clinton vs. sanders your vote? — Page 70

Barney Santos para Presidente!

If Bernie is elected, he promises that the cafeteria will have Pizza EVERY DAY, hot tubs in the quad and no homework over the weekends!!!

Updated On: 2/4/16 at 11:37 PM

Jordan Catalano said: "A great campaign commercial for Clinton should just be a montage of everytime Sanders says "she's right".

A great campaign commercial for Sanders would be a montage of all the issues Clinton has flipped flopped on to be more in line with Sanders.

Bernie had an assembly in the gym this morning and promised that if he's elected class president, everyone will get free ice cream every day and the principal will pay for it!

Sanders Closes Huge Gap to Tie Clinton Nationally

February 5, 2016 | 12:00 pm

"Hillary Clinton has another near-tie on her hands.

A new Quinnipiac University poll shows her in a virtual dead heat with Sen. Bernie Sanders nationally, at 44-42 percent (well within the poll's 2.9 percent margin of error). The poll represents a major slide for Clinton over the last few months; she held a 31-point lead against Sanders in the same poll back in December.

The poll was conducted from Feb. 2-4 and is the first national survey of the race since Clinton narrowly defeated Sanders in Iowa, a contest that he has referred to as "a virtual tie." The Iowa race proved Sanders' ability to turn the excitement around his candidacy and large attendance at rallies into actual votes.

The New Hampshire primary, in which Sanders has a sizeable lead, is just five days away and could provide another boost to his campaign.

The new national poll also shows Sanders performing more strongly than Clinton in the general election -- though that contest is months away and much could change before November. The survey shows Sanders defeating Donald Trump by 10 points, Sen. Ted Cruz by four points and tying with Sen. Marco Rubio, who is also gaining ground nationally as establishment Republicans try to coalesce around him as a Cruz or Trump alternative.

Clinton, by contrast, would defeat Trump by 5 points, according to the poll, but ties with Cruz and loses to Rubio by 7 points.

https://news.vice.com/article/sanders-closes-huge-gap-to-tie-clinton-nationally

Updated On: 2/5/16 at 02:14 PM

I think Julian Castro would be a good choice for a running mate. My dream ticket is Sanders/Warren, but that's pretty unlikely.

Updated On: 2/5/16 at 08:18 PM

"My dream ticket is Sanders/Warren, but that's pretty unlikely."

I keep seeing people say this and I honestly don't understand it. I think both Sanders and Warren are amazing Senators, and that is where we need them most. How does pulling out two of the strongest liberal voices in the Senate, two voices that are very much needed there make sense. If Sanders gets the nomination I hope Warren has the good sense to stay put, because we need her right where she is.

Lavieboheme3090 said: ""My dream ticket is Sanders/Warren, but that's pretty unlikely."

I keep seeing people say this and I honestly don't understand it. I think both Sanders and Warren are amazing Senators, and that is where we need them most. How does pulling out two of the strongest liberal voices in the Senate, two voices that are very much needed there make sense. If Sanders gets the nomination I hope Warren has the good sense to stay put, because we need her right where she is. "

Agree 100%. I think it comes from this strangely myopic view we have on presidential politics in this country. The amount of attention the presidency receives is really disproportionate to the President's true power - especially his/her domestic power and especially his/her domestic economic power. Not to mention a VP. Do people calling for Warren as VP genuinely think a VP is going to have more power and more effectiveness than a very popular and influential senator? As for the presidency itself, let's be honest, beyond appointing federal justices and not starting another goddamn war, the President's greatest domestic role is influencer-in-chief. Which, yes, is important, but doesn't exactly change everything in the nation from the top down. It's fabulous that younger voters have been so energized by Bernie's campaign and whether they vote for him or for Hillary, if they remain completely disengaged from state legislature, governor and federal congressional races, and leave those elections to old, conservative people, then very little of Bernie's "revolution" or any meaningful amount of Hillary's "pragmatic progress" is going to happen.

Barney was funny on SNL!

After watching the televised GOP debate from NH last night, I wish the Dems had someone like Kasich in the mix. But, Hillary still gets my vote.

Poor Marco Rubio comes off like a high schooler responding to questions before a scholarship committee.

Updated On: 2/7/16 at 07:33 AM

What's it going to do to the Clinton campaign when Sanders starts doing rallies in big cities and his crowds are 4-5 times larger?

Got one eye on the Super Bowl game and the other on this thread.

Who would consider running with Sanders? I don't mean to disparage him but his negatives would become the talk of the general election within the two major parties and among indies alike. I'm not willing to label him a spoiler ala Ralph Nader but it's difficult for me to see a clear path to 270 for him and any running mate. What does intrigue me though is his tenure as mayor of Burlington, VT. That's government executive experience that's lacking in several candidates on both sides of the divide.

If he takes out Hillary, I'll likely come around. Why? Because if she can't defeat an avowed socialist with questionable party bonafides, then perhaps her detractors are onto something. This ain't her first rodeo.

No. But her lifelong devotion to championing women's rights--economically, socially and politically--does make her the better choice for female voters as well as male voters.

But you don't care about any of that. You just want to get sooooooooooo angry.

(And besides, you don't live here anyway, do you?)