…from the Hill….
Progressive journalist: Democrats don’t want to believe Sanders can beat Trump
Progressive journalist Ryan Grim argued Monday that Democrats don’t want to believe that top-tier presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a real shot at winning the Democratic nomination and beating President Trump.
“The electorate that he’s running in is the worst possible for him … specifically, the idea that so many Democrats are just hellbent on beating Trump,” Grim, who is Washington bureau chief for The Intercept, told Hill.TV.
“You can give them all the polls that have ever been conducted that show that Bernie Sanders would beat Trump, they just don’t want to believe it,” he added.
Grim’s comments come after a CBS poll released Sunday showed Sanders leading the Democratic presidential primary field in New Hampshire with 27 percent support.
Former Vice President Joe Biden trails Sanders, at 25 percent support, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) garnered 18 percent support. Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg placed fourth at 13 percent.
The survey also found Sanders in a three-way tie with Biden and Buttigieg in Iowa….
Note…
This Hill post makes NO mention of the states AFTER Iowa and New Hampshire, where Biden LEADS in almost all….
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If Sanders wins both Iowa and New Hampshire, and Biden is not at least a close second in both, Biden’s campaign will basically be over. The same for Warren, since Sanders would have beaten her twice from the same pool of voters.
Traditionally, this would indicate a Sanders nomination wining both of those states, but yes, there would be tremendous push-back to find “someone else.” Most likely though, the party will have moved on from Biden and be looking at Buttigieg, Klobuchar, or Bloomberg.
Biden is currently on his second bus tour in the state the most recent poll has him tied with Sanders and Buttigieg which means Pete is fading….
I believe he’s third in NH. but within the MOE there ….
Biden is finally working his ass off for the win….
His lead in Nev, SC , Ca and Tex isn’t gonna evaporate…
The fact that they have to keep re-naming the bus tour shouldn’t inspire much confidence.
I disagree…..
Biden was NOT accessible earlier …,
He has made himself available in Iowa which is what is needed there….
He’ll do the same IN NH if he’s serious there
I’m old enough to have been a McGovernite in 1972 (while Jack was rooting for Scoop Jackson, the Senator from Boeing).
And I realize now that that was probably a mistake, George McGovern, like Bernie Sanders, did have some counter-appeal to those blue-collar hardhats, but it wasn’t (even without Watergate sabotage) enough to outweigh Nixon’s appeal to other blue-collar voters and to other mass audiences.
I wasn’t keen on Ed Muskie (the favorite of both George Meany’s AFL-CIO and Michael Harrington, the pro-peace Socialist leader) but had he not been torpedoed in New Hampshire by the “Canuck” canard of William Loeb’s Manchester Union-Leader, he no doubt would have put up a much stronger fight against Richard Nixon.
On the other hand, although a McCarthy supporter in 1968, I (like many other progressives) found Eugene McCarthy’s 1972 campaign to be too removed and too flaky to work.
If it’s of the slightest interest to anyone, the progressive wing of the just-about-to-split Socialist Party (now DSA) was split four ways, most favoring either Muskie or McGovern, with a few supporting Hubert Humphrey and a couple supporting McCarthy. The more conservative wing, later Social Democrats USA, and birthplace of several future neo-conservative luminaries, split between Muskie, Humphrey and Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson.
Let’s also remember that the Scoop”Jack”sonian wound up voting to reelect President Nixon that fall.
If Sanders is nominated, how many of the reluctant Hillary 2016 voters (and there were a lot of them) will feel they have no choice but to vote to reelect Trump? Especially if they feel they are better off economically than they were four years ago.
Yes and that was a mistake on my part.
Too bad about Scoop Jackson though.I think he would have made a good President
I wonder what UK Prime Minister Corbyn thinks of Sanders’ electability in the U.S….