Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumTrump blames the media...and so does Sanders
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Politics makes strange beldfellows...
As for his claim, he's still polling at half his 2016 support and is showing no upward momentum.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
LiberalFighter
(51,084 posts)I wonder what it is about the other half that keeps them from Sanders?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
KPN
(15,650 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
KPN
(15,650 posts)but frankly, I didn't see any great alternatives that matched my positions and priorities on issues nearly as much as he did then. There are several other candidates I am quite high on now. Of those, Warren is my front-runner right now. That doesn't mean Bernie's out of it for me yet, but in a survey asking who I'd likely vote for today, it would be Warren if I had to choose. I suspect there are many like me.
ps -- I have a great admiration for Sanders and will always hold him in high regard for what he has done to raise Americans' awareness.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
ritapria
(1,812 posts)Because he is running against 15 candidates in 2020 It's not a 1-1 race , as it was in 2016 ...He can win Primary and Caucuses in 2020 with 30% support in this multi-candidate field . If he wins Iowa and NH, his present national support ( 17%-18%) could easily vault to 30% .
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
TwilightZone
(25,479 posts)No one outside of Biden, Warren, Harris, and Buttigieg is drawing from his 2016 support in any significant fashion.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Wawannabe
(5,678 posts)🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
yaesu
(8,020 posts)so, as much as corporatists would love to think otherwise, Bernie is right.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
redqueen
(115,103 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
TidalWave46
(2,061 posts)This should be well known to everyone who wasn't born last night. When someone comes along espousing populist rhetoric and railing against the media, run away from them as fast as could be.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,655 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Like Trump, Bernie has been in favor of having his own forum to communicate directly with people without being questioned by the hated media as explained in this article in Mother Jones, a progressive magazine:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/11/bernie-sanders-corporate-media-revolution/
Because Sanders hated 30-second local-news segments and unserious stories, he developed a reputation among the local press corps as antagonistic. (He once brought a 60 Minutes camera crew into the Associated Press Montpelier bureau so the crew could watch him grill reporters about their coverage.) He could be relentlessly on message and took offense when reporters asked him about something other than what he wanted to talk about that day. And he rejected the very idea of news as something that must be new.
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He believed he should have his own forum on television, much like a president, to convey his message without a media filter. When he visited Nicaragua, for instance, hed been enthralled by a television show Ortega hosted, in which Ortega simply spoke with the people, they relayed their concerns, and he made his case. The result was Bernie Speaks With the People, a quirky television show on Chittenden Community Television in Burlington, that allowed Sanders to speak directly to the camera once a week.
When he released his first book, Outsider in the House, in 1997, Sanders, by then a member of the US House of Representatives, took dead aim at what he called Americas untold storycorporate-owned media. The problem with television is not just what is reported but, more importantly, what is not reported, he wrote. Its no accident that we get thousands of hours of discussion about the O.J. Simpson trial and almost no discussion about the growing gap between rich and poor or our regressive tax system. Why is it that there is massive coverage of airplane crashes, but almost no coverage of corporate disinvestment in the United States?
While conservatives howled about their own treatment in the press, at least they had friendly talk shows. [D]espite the fact that 15 million Americans are trade unionists, there isnt one national television program exclusively devoted to discussing the goals and problems of the trade union movement, and the needs of American workers, Sanders complained. In fact, most Americans have never seen even one prime-time television show on the positive role that trade unions have played in protecting the lives of working Americans. (When Ed Schultz, a major union advocate, lost his MSNBC show in July, Sanders tooks the unusual step of releasing a statement, saying he was disappointed that Comcast chose to remove Ed Schultz from its lineup.)
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden