Bernie Sanders
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People For Bernie
jalan48
(13,901 posts)azmom
(5,208 posts)Either party. He's just a distraction for the masses.
jalan48
(13,901 posts)appalachiablue
(41,182 posts)have to break up Big Media monopolies!
Feel the Bern!
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Feels like 100x.
Difference is, Trump has hit his ceiling at about 25% of repub voters (not all voters, just repubs). Bernie keeps moving up.
If I had the choice, I'd rather have media silence than massive attacks.
thesquanderer
(11,996 posts)Trump's coverage is understandable. He's outrageous, and so makes for good TV. He was also already a national celebrity (largely due to his Apprentice tv show). Plus he's been consistently leading in republican polls. In that resepct, once Sanders is leading Clinton in a variety of polls week after week, then you can compare.
Playinghardball
(11,665 posts)thesquanderer
(11,996 posts)For those who say that Sanders would be weaker than Clinton in the general election... against Trump at least, they do about the same:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
angrychair
(8,738 posts)That has news stories about a person's butt pics on Instagram
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)And then see the poll results.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)I support Bernie Sanders, but it's understandable that someone running at #2 for his party's nomination gets less coverage than someone running at #1.
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)tRump proves that 38% of voters love to see a clown be a clown...an evil, disgusting piece of...well, a clown...
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)He's the missing teenage blonde for 2016. It provides the traditional MSM with an excuse to not cover Bernie Sanders.
The powers that be know that the Donald is not going to be president. He won't go away because in the pay-to-play political game he can pay his own way; that's within the rules set by the powers that be, and the traditional MSM works for the powers that be.
Bernie is the threat to the powers that be. He's like a crowd funded candidate and he wants it that way. He gets his message out through the New MSM on the Net. The powers' that be worst nightmare is the people electing a candidate who slipped through their control of the political power structure and owes them nothing.
And nothing is what good the powers that be are to the People.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)And certainly one that disgusts me; but turns on a lot of ignorance and simple minds in this nation of morons.