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I find it weird that it’s by such a large margin too.
I wonder how much of Bernie’s margin is “it’s early and more of The Base is really invested enough to take the poll” and how much of it is that people who watched actually thought he was better than Hillary by a factor of 7:1.
Personally, I think they both did well. It was brutally evident the entire time why the 3 guys who can’t beat the margin of error are where they are. They’ve all got that same quality that every Republican except for Jeb and Trump has where it sounds like they’re improvising badly in the language of politics as opposed to using the language of politics to communicate. If you took the head of the Young Democrats and the head of the Young Republicans from most high schools and put them on either debate stage, they’d probably automatically be in the top 3 just based on how shitty and ineloquent nearly all these candidates are. Like, 70-90% of the time there’s only a tangential link between their cadence/inflection and their meaning and it makes it feel like they’re waiting for a guy in their head to come up with the next cue card as opposed to speaking from anyplace real.
small sample size, but on Fox News after the debate, they had a focus group of 27 democrats. By a show of hands, probably 80% of them were HC supporters before the debate. Nearly all of them were converted to Sanders by the end.
Clinton did alright, but for me, it’s really hard to accept “oops” on Iraq.
Yeah, I mean, I was a teenager when they were doing the runup to Iraq and I knew it was bullshit and that it was basically only going over because of racism. I think it’s less a matter of, “Oh, they fooled me to.” and more a matter of, “I have no sense of right and wrong outside of political cost/benefit analysis. I’m not sorry I did it, I’m sorry it didn’t make me look good.”
The media drives the matter. Bernie will be marginalized throughout the campaign, in whatever way possible, through selective reporting, whatever. Bernie is the loose cannon on the Democrat side and will be sunk by the media however possible, the media who have chosen Hillary. I may not agree with Bernie's “the government will take care of you and you and you and, yay! EVERYONE!” philosophy, but I respect the man because he’s a man of conviction and passion and integrity and will never in a million years be allowed access to the White House, except maybe as a guest.
The same exact shit is true for Trump. Again–we are not talking politics. We are talking their outlier, we are talking anti-establishment.
I don’t know who’s going to be president and I don’t care. I am opposed the presidency. But I can tell you right now it sure as shit ain’t gonna be Bernie or Trump.
It’s gonna be somebody completely beige, somebody “kinda” and “sorta” and the status quo is going to march on yada yada yada.
