You go Bernie.

the average American it really is fun.

And wants to keep it that way.

They want to make it much, much worse.

Warren is not running and Bernie is not winning, but enjoy the side show.

....we are still a long way out.

/ignore.

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I feel warm and fuzzy now.

"Fine Corinthian leather" indeed.

from where we worry about winning or losing. Now's the time for working! If you're not in the 'side show' I guess you're on the side line.

And I will love it if he is our next president.

I will follow his lead in just about everything because I know he is the "George Carlin" candidate, as in if George was alive he would be supporting Bernie.

Like I said I will follow Bernie's lead, INCLUDING voting for Hillary if Bernie doesnt make it to the Nov election.

Bernie will assure you that doing anything else is suicide and madness.

speak for him.

one with his ideas. That is the link that is seen between winning candidates and their supporters.

candidate on election day.

any

But, how he votes is not even the point. I keep seeing DUers posting what Bernie would say, want, etc. It's silly.

though if she wins it won't be all that enjoyable.

And the campaign season hasn't even begun. Geez.

and won't for some time. Hillary Clinton hasn't won anything yet either. That's what we have primaries and caucuses for. Let the contest begin.

What has he lost?

Your post was more like a no-hit wonder.

he announced last Thursday.

Steadily going up directly relating to when people get to know him.

Once people start hearing his message, that number will grow. If EW endorses him, that would be huge.

I volunteered today, and he also has an additional $100 in his coffers.

Good for you. He won't take corporate money, so he needs us. We need us!

When he declared his candidacy, I knew Elizabeth was not going to run and it was an easy and natural transition to Bernie. He is a genuinely decent man who tells the truth. He is the people's candidate and we are damn lucky he is giving us an excellent choice.

same champions of the people, and we love them for it.

And Truman was in his last year in office when I was born.

They think that with all their propaganda and such, that these things are just abnormalities. When the people get united behind one objective, or in this case, one candidate, it can happen relatively quickly, and they generally don't see it coming.
I only hope that Bernie's support will snowball, as more and more people find out about his message, his steadfastness, and his honesty. I have already spoken to several people, right wing people, who say that even though they are not for everything that Bernie represents, that he is honest and consistent, and that we need this.
I only see that if more see this, he is on his way to the White House!

Or like a keyboard/brain mind meld.

Liz knows she's going to have to work with whoever is elected, so she may have bridges of her own she doesn't want to burn.

Then I thought about the fact that Liz feels that Hillary betrayed her on a fairly important matter when Hill was in the Senate. So, in the end, Liz may very well endorse Bernie. Certainly his positions are closer to her heart than Hill's.

Warren like Bernie, is a real deal populist, it can't be faked.
I wouldn't be surprised by anything Sanders/Warren...they are like minded.

Warren would have been great, but "inexperience" would have been hung around her neck just as much as "age" and "socialist" will be hung around Bernie's. Every candidate has their political strengths and weaknesses. I don't see any reason to think that Sanders can't be at least as good a candidate as Warren would have been.

had just been elected Mayor of Burlington and was saying the same things he is now, and advocating for those things.

He's been talking and walking consistently the whole time.

....and will not speak ill of other Democrats even if they do. Not having any members of the Republican clown in any office is too important .

I think it behooves us to respect his wisdom.

everything at this point. One thing that Bernie needs to do is fight the Clinton inevitability meme and I think that he will. As Bernie raises more and more money from small donors and as it becomes increasingly obvious that he actually does have a chance then his support will continue to grow. And hopefully you will be firmly placed on his bandwagon by then.

And knock down the MSM talking points, " too old, too socialist, token candidate". Just listen to what he has to say. Look at his record. Bernie is the real deal, with no strings attached. Go Bernie!

Welcome to DU.

I have seen several descriptions of the American "people", some of which are not positive. Raises the question, how to reach low info/no info voters. Where do they get their low info/no info? Many people simply do not read anything, watch any news, look for news on the internet, or seek to inform themselves politically. I know people like this. Even though they may be fed up, they don't seem to make the connection between elected officials and quality of life. This explains the reelection of idiots and con artists, but how to counter this? Go Bernie!

It is time for a real progressive populist movement, but the message needs to be clear and not overly complex and it needs to be repeated over and over to drive it home into the minds of the people.

Then Bernie will win

on her candidacy, many may join Bernie, however those
still insisting on a woman will go to HRC.
Warren herself will not favor either,imo.

Let us see, how long it will take Move-on to understand
that Bernie's run may eliminate EW's run in some ways.

I really like her in the Senate.

and jump on the ticket!

Rather than the much more realistic assessment that she thinks saying she favors them is a quick way to lose a general election, particularly since they're not remotely achievable by any President.

going to cut it. Neither is guesswork by her supporters.

Mis-leading title. There is nothing in your OP or your cited article that indicated that Warren's supporters are shifting to Sanders. You may feel that they should but there's no evidence that that's happening.

We still "support" Warren, and if she were to run, we'd have to decide whether Warren or Bernie would have the best chance of winning. I would love either one of them as president. Why I chose to work for Warren is that I thought she might have the best shot at winning.

Warren would have the following advantages:
1) As a woman, she would force the media to focus more on the issues when comparing her as a candidate to Clinton, instead of playing the identity politics cards that were played in last election (voting for or against a woman as a candidate or voting for or against a person of color as a candidate), which served to distract us from looking at the issues and getting some more solid commitments of what "Hope and Change" would really translate to in terms of later deeds in office.
2) Bernie as a person who has had a lot more public view of his view and interaction with Thom Hartmann on the weekly town hall he does, could be more exposed to "gotcha" politics by the mining of his show's comments that the right is sure to do.
3) Warren's focus has been on the financial issues and other issues that are populist at their core that few other politicians have taken. Bernie has also stood strong on these issues, but he's also stood strong on many other issues, and has spoken out as a "socialist". This could be manipulated to make it harder for some independents and Republicans to support him.

However, since Bernie's been starting to run and speak I'm noticing a few things:
1) Rather than being a potential liability for the right looking for quotes to hang Sanders with, I think the Thom Hartmann show has served Bernie well in that he's far more prepared than many other candidates in going out and speaking honestly to everyone he talks to. It is also very hard for the media to manipulate him with questions in to a corner, since Bernie's used to responding to a wide variety of unrehearsed questions on Hartmann's show. And he's shown this skill in the many interviews he's done already.
2) I think Bernie is looking very strong in his ability to project an honest politician that doesn't need to parse words because he doesn't have to "think" so much about what kind of things he's going to talk about and his positions on issues when talking to people on the stump. I think many voters out there of all persuasions have been waiting for a long time for a voice in politics like this, where voters, no matter what their voter persuasion is, feel that he's being honest with him, and even if they might disagree with him on some issues, on many of the core populist issues, they will like his more unique positions on those, and they will feel more comfortable that they know where he stands and where he's going to go in office. That will get him more votes from "non-left" voters than the media will want to give him credit for.
3) I don't think Bernie will let the media play the identity politics card when debating issues with Clinton. He will try to keep them focused on issues and hasn't fallen in to the traps they've tried to put before him to have him "attack" Clinton. Hoping he can help keep it that way. America wants to see politicians that take stands strongly on the issues they've felt neglected. I think they're tired of the manipulation away from this that we've had for too long with both parties and the media in recent elections.
4) He seems prepared for the "socialist" label that keeps coming at him and hit Obama. Obama never deserved this label, as he was far from being a socialist anyway. And Bernie defines more specifically what kind of socialist he is, that given the opportunity to do so, I think many of those that aren't off the right wing deep end, will start to understand. Perhaps at some point someone will note that the Koch Brothers who have funded the corporate Republican Party and the corporatist elements in the Democratic Party like the DLC, that they helped fund and put people in to begin with, were in fact more tied to COMMUNIST rather than socialist regimes when their father Fred Koch was heavily tied to Joseph Stalin, in building their infrastructure and building the Koch's fortune and empire. And if that gets out there, Bernie will note that he's NOT a communist (which wasn't and isn't democratic, unlike states like Denmark, etc. that Sanders points to as a model now). So, perhaps the Republicans and corporate Democrats like "commies" more than Sanders does, even if Sanders is a "socialist".

You're welcome to tell us what YOU think, but I don't see you provide any evidence of multitudes following in your footsteps.

I see many here also that support Bernie that have also supported Warren. So PROVE that I'm the only one that has been starting to support Bernie if you want to make any kind of point here! You CAN'T!

No evidence? Having said that, there won't be evidence coming out of MSM or those who want to paint the "horse race" to their liking, but it is merely a matter of time...whereupon it will be obvious to all naysayers.

I'll be expecting to hear from you by then.

Where do you think Warren support is shifting to? It is shifting, but Sanders supporters know full well where it is shifting, because WE are the ones shifting...that's the WE, my friend.

I support close to 50 candidates every year in big dollar amounts, so it's not in my interest to have illusions about the prospects of my candidates. I crunch a lot of data on each one, and monitor any changes, so IF Hillary Clinton starts to fall, I'll be aware of it (FYI - I switched from Clinton to Obama in 2008 after Super Tuesday when I could no longer see a path to victory). One thing I WON'T be doing is blaming "the MSM" or "the Party Bosses" if my candidate loses; I trust you'll do the same.

it is thanks to blind allegiance.

Having said that, I will never, ever vote GOP, but I'll be damned if I'm going to settle for the crumbs any corporate candidate is willing to leave to satisfy their big money sponsors, and that includes Ms. Inevitable. She's got a lot to answer for in the coming election & pretending at populism isn't going to cut it.

If you live in the real world, you understand what is playing out. To support the oligarchy and greed is to enable it.

Just sayin'.

I'm not shifting from Warren to Sanders. I've always favored both of them.

truly represents us. Corporate candidates clearly do not.

No matter how much some of us have been dismayed by Obama's seeming capitulation to the centrist/DLC faction, he's been great at the symbolic level. VERY dignified and presidential, having ten times the gravitas of his predecessor. Won back a great amount of lost respect for the US squandered by Bush. For reasons of symbolism, I prefer the Oklahoman-gone-to-Massachusetts Republican-turned-Democrat to the New Yorker-gone to Vermont socialist.

But that is all theatrics, this isn't Starsearch, and if she's not running I want someone as close as possible to her positions. The whole "real Indian" vs. "real Jew" argument is Republican territory, and those memes will be thrown at EITHER candidate by the opposition.

to values, principles and past voting record. One is not running, and the other does not share our ideals. So, I'm calling it for the white male and hoping the passion of the Warrenistas will translate into a viable campaign for Bernie. She would be a powerful campaigner for Bernie, if we should be so lucky.