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2020 Democratic Presidential Nominees

Hillary and the DNC shooed away the competition because she was very beatable. Bernie’s success shows a likable candidate with his message would have won.
Dude I get that you don't personally "like" Bernie, but you are absolutely projecting here. There's a mountain of polling data showing his overall likeability and popularity. Hillary had a well established name recognition and loyalty among the Dem base, particularly women and african americans, plus she was the hand picked successor to Obama. Its a lot more than just personality.
 
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People like Bernie’s politics, not his personality. I’m going off observing how people talk about him.
 
Bernie is the most popular active politician (2017): https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...nders-countrys-most-popular-active-politician

Americans maintain a positive view of Sanders (2018): https://news.gallup.com/poll/243539/americans-maintain-positive-view-bernie-sanders.aspx

Sanders lags in delegates, but leads in likability (2016): https://www.chicagotribune.com/news...bernie-sanders-likability-20160411-story.html


If you google "Bernie Sanders likability", there are tons of articles declaring him the most likable candidate in spring/summer 2016. He didn't and doesn't have a personality problem.
 
From the first link:

While Sanders struggled during his Democratic primary challenge against Clinton in states with large African-American voting populations, he is viewed favorably by 73 percent of black registered voters.
 
This is from 2017:

Last spring, a Harvard-Harris poll found Sanders to be the most popular active politician in the country. African Americans gave the senator the highest favorables at 73 percent — vs. 68 percent among Latinos, 62 percent among Asian Americans and 52 percent among white voters. It wasn’t a fluke: This August, black voters again reported a 73 percent favorability rating for Sanders. Critics, such as Starr, continue to point to the senator’s 2016 primary numbers among older African American voters to claim that his message somehow doesn’t resonate with people of color as a whole — and continue to ignore that, according to GenForward, Sanders won the black millennial vote in the primaries.
 
Ph’s Bernie Sanders takes are just weird.

I get that you don’t like the dude, but damn.
 
Bernie can't get past being almost 80 when he would take the Oath of Office or having the word "socialist" as part of his political description. That would make him lose almost all the battleground states. The ads will be ubiquitous and vicious.
 
What do you like about Bernie?

That he's more principled than 99% of the neoliberal shitheads that make up the democratic party. And he supports an economic platform that will improve the lives of millions of americans, whether black, white, latinx, etc.
 
What do you like about Bernie?

I have posted about this before. None of my reasons have anything to do with his personality or self-styled conspiracies that he’s suppressing progressive presidential candidates. This is a presidential election, not a popularity contest.
 
We seem to be falling into the same trap of falling for Obama, Beto, Macron types with "personality" or a popular identity, without regard for a candidates platform. If we nominate and/or elect a Beto type, it will feel to me like we learned nothing from the past 10-15 years. We can't keep combating fascism with centrism. It doesn't work.
 
We seem to be falling into the same trap of falling for Obama, Beto, Macron types with "personality" or a popular identity, without regard for a candidates platform. If we nominate and/or elect a Beto type, it will feel to me like we learned nothing from the past 10-15 years. We can't keep combating fascism with centrism. It doesn't work.

Some people just want to vote for the popular kids. Some people grow up and learn to discern policy ideas from ambiguous rhetoric that sounds inspiring.
 
whatever your feelings on his politics, Bernie comes across as genuine, which is something you can't say about most politicians with a national profile these days

makes up for whatever he lacks in charisma, as far as the personality discussion goes
 
And his lack of charisma has a lot to do with your perspectives on his age and his accent. He’s not polished, but it’s pretty silly to suggest that he isn’t charismatic. A lot of people probably would disagree with that.
 
That he's more principled than 99% of the neoliberal shitheads that make up the democratic party. And he supports an economic platform that will improve the lives of millions of americans, whether black, white, latinx, etc.

I have posted about this before. None of my reasons have anything to do with his personality or self-styled conspiracies that he’s suppressing progressive presidential candidates. This is a presidential election, not a popularity contest.

So it’s about ideology, not personality. Which is exactly my point. What people like about him is what could most easily be duplicated.
 
So it’s about ideology, not personality. Which is exactly my point. What people like about him is what could most easily be duplicated.

Yet the Democratic establishment has no interest in duplicating his ideology because its in conflict with the donor class that controls it. When so many forces, inside and outside of the party, are working to suppress the progressive ideology, it kind of makes it hard to duplicate candidates with the ease you suggest.
 
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