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Nader ran third-party...Bernie is running as a Democrat...And will support the Dem nominee... (Original Post) Ken Burch Feb 2016 OP
Will his followers support the Dem nominee? If he can't undo the effects of his Naderite DanTex Feb 2016 #1
+1. Hoyt Feb 2016 #4
Disagreeing with HRC does not equal "Naderism". Ken Burch Feb 2016 #5
You have to understand that we are considered Warren Stupidity Feb 2016 #2
You're exactly right. MineralMan Feb 2016 #3
If Bernie and Hillary are not campaigning together after the convention... Mike Nelson Feb 2016 #6
Bernie is like Nader because of sparse, but big non-diverse rallies, and will fail to win. onehandle Feb 2016 #7

DanTex

(20,709 posts)
1. Will his followers support the Dem nominee? If he can't undo the effects of his Naderite
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 09:16 PM
Feb 2016

rhetoric when it comes time to endorse Hillary, the comparison might not be so bogus.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
5. Disagreeing with HRC does not equal "Naderism".
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 09:24 PM
Feb 2016

It's not as though he was obligated to treat her as though she would probably be nominated and that he shouldn't even have taken his own campaign seriously.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
3. You're exactly right.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 09:22 PM
Feb 2016

Sanders is not running n g a third party spoiler campaign. If he is not successful in becoming the nominee, he will endorse the Democratic nominee. The inverse is also true. We'd all do well to recognize that, I think.

Mike Nelson

(9,958 posts)
6. If Bernie and Hillary are not campaigning together after the convention...
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 09:34 PM
Feb 2016

...we lose. I think they will do the correct thing.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
7. Bernie is like Nader because of sparse, but big non-diverse rallies, and will fail to win.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 09:43 PM
Feb 2016

But he won't bring us a George W. Bush like Nader did, that much is true.

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