Coriolanus
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So was running with a black guy whose motto was "hope and change" instead of Hillster "The Status Quo" Clinton.
Coincidentally, Gore and Kerry were the Safe Bets. As was Mitt. How well those turned out.
Bernie Sanders is officially running for President as a Democrat
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So was running with a black guy whose motto was "hope and change" instead of Hillster "The Status Quo" Clinton.
Coincidentally, Gore and Kerry were the Safe Bets. As was Mitt. How well those turned out.
Fenderputty
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He got my vote over Hillary
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If it's Sanders or Clinton on my primary ballot Sanders is getting the vote from me.
Murder. She Wrote
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One of the best senators america has at the moment and if he miraculously beats hillary in the primaries I will vote for him. I can't vote in the democrat primaries cuz i'm registered as independent 
Good Job Bob
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I H8 Memes
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I was planning on voting for whatever turd the Republicans rolled out. But damn if this doesnt change things.
Fenderputty
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This post makes zero sense. Maybe even less than zero.
Do you mean you're going to hate-vote in the presidential election? I don't so how else someone can consider a socialist like Sanders as an alternative to any of the Republican lunatics.
PlayALLtheGames
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Yup, that's about right.
And reason Bernie won't get the nomination. All this shit about the Koch brothers planning to raise 1 billion for the Republicans; the Democratic nominee is going to need money.
We need to get the god damned money out of politics.
I H8 Memes
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A couple of years ago I started voting for whatever I consider to be the worst candidate or the worst result for an amendment. Voted for Scott! Voted no on Amendment 2.
Bernie Sanders is one of the only politicians in America I will vote for in good faith rather then to screw over America/Florida.
Bernie Sanders is one of the only politicians in America I will vote for in good faith rather then to screw over America/Florida.
Box of Kittens
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There's a lot of myth making when it comes to 2008, from Obama coming out of nowhere to Hillary supposedly having what seemed like an insurmountable lead in the polls. Now certainly Obama was an unknown figure before 2004 and his rise was very fast, but by the time he became a candidate for president he was quite well known (and liked). Clinton's poll numbers were never that strong. At this point in 2007 she was polling in the mid 30s, with Obama in the mid 20s, and Edwards around 20. There was a pretty large "anybody but Hillary" contingent that eventually coalesced around Obama. Her Iraq War vote was a big sticking point for a lot of Democrats for one thing.
My suspicion is that the revisionist history is based on two factors (1) Clinton's 2008 campaign strategy involved portraying her nomination as inevitable (2) plain old wishful thinking.
2008 is not a good analogy for 2016. Clinton has been consistently polling in the 60s for the Democratic primary and she never got numbers like that in 2008.
RageWaffles
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I'm tempted to change my party registration (currently: "none") to Democrat so I can vote for in him in the primary. Doubtful he'll have much of a chance, but god do I want him to prove me wrong.
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Walmart should run for president.
Yellowtail
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Those HRC donations are from people who work at the corporations; they're not donations from the corporations themselves.
I consider myself a destructive person that likes carnage, but thats just going too far.
ilikesanta
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What a poor time to announce you're running for prez in the middle of the Baltimore protest. The fact I found out about this on Neogaf, is not a good sign, and I payed attention to the news today.
unholyrevenger72
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He's doing Ozymandias style. Make things so bad people will want to change drastically.
Also yeah, Bernie has my vote.
Bam Chowder
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I admittedly did not know much about Sanders, but after reading up on him, he has my vote. Hell I feel motivated to volunteer and support his campaign
Fox Mulder
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I'd vote Bernie.
Hillary is a less enthusiastic vote for me than Kerry was.
Hopefully he at least gets her to adopt some of his platform, but I doubt it.
Hillary is a less enthusiastic vote for me than Kerry was.
Hopefully he at least gets her to adopt some of his platform, but I doubt it.
JesseEwiak
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Hillary's nascent economic plan is already to the left of her in 2008.
http://www.vox.com/2015/1/16/7557803/inclusive-prosperity-hillarynomics
Outdoor Miner
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I'm pretty sure he hasn't formally announced.
The First Gentleman.
You can fall down a hole quickly, but it takes a longer amount of time to climb out of it.
The first bro, fo rizzle dawg.
A Human Becoming
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I'll volunteer for him during primary season.
Lord_Byron28
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Yeah I'll vote for Sanders as well in the primary.
FrenchToastDisciple
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Good, now I have a reason to show up to the caucus.
HalfBakedProphet
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My sword. You have it
Haeralis The BRave
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I hope he gets the nomination, since he'd lose in a landslide and prove that socialism isn't popular in America. If America elects a self proclaimed socialist to the White House, then it might be time to move somewhere else IMO.
Your making a big assumption there. x)
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Aaron Strife
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Well obama's supposedly a socialist and look what happened to him
Enjoy looking for a country you'd actually want to live in that has less socialism than America.
I'm conflicted. I don't like Clinton, I sure as hell don't want her as president, but she's better than any Republican that we can get. I like Sanders, but there is no chance in hell he will win either the primary or the general election. I feel like him trying to drag Hillary left will only weaken the chances of her winning and ensure a republican gets in instead.
What I want to vote vs. what I should vote... god dammit.
What I want to vote vs. what I should vote... god dammit.
It's a good thing I can't vote in the primaries as an independent, I don't have to make that choice. 
unholyrevenger72
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Why do we fall down? To learn to pick ourselves back up again.
Beelzebufo
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I don't really agree with most of what you're saying, but I'm sure most people would. You're right, we'll have a Republican president of he gets the nomination.
ElectricThunder
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Step 1 comes down to if they actually let him/actually have more than 1 proper debate or so---otherwise he'll get shafted just as dramatically as Gravel and Kucinich did early on while the media essentially edged themselves for the Hillary v Obama v "Holy Shit, you did what?" Edwards circus. He can't drag her to the left outside of some kind of dramatic public exchange that gets on the record, to say nothing of the vast funding canyon and interests separating them.
Still, here's hoping other interesting folks use this as a springboard to take an honest crack at it---though at this point I have no idea who they'd be as Gravel may well be he only bolt from the blue equal to the then standing history of Kucinich before he got district'd....not exactly a fertile field of characters for candidates given the deplorable state of it all.
Still, here's hoping other interesting folks use this as a springboard to take an honest crack at it---though at this point I have no idea who they'd be as Gravel may well be he only bolt from the blue equal to the then standing history of Kucinich before he got district'd....not exactly a fertile field of characters for candidates given the deplorable state of it all.
BuggyDClown
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Fuuuuck.
Sanders/Warren 16' I'm in.
Sanders/Warren 16' I'm in.
timetokill
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A waaaaaay more compelling candidate than Hillary. Not even close.
Grover Cleveland
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The USA leans further right economically than the vast majority of developed countries.
You might be SOL trying to escape socialism by running from the States.
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