Does Anyone Think Sanders Can Win?

[BigdaddyQH]

Let's hear it rkelly, khicks, scum and all of you other Liberal Socialists people in here. Does anyone of you actually think that Bernie Sanders has a chance to win the Libocratic nomination? Let's take a look at a few polls. Info from Real Clear Politics:

2/24: Texas. Clinton 56, Sanders 40.
New Jersey. Clinton 55, Sanders 32.
Maryland. Clinton 58, Sanders 28.

2/23: Georgia. Clinton 57, Sanders 29.
Ohio. Clinton 55, Sanders 40.

The fact is that Sanders only leads in his home state of Vermont, and is in a close race in Massachusetts. He is far behind in every other state. Now do any of you Sanders supporters have enough guts to tell us how your candidate wins, or are all of you nothing but a bunch of chicken s**t cowards who have to post your garbage in here because you know that if you dare say any of it in public, your tail would be wrapped around your shoulders.

[DwightShrute]

BS is preaching mostly to the millennials whose minds aren't fully developed yet. Most just left home recently, where everything was free, they accumulated participation medals and everything seems so easy. No wonder they foolishly believe this man's nonsense. The real world is a much different place.

[d2bets]

No, he can't.

[jtoler]

QH youre such an after the fact guy, hence the huge moneylines, gamble a little bro. You didnt say this back in December or even January. Im sure youll have Saturday's weather report on Sunday also.

[titanium777]

Rubio still has a better chance of winning the GOP, than Sanders for the Democratic Party.

Santa Clause Sanders is finished.

[DABOOK]

How Republicans Get Americans To Vote Against Their Own Self InterestThe general stigma and opinion of the majority of the American people is that the Republican party and their policies favor the wealthy. If so many people believe that a particular political party has only a small elite in their best interest, why do so many still continue to vote for them? A question needs to be asked, why do working class, low and middle income families, continue to support a party that gives little to no benefit to them?

A New York Times/CBS News poll was released last October and showed that 70% of all Americans believed that the policies of congressional Republicans favored the rich. In addition to the backlash towards congressional Republicans, two-thirds of Americans actually disapprove of continuing tax cuts for corporations and millionaires. President Obama's recent proposal, the "Buffett Rule", which would place a minimum tax rate of 30% on millionaires, failed in the Senate with a 51-49 vote. Only one Republican voted for the bill, falling nine votes short of the 60 vote super majority it needed to move to the House of Representatives.
Though the "Buffett Rule" failed in the Senate, if a 60% threshold was needed among the American people, the bill would have passed with flying colors. According to a recent CNN poll, 72% of Americans favor the "Buffett Rule,"blowing away the numbers shown in congress. These numbers show where the majority of Americans stand when it comes to economics, but it doesn't translate in the polls when it comes to election time. On most occasions, both the Republican party and the Democratic party each gain around 45% of the electorate, with the remaining 10% swinging in either direction depending on the mood of the country. While Democratic voters are mostly working class Americans who are more inclined to change and accepting others, Republican voters stick to their ideology and are much more resistant to change.
It makes economic sense for the wealthiest Americans to vote for the Republican party because they want to protect their own private finances without giving others, including themselves, the chance for more upward mobility. What makes people scratch their head is the idea of a working class family, making $50,000 a year, voting for a party that continues to give tax breaks to the wealthy and paying for it by cutting the programs that benefit the lower and middle class income families. The Locust Fork News-Journal did a story about a retired Auburn History professor and author, Wayne Flynt, who has written about why Americans often do vote against their best interests in his book "Poor but Proud."
“It’s partly because preachers tell them that the Democratic Party is a godless party...It’s party because the Democratic Party is made up of a large number of African-Americans, and working class whites just won’t vote that way.” Dr. Flynt points out that before the 1960s and 1970s, social issues such as abortion, gay rights and religion weren't talked about as much as they are today. As the years have gone on, social issues and their importance have mixed together with the economic issues of our time. In many southern states, Evangelical Christianity makes up the majority of the voters, most of them Republican. With the recent insurgence of the Tea Party movement into the national Republican party, religion and Christianity has made its way into the secular society of the United States. Today, more than ever before, religion has found its way out of the home and churches and into the public square, a place where religion was never intended to be when our founding fathers began to craft the United States constitution. Dr. Flynt makes a very important statement when it comes to Americans and their idea of the importance of their religion and its impact on society.
“If you are a truck diver, a plumber, an electrician or a steel worker and you live in Alabama, you say, ‘Well, I think my religion is the way everybody ought to think,... but, let that same guy move to Salt Lake City, Utah (where the majority is Mormon) or New Jersey or Connecticut (where the majority is Catholic) or Dearborn, Michigan, (where the majority is Muslim), and he won’t think so highly of the idea that the majority of people ought to impose their religious values on the minority.” Even when conservatives leave the comfort of their conservative church, they quickly turn the TV to the right wing news station, Fox News, or set the radio dial to conservatives mouth pieces like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck or Michael Savage. Fox News, owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch, has been accused of multiple instances where they have taken a far right bias when reporting the news. The "journalists" on Fox News twist facts around to misinform their viewers and push them towards the Republican party. While conservatives hold Fox News close to their hearts, the rest of America can't take them seriously. With conservative talking heads like Bill O'Rielly and Sean Hannity blasting any political position that isn't far right conservatism, independent voters often see through the bias and turn the TV off.
The Republican party and the pundits who support them, use an agenda of fear, channeling the ways of former Republican senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy. In the 1950s, McCarthy had accused hundreds of Democrats in the United States of being members of the communist party without having any proof of his claims. As the years went on, the American people took McCarthy and his fear agenda as a sad and pathetic joke. The current Republican party goes further than McCarthy did, using what conservatives hold close to them against them, their religion. Republicans push the fear of gays, Muslims, atheists and others who aren't evangelical Christians onto conservatives voters, using those fears to bypass many economic issues that could normally work against them.
Whether it's religion, fear or simply a case of misinformation, conservative voters have been getting the wool pulled over their eyes for years and it's not only affecting them, but the entire country. The Democratic party is far from perfect, but more often than not, their policies represent the best interest of the majority of the American people. Until the media becomes accountable for the truth in their reporting and Americans start to think outside the box and accept that others might have some good ideas, the American people will have to continue to weather the storm of Republican destruction.

[BWest]

Well written. Most Americans are "conservative". They value family, education, aspire to a better life for themselves and their children. They don't want rampant pornography, sexual predators chasing their kids or drugs on the streets. They want to be left in peace to choose a path that they want. This group of people does not vote for Republicans. These people do not want Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rush Limbaugh and other criminal deviants living next door to them. These political perverts talk about conservative values but in each case they have demonstrated that they are self serving hypocrites who couldn't be bothered with p$ssing on you if you were on fire. There are exceptions. Former R-Senator JC Watts, Colin Powell and it would seem John Kasich for the moment are honorable people. Donald Trump is an independent and is not embraced by Republican elite because he does not display the criminal tendencies of most Republicans. Hilliary Clinton should be a Republican because she is a master bullsh#tter and of coarse a criminal. Bernie Sanders always knew he could not win the Democratic nomination because Democrats have "super-delegates" who are almost entirely aligned with Clinton. The point of Bernie's campaign is much like the strategy employed by "medical marijuana" advocates. People are initially turned off by this "radical idea", but begin to mull over the pros and cons after awhile. Soon the ideas are not so radical and people begin to realize that there is an alternative to the criminals (mostly Republicans) who have been running this country. Now there are some very delusional people who as they are being crushed by Republican policies cry out their allegiance to the party. We are fortunate enough to have a few here at sbr to parrot FOXNoise sound bites and such. The two party system or party systems in general are detrimental to the democratic process. The founding fathers (republican criminal types are always quoting them) warned against alliances and party politics. Bernie Sanders is not going to be President but now Americans realize that they are not stuck with two parties forever.