2016 Postmortem

G_j

(40,367 posts) Tue Mar 22, 2016, 05:25 PM Mar 2016

Sanders is the king of credibility in 2016

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/273923-sanders-is-the-king-of-credibility-in-2016

In the latest New York Times/CBS poll, the results show that Hillary Clinton (D) would defeat Republican front-runner Donald Trump by 10 percentage points and Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) would defeat Trump by 15 points — numbers consistent other recent polling.

Even more striking, the number of Democrats who consider Sanders honest and trustworthy was an astonishing 84 percent in that poll, almost 30 points higher than the same number for Clinton among Democrats and for Trump among Republicans.
Sanders is the king of credibility in the 2016 campaign because no matter how the question is posed, and no matter whether it is party members or all voters who are polled, Sanders leads all Democratic and all Republican candidate when it comes to honesty, trustworthiness or net favorable/unfavorable ratings.

Think about it: In an age of anti-establishment fervor, at a time when RealClearPolitics finds that Congress is held in disapproval by between 75 and 80 percent of voters, Sanders has achieved spectacularly positive numbers on matters of honesty, trust and favorability that are not matched by any Democrat or Republican running for president, or a Congress that is held in disrepute by more than three-fourths of the American people.

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Sanders is the king of credibility in 2016 (Original Post) G_j Mar 2016 OP

He's very credible. dchill Mar 2016 #1

A funny thing happened to the "Inevitables" on their way to the White House? Peace Patriot Mar 2016 #2

This is a fantastic post, PP. Thank you for your cogent analysis. hedda_foil Mar 2016 #3

I've pondered that also. G_j Mar 2016 #4

dchill

(38,481 posts)

1. He's very credible.

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 05:50 PM

Mar 2016

Not that it's that high of a hurdle in this particular heat.

Peace Patriot

(24,010 posts)

2. A funny thing happened to the "Inevitables" on their way to the White House?

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:07 PM

Mar 2016

Let's hope so. Americans don't believe their shit now. How much worse will it be when nobody believes their shit in the White House?

Are we heading for social-political meltdown? A President who is despised and considered very untrustworthy in the White House--Clinton or Trump. A Congress with single digit approval ratings. A Supremely Bad Court at the top. And all us boiling mad peons at the bottom.

Is this somebody's DESIGN? Chaos? I often thought that of Cheney & Rumsfeld--that their real object was CHAOS, whether in Iraq or here. Or did God design this (he-he) to punish us for sticking our heads in the sand?

Remember "Get Smart"? Oldies will. Funny TV spy show in which the enemy's name was C.H.A.O.S.

Lordy, lordy, what a situation! The only honest and trusted politician on the national scene, and Democratic Party officialdom and the Corporate 'news' monopolies have tried their very best to sabotage him at every turn--and God only knows what the Corporate voting machines are doing.

Chaos--intelligent design, or Mother Nature at work to rid herself of The Polluters? Or is it just the way of the Universe? Galaxies come, galaxies go--and it all just keeps E-X-P-AAAAAAAAAAAA-DING!

hedda_foil

(16,373 posts)

3. This is a fantastic post, PP. Thank you for your cogent analysis.

Reply to Peace Patriot (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:41 PM

Mar 2016

G_j

(40,367 posts)

4. I've pondered that also.

Reply to Peace Patriot (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:46 PM

Mar 2016

Chaos by design?

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