding/sandbagging of the judiciary over the past decade, maybe appoint a few supreme court justices. Let’s get that done, and then when we have a legislative supermajority we can push some legislation that will stick. That’s my analysis, FWIW
My understanding is that “legislative supermajority” will not occur (at least for a few decades) because the House is firmly on lock for the GOP. What’s the plan there?