Yes 🙌 Thank you #JoeBiden, #HillaryClinton deserves the highest honor! She had won the election in 2016, if not for foreign interference and the bad election system in America.
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The Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), an election survey of about 50,000 people, found that 12% of Sanders voters voted for Trump in 16. In the states of Mi, Pa, and Wi, the number of Sanders–Trump voters was more than two times Trump's margin of victory in those states.
In 2024, any dem male wins that election. I know it's not pc to talk about, but there is a reason why trump did better with black males and Hispanic males and it's not because kamala was a bad candidate. The misogyny in those communities is still so prevelant today.
Sadly this is a huge part of the outcome. Even many white women voted for the patriarchy because of a traditional (oppressive to women) structure of society.
Biden beat Trump in 2020 and Harris almost did in 2024. Both lost votes because too many voters believed they were socialists even though they’re not. Compare that to an old guy who says he actually is one and you’d get a much bigger loss. DSA should call themselves progressives, not socialists.
No, his socialist brand was literally dragging him down. Look at 2020 primary. Not only was he too old but also too leftist for the majority of the electorate. The country is pretty conservative, this is not Europe or Canada.
These are talking points the legacy democrats want you to sight. As far as the world goes, he’s not that far left, and the support he had in 2016 was palpable. And look where we are now. Is that what you wanted? Sorry but this is a shit take and it’s a reason why we can’t get out of our own way.
If times have changed as much as you think, you are right. If not, Arriadna is right. Read up on the election of '72. Vietnam War raging, everyone tired of it, Dems nominated liberal like Bernie, got smashed in election. Nixon won 2nd term. Has America changed much?
I am still with Hillary. A 71 year old woman who has voted for men, helped elect men. Our time is beyond overdue. Shirley Chisholm, Hillary Clinton and Kamala all supremely more competent than F tRUMP
What people just voted for was the most radical platform any candidate has ever run on--radically authoritarian, but still radical. Harris ran as more of a moderate than Biden. As a historian, "the myth of the moderate voter" has evolved to suit corporate interests & political parties have bought in
Caring about rural people means broadband, even fucking cellphone coverage is shite. The mail has just slowed down rurally on top of the "central sorting" of mail, it took 30 days to get a letter 140 miles from Detroit to the rural area I live in.
Biden-Harris administration worked very hard on expanding broadband in rural areas. Republican House Funding Bill reduced $ for USPS, because they want Americans to get pissed off so they can privatize it. Important to know who is doing what:
Well, we need to change that, too. The history of the electoral college goes back to the 3/5 compromise with southern states on whether slaves should count as people. If we went with the popular vote--which only makes sense, rationally--Hillary would've won in 2016, and we wouldn't be here
I don't want the electoral college to be abolished. I don't like that idea. It'll lead to parties completely turning their backs on the people in certain areas.
I am however interested in revamping it. Give every state 1 vote per 100k population and whoever wins 50% in that state gets all.
I have to agree. He’s a good guy and his heart’s in the right place but he misread the electorate. He could have used his influence for another candidate. But nooooo.
He did use his influence for another candidate, but that candidate didn't have his opinion on the uber wealthy and in fact was getting donations from most of them. So even though he endorsed her, a lot of people dumped her because she doesn't actually care about workers.
And he beat her in every single rural county in every single swing state. You know, the rural counties that just elected that dickstain orange fucking ape twice.
He won Michigan
He trounced her in Wisconsin
He nearly doubled her in Minnesota
He still nearly beat her in PA despite already being out of the running before they voted.
He beat Hillary in every state that mattered. No one cares who wins the dem primary in fucking Alabama.
And yet in EVERY single poll for every year since 2000, he is the one politician with by far the highest favorability rating and it's not really even close.
Keep believing that. The US has never had the option to vote for someone like him.
Basic math. If you can’t win the primary you won’t do better in The general unless you’re to the center of your primary opponent. So unless you think Sanders is a centrist this is objectively false.
That's not at all how it works. Thats not how any of it works. It's how they have fucking brainwashed you into thinking it works but it doesn't work like that at all. See the polls below of bernie v trump. Far better than any numbers hillary ever polled at.
I agree! 2016 was a time when people wanted a new direction, after Obama voters started OWS, upset by income inequality. Many "Bernie bros" went MAGA, including a chunk of my family (CNN's "The Whole Story" ep. recounts this). Bernie directed anger at "the system" in the right way, but DNC was blind
Yes, he is and was right. What this election demonstrated to me is that you need an explanation as to why the average American is being increasingly squeezed. MAGA made some up (undocumented immigrants, libs, the deep state). Billionaires and corps are the real explanation--so speak truth, dems!!
The Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), an election survey of about 50,000 people, found that 12% of Sanders voters voted for Trump in 16. In the states of Mi, Pa, and Wi, the number of Sanders–Trump voters was more than two times Trump's margin of victory in those states.
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And boy is it a fun ride.
https://www.youtube.com/live/JkmSXcHLjLE?si=W6Jt02qL-gWqbC9m
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We would have been in good hands under her leadership.
Bernie has had the highest favorability rating of any politician in Washington pretty much every year this millennia.
Newsom - 26% favorability rating
Buttigieg - 36%
Harris - 36% when announced as the candidate
Shapiro - 28%
Mark Kelly - 32%
I have no doubt that Kelly, Shapiro, Buttigieg (less confident) could win an election for president, but Bernie had a rating of over 50%.
He's been the ONLY US congressperson with a net favorable rating for ALL US registered voters for the last 20 years.
He had a higher favorability rating than all the presidential candidates in 2016, 2020 and 2024.
And everything you said is great and correct, but the reality is we fucking lost. And now we have this dickstain in office, because they lost.
The goal is 270 electoral votes. The only swing votes right now are AZ, NV, MI, WI, MN, PA, NC.
Caring about rural people and workers wins MI, WI, PA, MN and ultimately the election.
I am however interested in revamping it. Give every state 1 vote per 100k population and whoever wins 50% in that state gets all.
He won Michigan
He trounced her in Wisconsin
He nearly doubled her in Minnesota
He still nearly beat her in PA despite already being out of the running before they voted.
He beat Hillary in every state that mattered. No one cares who wins the dem primary in fucking Alabama.
Liberals in cities were simply not voting for trump...the end. Hillary added nothing to the dems already guaranteed tally.
Keep believing that. The US has never had the option to vote for someone like him.
He also ignited the rural areas and working class of the US. Something that the dems have completely fucked up for the last 40 years.
In 1992 the bottom 50% of this country owned 4.1% of it's wealth.
Today that numbers is 2.4% after bottoming out in 2004 at 0.4%.
With the tax increase on the bottom and tax decrease on the top it'll be under 1% in 2026.
Most bernie supporters (me included) did not like the fact that Hillary and Bill are both conservatives. I voted for both of them but did not like it.