Bernie LOST governor and senate races in '72, '74, '76, and '86. Were those "rigged" too?

[RBInMaine]

Bernie lost multiple elections across the 70's and 80's (and won some too as mayor of Burlington) in VT.

Were those elections "rigged"? Hmmm... Gee, they must have been! Let's go back and investigate!! Let's challenge them!! How could voters possibly choose someone other than Bernie???!!!! ARRRRGGGG!!!!!

[Live and Learn]

1. Did anyone claim they were? No? What is the point of this asinine post then? nt

[Hortensis]

8. Are you sure he didn't? Barney Frank said back

in the very early 1990s that Sanders' basic assumption was that everyone in politics who disagreed with him was corrupt; to him, there was "no such thing as honest disagreement." Frank still says that. This isn't a dysfunction that showed up with age. He's always been that way.

[Live and Learn]

13. All that shows is that Frank is having some psychological problems. nt

[Hortensis]

14. Bizarre take, imo. Barney Frank was one of

the most effective, admired and respected people in government, among both his colleagues and professional observers, and now that he is retired he is still one of the most admired and respected. Did you know that a Nobel prize-winning economist felt that Frank was one of only 3 n all of Congress with a good understanding of economic issues?

He is the man you want Bernie Sanders, unadmired and not particularly respected by his colleagues, to be.

[Live and Learn]

17. 'Was', is the key word here. Something has obviously changed. nt

[mythology]

15. Or it shows that Sanders is a demagogue who can't handle disagreement

There's a reason he dishonestly went after Clinton on family medical leave because he decided the approach he took was the only correct one.

[Ash_F]

2. I am sure the establishment placed their thumb on the scales back then too.

[Ash_F]

3. I think the real question you should be asking

is whether the wealthy should have unequal over the poor.

[seabeyond]

4. No, they weren't rigged. The first he won to congress was though. He sold his vote to Democrats

to not run a viable candidate so he could win.

Seems like he is trying to rig this one too, ignoring voters to overturn the peoples voice. shame on him.

[seabeyond]

6. Clinton didn't cry cheating and come up with CT's, threatening to obstruct the voice of the people.

[KingFlorez]

7. Of course they were

Any race that he loses is rigged according his supporters. I bet you could find very intricate theories of fraud about those races somewhere online.

[JCanete]

9. Were you there to throw up the same BS when Gore lost to W? You would have been

a welcome addition to his team. What's really obnoxious about posts like this is that they are designed to make questioning the authority a laughable thing. Does that sound like the sort of message you stand for? If so, then well done!!!

If not, why are you posting this shit? Why not take the individual arguments and refute them? Post like this have no value but to try to paint people who are untrusting of the system into crazy conspiracy theorists. But the fact is, our system IS rigged. We can point to so many different moments but they're always in the past, long after the fact, after the damage has been done, because there are always people like you to laugh at accusations in the moment.

[zappaman]

10. Yes. n/t

[politicaljunkie41910]

12. Obviously it was DWS's fault and the system is rigged.

[Vinca]

16. So? What's your point? Hillary lost a presidential election.

People win, people lose. The anointed one may experience a second loss to the Trumpenfuhrer since she's barely ahead of him at this point and he hasn't really started hammering her. I dare say that will be more significant to the country than a Vermont governor's race.

[lancer78]

18. These elections were not rigged

Sanders just failed to get enough AA voters to support him in the southern states.

[QC]

19. Is Paul LePage still the governor of Maine?

If so, you could better spend your time by working in the real world to get rid of him than by posting tedious, repetitive tantrums on the internet.

[Sheepshank]

20. Bernie Started winning after NRA pitched in

NRA being a corporation, representing the gun mfg, a huge huge corporation and all, I have yet to see any outrage over that by a BSer.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-nra-helped-put-bernie-sanders-in-congress/2015/07/19/ed1be26c-2bfe-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/bernie-sanders-awkward-history-with-guns-in-america-119185

http://theweek.com/speedreads/567392/nra-helped-elect-bernie-sanders-1990

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/07/nra-helped-bernie-sanders-get-elected

[Logical]

21. Lol, you are so rude and whine every post! Nt

[Kentonio]

22. Bernie built an independent political career from literally nothing.

He didn't just get handed one of the safest senate seats in the country just because he was married to an ex-president, despite never having run for anything in his life.