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New (Jan. 27-28) FLORIDA poll: Biden 41.3%, Bloomberg 17.3%, Sanders 9.4%, Warren 6.9%, (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2020 OP
Wait, you mean Sanders isn't surging in Florida? MontanaFarmer Jan 2020 #1
LOL now if a 41.3% isn't a surge i don't know what is onetexan Jan 2020 #3
Stealing it in 2016, t-rump's focus again . . . . Iliyah Jan 2020 #2
Biden's ahead in FL, NY, and Texas. Behind by 3 in California. Scurrilous Jan 2020 #4
And this poll has Bernie sub 15% Amishman Jan 2020 #12
I'm so happy. Scurrilous Jan 2020 #14
another 80 delegates in the lead.... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #5
+1,000,000 highplainsdem Jan 2020 #11
How HUMILIATING for Bernie! 32 points BEHIND Joe Biden?? WOW! NurseJackie Jan 2020 #6
Note that if we win Florida, Trump can have the Rust Belt (nt) Recursion Jan 2020 #7
Florida is one of most diverse states in the country and a major battleground state. honest.abe Jan 2020 #8
KnR NCProgressive Jan 2020 #9
The primary is more than a month away BrooklynJet2020 Jan 2020 #10
Nobody likes Bernie in Florida. Scurrilous Jan 2020 #15
Im from South Florida BrooklynJet2020 Jan 2020 #16
get used to it, but not from dems..... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #17
LOL Scurrilous Jan 2020 #21
This message was self-deleted by its author RandiFan1290 Jan 2020 #18
Ok, dware Jan 2020 #20
This never happened. All is well. Once Bernie campaigns it will be all OK. Scurrilous Jan 2020 #23
LOL Scurrilous Jan 2020 #19
Joe is the only Dem who can deliver Florida in the General Election. oasis Jan 2020 #13
K&R Tarheel_Dem Jan 2020 #22
Why Bernie Sanders' Communist Misadventures Still Matter showblue22 Jan 2020 #24
 

MontanaFarmer

(630 posts)
1. Wait, you mean Sanders isn't surging in Florida?
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 09:44 AM
Jan 2020

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN!!!??? MY HAIR'S ON FIRE! Sorry, had to get that out of my system. Great poll, and another example of why Biden is going to be tough to beat. If, IF he loses some early states and/or California, he'll still be getting a good delegate haul from those states. Not the case for Sanders across the south.

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onetexan

(13,043 posts)
3. LOL now if a 41.3% isn't a surge i don't know what is
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 09:47 AM
Jan 2020
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Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
2. Stealing it in 2016, t-rump's focus again . . . .
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 09:47 AM
Jan 2020

on EC states. Democrats with keeping majority in other states, the EC states are extremely crucial. We must come out and vote in huge numbers. Republicans are right now aligning themselves with stealing and cheating for these states any means necessary.

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Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
4. Biden's ahead in FL, NY, and Texas. Behind by 3 in California.
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 09:49 AM
Jan 2020

Hey look...New Hampshire.

Proud of my state. Hillary kicked ass in 2106. Biden in 2020.

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Amishman

(5,557 posts)
12. And this poll has Bernie sub 15%
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:01 PM
Jan 2020

Would be zero delegates if carried forward.

A sub 15% outing in one state has a far greater impact than a narrow win in several

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getagrip_already

(14,764 posts)
5. another 80 delegates in the lead....
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 09:49 AM
Jan 2020

That's how many more than bernie this would result in. Kaching. And a winnable (although not recently) state in the GE, but only with joe.

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NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
6. How HUMILIATING for Bernie! 32 points BEHIND Joe Biden?? WOW!
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 09:55 AM
Jan 2020

He should just go ahead and withdraw now to save further embarrassment.

I mean... that's LESS than the 15% required to be considered "viable" and to receive any delegates from Florida, right? That's gotta hurt.

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Recursion

(56,582 posts)
7. Note that if we win Florida, Trump can have the Rust Belt (nt)
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 09:56 AM
Jan 2020
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honest.abe

(8,678 posts)
8. Florida is one of most diverse states in the country and a major battleground state.
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 10:25 AM
Jan 2020

This bodes well for Biden.

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BrooklynJet2020

(19 posts)
10. The primary is more than a month away
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 10:55 AM
Jan 2020

Do you realistically think that Biden will hold such a substantial lead up till the primary? I dont.

Whether Bernie is "Surging" or not, which just sounds dumb. Bernie is winning polls in early states after battling his way up. Bernie is winning in Iowa and NH because he campaigned, held rallies and faced the people of the state. No one has even set foot in Florida. Whos to say Biden doesnt fall when the people start actually campaigning in the state? Maybe Biden will stay at the top? I doubt he'll win this significantly.

Ya'll need to stop using this "Surging" nonsense every time you see Biden in the lead in a state no one has even stepped foot in just to be condescending. I get the majority is Biden but even the Bernie in the lead polls get bombarded with "Who cares" garbage.

Oh man...im probably opening up a can of worms here...

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Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
15. Nobody likes Bernie in Florida.
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:54 PM
Jan 2020

Hillary trounced him in 2016 w/ 64% of the vote.

South Florida w/ it's Hispanic population was over 70%. People don't like him. They think he's a communist.

Him too...

“We love all 23 candidates. No, minus one. I profoundly dislike Bernie Sanders, and you can write it. I don’t give a hoot. He’s a communist under the cover of being a socialist. He thinks that every billionaire is a crook. He calls us ‘the billionaire class.’ And he attacks us indiscriminately. ‘It’s the billionaire class, the bad guys.’ This is how communists think. So, 22 are great. One is a disaster zone.”


“I can’t deny the impact that Bernie has had on the Democratic Party. I love it when Bernie says, ‘I recognize Israel’s right to exist.’ That’s how he expresses his support of Israel. Well, thank you so very much. Are you out of your freaking mind? Oh, I’m allowed to live. Hallelujah, praise the lord.”


https://mondoweiss.net/2019/07/democratic-candidate-sanders/
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BrooklynJet2020

(19 posts)
16. Im from South Florida
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 01:09 PM
Jan 2020

I already know the people here dont like Bernie. But calling him a communist is wrong and short sighted.

My state is so backwards.

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getagrip_already

(14,764 posts)
17. get used to it, but not from dems.....
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 01:21 PM
Jan 2020

If by some stroke of the second amendment he ends up as the candidate, he will be painted so far into the Bolshevik state reporters will start asking him questions in russian.

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dware

(12,399 posts)
20. Ok,
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 11:29 PM
Jan 2020

so there are 2 people in S. Florida that support BS.

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Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
23. This never happened. All is well. Once Bernie campaigns it will be all OK.
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 05:35 AM
Jan 2020
2016 Florida Democratic primary

State - Hillary 64.4%


The 'Here, there, everywhere, Yankee must die' effect.


Broward - Hillary 72.5%


Miami-Dade - Hillary 74.7%


Palm Beach - Hillary 71.5%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Florida_Democratic_primary


'...so there are 2 people in S. Florida that support BS.'

I met the third on Twitter. Directed me to their site. DSA of something or other. I checked it out quickly then replied 'I noted no one puts their last names. good idea. You wouldn't want a youthful indiscretion to pop up in the future and ruin your life.'

No such luck for Bernie.

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Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
19. LOL
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 11:23 PM
Jan 2020

Bernie is not going to be able to hide his past. It will come out. It started in Israel for Bernie. At the kibbutz. The one that flew the Soviet red flag and sang the internationale at assemblies. The one no one wanted to go to. But Bernie.

"We also learn that relatively few people volunteered at the kibbutzim affiliated with Hashomer Hatzair before 1967, making Sanders’ 1963 visitation a rare exception among American volunteers."

"But in 1963 when Sanders worked on Hashomer’s kibbutz, its members considered themselves Marxist-Zionists, and they held a pro-Soviet orientation which included supporting Soviet foreign policy. Their ideological orientation on Zionism and socialism came not from the social democrats of the Socialist International, who were strongly anti-Communist and anti-fascist during the years of World War II (like Germany’s Willy Brandt), but from a rather unknown figure, a Zionist named Ber Borochov".


https://www.hudson.org/research/12194-bernie-s-adventures-on-a-stalinist-kibbutz

Soviet foreign policy in 1963 was profoundly Anti-American. There are people walking around today with pieces of 1963 Soviet Foreign Policy embedded in their bodies from their time in Vietnam. This is a serious fuck-up. Disqualifying even.

Democratic megadonor Haim Saban :

'We love all 23 candidates. No, minus one. I profoundly dislike Bernie Sanders, and you can write it. I don’t give a hoot. He’s a communist under the cover of being a socialist.'


https://mondoweiss.net/2019/07/democratic-candidate-sanders/

Saban full of shit? How about Noam Chomsky.

"Another young person who gravitated to the group was Noam Chomsky..." “I liked the kibbutz life and the kibbutz ideals.” In a Tablet interview conducted by David Samuels, Chomsky said he had gravitated to a Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz, but could never actually join it. That was “because in those days they were split between Stalinist and Trotskyite, and I was anti-Leninist.”


https://www.hudson.org/research/12194-bernie-s-adventures-on-a-stalinist-kibbutz

Split between Stalin and Trotsky. Two teams to decide from. Neither one good. Which did Bernie choose? Hint: It didn't begin with an 'S.' Chomsky said fuck that. Bernie didn't. Chomsky is a wise man. Bernie not so much.

The people who were there with him are still around in Israel. There are eyewitnesses. Israeli newspapers are the ones who dug and dug and discovered the name of the place after Bernie refused to divulge it when asked for years. He covered it up. Why?

“Sanders might have a hard time explaining all this to Americans — conservatives and liberals alike.”


https://www.hudson.org/research/12194-bernie-s-adventures-on-a-stalinist-kibbutz

The liberals BTW are us. The Democratic party's philosophy is modern liberalism. Where is our explanation?

The digging continues. Recent Bernie inspired infatuation aside this is is not a good sell to voters. A former communist as President. Not going to happen. I'm chest deep in the human toll of communism. Married one. My brother and sister too. Work with them. Live among them. Socialize etc. They know one when they see one. I show them this:



Communista! Followed by a string of Spanish invectives. Some of which I'm familiar with from discussions with my ex.

This issue will come out. Saban is sitting out primaries. He'll be back for GE. He has strong ties to Israel. People will talk . They're probably talking right now. Bernie's Achilles Heel is there. He knows it. That's why he clammed up and never mentioned the name. His association with that kibbutz and its Stalinist idealogy could spell his doom. Why wait for GE?
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oasis

(49,389 posts)
13. Joe is the only Dem who can deliver Florida in the General Election.
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:11 PM
Jan 2020
You can take that to the bank.
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showblue22

(1,026 posts)
24. Why Bernie Sanders' Communist Misadventures Still Matter
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 06:36 AM
Jan 2020

I saw a video on YouTube called "Why Bernie Sanders' Communist Misadventures Still Matter" I won't post it here because he comes from a libertarian source. It's very well put together, as I watched it, it was clear to me the republicans would be all over that and no way Bernie could beat Trump. The overall American electorate won't go for that! especially in Florida.

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