# CNN headline - If you want to know why Bernie is still running, look at the election of 1912 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054 "2020-03-07T16:34:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/1 "2020-03-07T16:34:06Z")
Bernie was running in 1912? ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/2 "2020-03-07T16:41:29Z")
ETA - bad attempt at a joke. I woke up, still half asleep, saw the headline and posted. No option to delete. This board is like talking to your wife. Once you’ve said something, you can’t take it back ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/3 "2020-03-07T17:47:25Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > This board is like talking to your wife. Once you’ve said something, you can’t take it back And what’s _that_ supposed to mean?? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/4 "2020-03-07T17:59:57Z")
Literally nothing about this thread has gone well, from the incoherence to the ETA that’s not actually an edit. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/5 "2020-03-07T18:01:54Z")
That headline struck me this morning too. The article doesn’t illuminate one bit how the election of 1912 explains why Bernie is still running. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/6 "2020-03-07T19:49:35Z")
Clickbait, in other words ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/7 "2020-03-07T19:59:03Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Literally nothing about this thread has gone well, from the incoherence to the ETA that’s not actually an edit. How does a thread go bad after a couple of responses? 🙂 Ok, ETA was not an edit, it was an explanation. “explanation to add” and “edited to add”. We need a new acronym for the former. How about FWS - forget what I said, I was rambling. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/8 "2020-03-07T20:04:30Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > And what’s _that_ supposed to mean?? You get into an argument with your wife, and little things that bother you about her are exaggerated and you say things you don’t really mean, or at least don’t mean as intensely as stated, but once they are out there, you can’t really take them back. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/9 "2020-03-07T20:38:58Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > That headline struck me this morning too. The article doesn’t illuminate one bit how the election of 1912 explains why Bernie is still running. OK then, how about this:If you want to know why we’re still in Afghanistan, look at the War of 1812. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/10 "2020-03-07T23:50:01Z")
I haven’t read the article, but contrasting Bernie Sanders with Theodore Roosevelt is not something that would occur to me off the top of my head. Biden as William Howard Taft–OK, I might buy that, but Trump as Woodrow Wilson?? Yeah, they’ve both shown a nasty racist streak in them, but Wilson was an educated man (President of Princeton University) which is more than I am willing to say about the present resident of the White House. So I think I’ll pass on this bit of speculation. Guess they had to get all the spaces filled with something this morning. IMHO as always. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/11 "2020-03-08T01:04:17Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > You get into an argument with your wife, and little things that bother you about her are exaggerated and you say things you don’t really mean, or at least don’t mean as intensely as stated, but once they are out there, you can’t really take them back. I think you got wooshed. Quicksilver was being the wife. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/12 "2020-03-08T02:14:56Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > That headline struck me this morning too. The article doesn’t illuminate one bit how the election of 1912 explains why Bernie is still running. What happened in 1912 was two guys from the same party fought each other and both refused to drop out. Both of them lost and the guy from the other party ended up winning the election. It’s easy to map this same situation out with Sanders, Biden, and Trump filling in the roles but it doesn’t explain why Sanders would want to repeat what happened. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/13 "2020-03-08T03:39:37Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > What happened in 1912 was two guys from the same party fought each other and both refused to drop out. Both of them lost and the guy from the other party ended up winning the election. > > It’s easy to map this same situation out with Sanders, Biden, and Trump filling in the roles but it doesn’t explain why Sanders would want to repeat what happened. Yeah, that was my take. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/14 "2020-03-08T14:59:29Z")
Bernie’s health is so good, he feels like a bull moose. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-headline-if-you-want-to-know-why-bernie-is-still-running-look-at-the-election-of-1912/849054/15 "2020-03-08T21:58:16Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Bernie’s health is so good, he feels like a bull moose. “Time to make your speech, Senator. Here, let me hold your eyeglass case and that copy of the speech for you.”