01-27-2017, 08:05 AM
(01-26-2017, 11:54 PM)hMillhouse Wrote: Funny thing is I would have voted for Biden over every candidate there was from 3rd parties to the primary candidates. And I bet if he ran against Trump, he probably would have won since he would have been a far better candidate than Hillary was with much less baggage for the right to hammer on.
I think Biden or Sanders could have one. Both have the same sort of populist appeal, Biden simply because he is a decent human being and people get that. Yes, he was tainted by being friends with a black dude, but he is an old white dude so racists would have seen it as setting things straight: du prezdint posed to be ol' an white. To more rational people, he's like Poppy Bush or Jimmy Carter - you may not like their policy position but no denying they are fundamentally decent people and you can't fake that. And, Sanders connected with voters on the same visceral level as Trump - he gets the middle class anger - but instead of blowing his own horn and scapegoating immigrants Sanders offered real economic solutions. I'd like to think (and a lot of polling data supports this) that Americans would have chosen real solutions over hollow (and ugly) slogans.
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