Must-read tweet about general election polls in February.

[RandySF]

Link to tweet

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[Callado119]

1. BS would be a Dukakis or worse in terms of how much he'd lose by..

...a truly disastrous candidate...he would collapse after just a few weeks of real vetting...even a major recession couldn’t save him...kiss the house goodbye if he’s the nominee...hopefully there’s still time to stop it..

[David__77]

4. Untrue.

...

[jimfields33]

6. Saturday is going to be interesting

Looks like sanders is gaining on Biden.

[Demsrule86]

8. Operation chaos. The GOP fears Biden but not Sanders.

[jimfields33]

9. Their funeral

[Demsrule86]

12. Our funeral as Sanders goes down in flames. Vote blue but for

God's sake nominate someone who has a chance.

[jimfields33]

17. I am

Why pick a candidate that barely fills a classroom or even a decent sized room. Bernie fills stadiums. Get people in droves to vote for him. He’s won two states and tied in one. No other candidate is even close to that.

[ehrnst]

21. You mean like if the audience doesn't give Bernie a standing ovation, then Bloomberg has

filled the audience with paid participants?

[BootinUp]

2. Bingo Baby. Nt

[David__77]

3. Jesse Jackson should have been the nominee in 1988.

And Shirley Chisholm in 1972.

[HarlanPepper]

18. Wouldn't have mattered much.

Both would have been steamrolled.

[Cha]

5. Exactly true. TY

[jmg257]

7. Which candidate is unvetted?? These guys/gals have been attacked & attacking each

other for a LONG time.

[fallout87]

10. So what happens

When you take that logic and apply it to all candidates ? Basically any of them could lose

[DanTex]

11. Sigh. Another Republican attacking Bernie.

It's ludicrous to say Bernie isn't "vetted". He's easily the most vetted candidate in the field. The media has been dumping oppo on him for months, and now the other candidates, Bloomberg in particular, are doing the same.

It's also funny that anti-Bernie people are simultaneously (A) saying polls at this stage don't matter and (B) cherry-picking polls to claim that Bernie would do worse against Trump than other candidates.

[DanTex]

15. Right? And a long primary campaign in 2016, and now Bloomberg's billions attacking him,

and still he's not "vetted". Do they expect anyone to buy that?

[ehrnst]

19. Ironic.

[ehrnst]

20. Actually, the Democratic party in Vermont clears the way of any Democratic challengers

to Bernie and has since 2006.. He runs on the Democratic party ticket in the primary, then declines the nomination. The Vermont Democratic party won't support any challengers with party resources.

So no, he doesn't 'defeat' Democrats, he owes his primary wins to the Vermont Democratic Party, which generously hands him the primary.

A small very white rural state, where he fled all the noise and danger of the civil rights movement right after college doesn't mind this. The rest of the country, however is more diverse. Vermont, where he has the way paved for him, isn't anything like the rest of the country.