Bernie Sanders

[Kathianne]

Jim has a point, we've been ignoring some candidates. I came across this and thought, 'Fresh fodder'. Although our discussions aren't always polite, especially regarding the last debate, one thing that debate highlighted is that there are some very smart and able men and a woman running for the GOP. On the other side? Hypocrits, liars, criminal:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/08/bernie-sanders-hypocrisy-watch.php


POSTED ON AUGUST 11, 2015 BY STEVEN HAYWARD (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/author/steven)

BERNIE SANDERS HYPOCRISY WATCH
In his rock-star tour of the Left Coast this week (except for the BLM groupies doing a poor rendition of the Pointer Sisters of the Left in Seattle), among Bernie’s “home run lines (http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-33573-the_13_home_run_lines_from_bernie_sanders_portland .html)” is the chestnut: “Men, stand with the women and demand pay equity. There is no defensible reason why women are making 78 cents on the dollar. That has got to change.”


Perhaps Bernie could start with his own Senate office? As The Free Beacon reported last year (http://freebeacon.com/politics/senate-dems-remain-on-front-lines-in-war-on-women/):



Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), who caucuses with the Democrats, was the worst (http://freebeacon.com/politics/senate-dems-betray-lilly/) of the gender pay gap offenders in the previous analysis. He remains near the bottom of the list, with the average female salary $21,730 lower than the average salary received by men in his office.


Oops. To paraphrase Glenn Reynolds, pay equity is for little people.


I’d be curious to see the pay scales for his campaign staff. Whaddyawanna bet that. . .

[Kathianne]

Hillary inevitable?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/12/sanders-surges-into-lead-over-clinton-in-new-hampshire-poll-finds/


Sanders surges into lead over Clinton in New Hampshire, poll finds<time itemprop="datePublished" pubdate="" datetime="2015-08-12T00:07-04:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 1.5; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background: 0px 0px;">Published August 12, 2015</time>FoxNews.com (http://www.foxnews.com/)


Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened up a shocking 7-point lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, according to a new poll released late Tuesday.


The Boston Herald-Franklin Pierce (http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2015/08/bernie_sanders_surges_ahead_of_hillary_clinton_in_ nh_44_37)University survey of 442 likely voters in February's Democratic primary showed Sanders garnering 44 percent of the vote to 37 percent for Clinton. Sanders' lead is outside the poll's plus-or-minus 4.7 percent margin of error.


Vice President Joe Biden, who reportedly is considering making a late entry into the Democratic race, came in third with 9 percent of the vote. Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, and former Rhode Island Senator and Governor Lincoln Chafee brought up the rear with 1 percent of the vote or fewer.


The poll continues a trend of Sanders closing what once seemed to be an insurmountable deficit against Clinton in the Granite State. A WMUR/Granite State Poll released last week (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/05/poll-shows-clinton-in-statistical-tie-with-sanders-in-new-hampshire/) showed Sanders had pulled into a statistical tie against Clinton. By comparison, the self-described socialist Sanders trailed former Secretary of State Clinton by 36 percentage points in a Herald-Franklin Pierce poll from March.


The new poll was released hours after Clinton announced she was turning over her personal e-mail server to the Justice Department amid an ongoing investigation into whether she improperly sent or stored classified information on the server, which was based at her New York home.

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[Black Diamond]

Do we date assume Sanders would lose to the Republican nominee?

[Kathianne]

Do we date assume Sanders would lose to the Republican nominee?

Can only speak of my feelings at this point in time. No.

Few thoughts gives my reasoning.

http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthread.php?51029-A-Few-Thoughts&highlight=thoughts

[Black Diamond]

Can only speak of my feelings at this point in time. No.

Few thoughts gives my reasoning.

http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthread.php?51029-A-Few-Thoughts&highlight=thoughts
Yikes. Now he is an *admitted* socialist. Is he really left of Ossiah?

[fj1200]

Do we date assume Sanders would lose to the Republican nominee?

In a strictly two-party race? Yes. Provided our candidate isn't crazy tunes.

[PixieStix]

Hillary inevitable?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/12/sanders-surges-into-lead-over-clinton-in-new-hampshire-poll-finds/

Hillary has been inevitable for 20 years :laugh: