Retromelon
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No; he states that as someone who has just referenced evidence of favorable competitivity for sanders against a likely opponent in a general election.
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PoliGAF 2015 |OT| Keep Calm and Diablos On
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You have to realize that A. It is early. To be fair that applies to Hillary too. However B. Bernie has not been scrutinized yet by the media or his opponents Democratic or Republican. C. If he got into a general election, his opponent whoever that will be will have massive amounts of money, opposition research and SuperPACs. D. Bernie has said he will not take the SuperPAC money. E. The result of these things will make those numbers change. F. Hillary has the advantage of having run before and all of her skeletons out early by then.
ErasureAcer
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He did. His name was FDR back then.
Christ you are fucking unbearable.
"Self-proclaimed"
BertramCooper
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Okay, is this certifiable proof that you're a troll?
Because if it isn't, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
ErasureAcer
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Coriolanus
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Are you trolling? Stupidity on both sides has been so high that i honestly can't tell if you're just trolling or saying something so grotesquely silly.
Retromelon
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How are you not enjoying this
BertramCooper
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If Sen. Sanders were indeed hiring astoturfers, he'd be hiring ones a helluva lot smarter than Erasure.
Officerrob
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I'd sooner be a Republican
I still remember his delusional proclamations of Kucinich's inevitable victory in '08, only now it's a million times worse because Sanders is doing way better than Kucinich ever did.
Some people like me have never heard of him despite some being here just as long as he has. I don't think he is a troll. I think he genuinely believes in Sanders even if it is profound devotion.
Oh, I'm well aware that he's not a troll.
NYCmetsfan
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You guys are too stressed out. It's Saturday. Get some whiskey and relax.
BTW Lana del Ray sucks
BTW Lana del Ray sucks
PhoenixDark
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Does that mean his name was Jefferson Davis in 1861?
Retromelon
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Everyone knows that
The real queen of pop is here to stay, and her impact, has been grand
JFK is like the Lana Del Rey of presidents - bad at what he does but got by on his looks.
I'm sitting here giggling. This is much more comedic than what's on TV.
{*goes to google Lana del Ray*}
Okay, confession: I can't tell any of these pop people apart. They all look the same. I googled that Katy Perry person a months ago; if you had told me that they were the same person, and that Katy had recently changed her name to Lana, I would've believed you.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
That's because he can't win a general election.
Remember when people on here were freaking out about Scott Walker? I kept saying over and over again: Wait until people find out about him. He'll crumble. Look at what is happening: people are getting to know him and his views, and he's crumbling.
Bernie Sanders is no different. Whether you want to admit it or not, the word "socialist" has such a negative connotation attached to it that a man who is a self-avowed socialist stands absolutely zero chance of winning a presidential election in today's USA.
Bernie "winning" GE polls means nothing. Once the negative ads started and "socialist" was attached to everything he said/did, it would be over--maybe even a 300+ electoral victory for the GOP competitor.
Don't let PopGAF hear you say that :lol
For real though, I agree. If it wasn't for the haircut there'd be no difference.
Also his stance on gun control will hurt him in the primary. Especially with a new mass killing every week, it seems. Hillary is going to hit him hard with it and do some real damage as a result.
I hope it was not at me lol.
Hillary going after Bernie on guns? absolutely. Forcefully with negative ads? doubt it. The media would rally against her. She has to lay that difference in a non attacking way.
ErasureAcer
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That was Rand Paul.
Officerrob
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I agree with this. Sanders supporters think he can simply explain away his brand of socialism, but I think that's vastly overestimating the intelligence of the electorate. Ads with Sanders proclaiming himself a socialist would be absolutely lethal
Nah, I liked the reactions to the Bernie-as-FDR.
And if Hillary went onto the gun issue, she'd be wise to copy Bernie's style, which I really do admire him on: he brings a topic up, states his position, and lets us, the listeners, come to our own conclusions. His stances speak for themselves. He does this without mentioning her, and lets others make the inevitable comparisons.
Hillary could bring-up her stances on gun control and not say a single word about Bernie. But his position would inevitably come up from other sources, and it would register in listeners' minds.
where does Bernie call himself a socialist at? I cant find any video on youtube. All I can find is this article from 2006
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/11/8/vermonts_bernie_sanders_becomes_first_socialist
NYCmetsfan
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Lana is the one that sounds like she wants to kill herself
Of course she won't use ads, she has no need to spend that kind of money. All she needs is a good debate performance and the right question, which given what Dems find important she will get at some point. All she really needs is for Bernie to answer truthfully and push a little bit to make sure it sticks.
Pizza Booty
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they did that already with obama in 08
What does Trump remind Political Historians of?
Enjoy: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/donald-trump-is-121814#ixzz3kG8b2TSb
Enjoy: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/donald-trump-is-121814#ixzz3kG8b2TSb
Officerrob
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There was no video of Obama saying he was a socialist, those are two entirely different things
Tarkus
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Beautiful. I couldn't have said it better myself.
Her pussy tastes like Pepsi cola
Officerrob
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Me and my 30 seconds on google found this, I imagine the GOP would find plenty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psp-r68mo8k
BertramCooper
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So what can we expect from Erasure once Bernie gets trounced in the primaries?
Having never encountered his unique brand of lunacy before, I'm interested to know. Will he just mysteriously disappear? Will he come up with a laundry list of excuses? Or will he acknowledge how profoundly wrong he was?
(That last one seems unlikely.)
Having never encountered his unique brand of lunacy before, I'm interested to know. Will he just mysteriously disappear? Will he come up with a laundry list of excuses? Or will he acknowledge how profoundly wrong he was?
(That last one seems unlikely.)
It's actually kind of a shame that Bernie labels himself a Democratic Socialist and made it a point to be an Independent. He could have kept his positions the same and his issue emphasis the same and just been seen as a very liberal Democrat of the Vermont variety. He could have avoided the socialist scarlet letter, all that would really be different is a tweaked answer or two. A small lie or a half truth perhaps, but no big deal.
"Are you a socialist modeled on the Scandanavian countries?"
"No, but that doesn't mean there's not a lot of things other countries do well, including the Scandanavian countries, that the U.S. can stand to learn a great deal from."
"Are you a socialist modeled on the Scandanavian countries?"
"No, but that doesn't mean there's not a lot of things other countries do well, including the Scandanavian countries, that the U.S. can stand to learn a great deal from."
benjipwns
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Sanders got an 8% rating from the NRA in 2012. 8%. His lifetime score was 0% as of 2002.
He's for banning semi-automatics, background checks and extending restrictions to gun shows.
He has the same 100% Brady Score as Hillary does.
She's just had the luxury of not having to actually vote on anything for a decade.
Attacking him on the gun issue would only be a sign of desperation.
He's for banning semi-automatics, background checks and extending restrictions to gun shows.
He has the same 100% Brady Score as Hillary does.
She's just had the luxury of not having to actually vote on anything for a decade.
Attacking him on the gun issue would only be a sign of desperation.
Since you've been here for six years and never encountered him until recently that one is most likely. We don't get many new people here from the gaming side.
ErasureAcer
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I've never been worried about Walker. Guy has nothing to stand on but failed policies.
People freaking out about him in the past just goes to show how off base their predictions are. I was not one of them.
People freaking out about him in the past just goes to show how off base their predictions are. I was not one of them.
Butts-a-plenty
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We're all well aware of how grounded in reality you are, yes.
Jack Remington
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Erasure is probably a top 20-25 poster in this thread.
How do we find out who has the most post?
benjipwns
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=20
Click the replies number next to the thread.
Code:
NeoXChaos 1,103
ivysaur12 1,010
benjipwns 996
NYCmetsfan 869
B-Dubs 726
Aaron Strife 687
PhoenixDark 604
BertramCooper 493
Coriolanus 489
HylianTom 477
Retromelon 432
Metaphoreus 418
Plinko 366
thepotatoman 360Aaron Strife
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When you're viewing the thread in community click on the number of posts and it should bring up a list of how many posters have made a post in the thread, ordered from most to least.
Edit: Good lord and I thought I posted a lot
I'm slacking.
eBay Huckster
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Man, my posting output's really fallen off a cliff in the past year.
Do I win a prize?
Coriolanus
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The prize is usually an internal sense of shame.
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