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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)"Only Hillary can stop Bernie Sanders from being US President, says Michael Moore" [View all]
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"If everybody shows up to vote, Bernie Sanders will be the next President of the United States," predicts Michael Moore, the provocative filmmaker whose Fahrenheit 9/11 remains the highest-grossing documentary of all time.
"But first," he adds, "he has to get through the hurdles of the Democratic Party, which does not want him as their nominee."
Moore ... pays far more attention to the politics of the US than most, and is convinced the only way Donald Trump could become the next president assuming the Republican establishment doesn't find some way to block his seemingly inevitable nomination is if he squares off against Hillary Clinton rather than Sanders....
"Keep this statistic in mind: 81 per cent of this country is either women, people of colour or young adults under the age of 35. That's who's voting this year, and Mr Trump has done marvellously offending all three of those groups of people. The chance of him winning is only possible if people stay home on election day."
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Attorney in Texas
Apr 2016
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Actually, the pledged delegate count is stopping Bernie from getting anywhere near the Presidency.
Metric System
Apr 2016
#7
Exactly. It's telling that none of his Senate colleagues have endorsed him. Compare this with 2008
Metric System
Apr 2016
#12
Given the state of washington, and Hillary as opponent, I neither want nor expect Senate endorsement
Land Shark
Apr 2016
#18
Bernie has been in Congress for 1/4 century and has no allies in the Senate?
redstateblues
Apr 2016
#21
Agreed. And Bernie now says he doesn't expect to get his agenda through in a first term.
politicaljunkie41910
Apr 2016
#17
Quite true. Only Hillary can stop Sanders, Dem primary is the presidency this year
Land Shark
Apr 2016
#16
I think the PTB hoped Trump's neofascism would actually make corporatism seem appealing
RufusTFirefly
Apr 2016
#19
I thought Bernie was supposed to drive turnout to historic levels in the primaries
redstateblues
Apr 2016
#22
Are you misinformed or deliberately misleading? New Hampshire was a primary, Oklahoma was a primary,
Attorney in Texas
Apr 2016
#25