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JackRiddler

(24,979 posts)
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 07:13 PM Sep 2015

Biden the new fantasy stalking horse for Clinton supporters

Certain Clinton supporters would have conniptions and deliver condescending lectures if Elizabeth Warren or anyone else not actually running were to be included in the opinion polls conducted by such estimable dispensers of bullshit as CNN & Co. Yet some are now posting and posting and posting these fantasy polls with Biden in them so that Sanders doesn't look that close to Clinton. (Why Biden? Why not George Clooney, or Pope Francis, since they are equally candidates?) At this point I think the Clinton suppoers do this more to reassure themselves than to fool anyone.

Clinton is no doubt the favorite. Sanders' main problem is what it's been all along. He has a small fraction of the Clinton money, little coverage, and dismissive coverage = most people still don't know he exists. Among those who do, it's already a landslide for him over the politics of fake caring and neoliberalism that Clinton (and Clintons generally) have always fought for.

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Biden the new fantasy stalking horse for Clinton supporters (Original Post) JackRiddler Sep 2015 OP
"..most people still don't know he exists. Among those who do, it's already a landslide .." pangaia Sep 2015 #1
John Edwards unavailable? reddread Sep 2015 #2

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
1. "..most people still don't know he exists. Among those who do, it's already a landslide .."
Wed Sep 23, 2015, 07:18 PM
Sep 2015

That I would say, is what has certain people peeing their pants.

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