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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"if Democrats run an establishment candidate [Clinton] they are going to lose" against Donald Trump
Posted on Mar 10, 2016
At the Democratic debate in Miami on Wednesday, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton each claimed he or she would be the best candidate to run against Republican front-runner Donald Trump in the general election.
To determine whos right, Democracy Now! hosted a debate between Nathan Robinson, editor of Current Affairs magazine, and professor Alan Draper of St. Lawrence University.
Hillary Clinton is not well positioned to capture the particular national mood at the moment, which is an anti-establishment mood, said Robinson. And if the Democrats run an establishment candidate in an anti-establishment election cycle, they are going to lose.
Draper cited the fact that Clinton has been under the scrutiny of the press for far longer than Sanders and is thus unlikely to have any skeletons in her closet that we cant already guess at.
A transcript of the exchange follows.
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/video_hillary_clinton_or_bernie_sanders_who_can_stop_trump_20160310
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"if Democrats run an establishment candidate [Clinton] they are going to lose" against Donald Trump (Original Post)
imagine2015
Mar 2016
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leftofcool
(19,460 posts)1. I guess they haven't seen the brand new poll out today.
imagine2015
(2,054 posts)3. And how does Bernie do in that poll?
All previous polls show Sanders doing better than Clinton against any Republican candidate.
Let's see some more polling that includes, rather than excludes, Sanders.
OK?
PonyUp
(1,680 posts)2. But Bernie supporters will get the blame. nt
MisterP
(23,730 posts)5. 11 Governors, 13 Senators, 69 Reps, 913 state seats later, it's quite clear that the DNC
has no MOTIVE to win: if they win, they have influence; if they lose, they can blame the voters and play underdog and get lots of monay
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)4. She's still under two separate ongoing investigations...
So obviously there's still some vetting going on.