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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sadly, 538 is right: Bernie Sanders ain't Barack Obama [View all]joshcryer
(62,297 posts)4. Obama ran a classical route to the Presidency.
Community organizer, Illinois Senate from 1996-2002 (lost the Federal House run in 2000), Senate in 2004, President in 2008. The other route is the State Attorney General, State Governor, Presidency. Arguably Obama ran the much longer and tried method, which is harder to succeed at. Governors have a 2:1 advantage when it comes to running for the Presidency.
I agree that Sanders wouldn't pull a Simpson and Bowles style gambit, but he would never campaign on such non-sense anyway, saying, outright, he'd "put everything on the table." Fortunately Simpson and Bowles was political theater and amounted to nothing.
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Must be disappointing to you to find out this was satire, the title seemed so promising.
corkhead
Aug 2015
#17
How about his Super Pack? He said he would not accept Super Pack money, yet, there he goes
merrily
Aug 2015
#15
It wasn't really created for use with gin but both applications are medicinal.
beam me up scottie
Aug 2015
#72
He's ' An Enemy of the people ' in the Henrik Ibsen sense of the word .
orpupilofnature57
Aug 2015
#26
We need someone who has balance and is used to the high wire act of fence walking/sitting.
L0oniX
Aug 2015
#28
That is the funny thing about Sanders, his views have mostly remained constant ...
slipslidingaway
Aug 2015
#40
No. Of course not. Bush repealed the estate tax -- it was zero in 2009 when Obama took office
progree
Aug 2015
#52
Still, the vast majority of the Bush tax cuts that Obama kept went to the bottom 98%
progree
Aug 2015
#57