Elections Bernie Sanders Leads Trump, All 2020 Candidates in Donations From Active-Duty Troops

Bernie Sanders leads Donald Trump in polls, even when you remind people he’s a socialist
Socialism is unpopular, but America’s leading socialist isn’t.

It is difficult to know whether that’s true or not, but a recent message-testing experiment run by the progressive group Data for Progress at least calls that theory into question.

In their experiment, tagging Sanders as a socialist did not seem to undermine his campaign — something we’ve also seen over the years in Vermont. Sanders consistently does a bit better in elections for his Senate seat than you would expect from the state’s baseline party lean.

The poll: Calling Sanders a socialist doesn’t change much
Data for Progress used the Lucid survey sampling platform to test three different versions of a Sanders and Trump polling matchup question. The survey was in the field from January 9 to January 19 of 2020 and ran these three polls:

  • No information: “If the 2020 U.S. Presidential election was held today, who would you vote for if the candidates were Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump?”
  • Partisan cues: “If the 2020 U.S. Presidential election was held today, who would you vote for if the candidates were Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump?”
  • Socialists and billionaires: “If the 2020 U.S. Presidential election was held today, who would you vote for if the candidates were Democrat Bernie Sanders, who wants to tax the billionaire class to help the working class and Republican Donald Trump, who says Sanders is a socialist who supports a government takeover of healthcare and open borders?”
In all three versions, Bernie beats Trump, albeit by slightly different margins. Sanders does best in the version of the question that provides no information at all. Giving the candidates their partisan labels increases Sanders’s lead somewhat, and giving the hypothetical messages leaves Sanders with a lead that’s somewhere in between the two other scenarios.

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Underrated post.

Chairman Bern's rise to power is now inevitable.

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I CANNOT wait until all you enemies of the revolution get sent away to the re-education camps.
 
Bernie is a terrible candidate and can't win. He polls well in a national poll cause its head to head with Trump who is an even worse candidate nationally. An electoral college victory he cannot get. The Dem party should take this into consideration.
 
Congressmen Ron Paul also received more donations from active duty members of the military than any other candidate running in his race.

We all remember the reign of President Paul. Oh, wait.......
I liked RP and his idea of basically resetting a lot of the govt. Bernie would do the opposite, he'd strengthen it and make it even more unwieldy. Capitalism needs to be fixed. It doesn't need a sex change
 

this is such a good gif, but to go through all that work & not decrease the saturation on Bernie, shit like that irritates me.
 
Hillary is gonna win in 2016, she overwhelmingly leads the polls.
Also, DNC is gonna fuck Bernie over (again) along with every other establishment. It’s rigged and you know it (see CNN).
 
Weird considering how much funding he’d most likely cut off from them were he elected..
 
Bernie is a terrible candidate and can't win. He polls well in a national poll cause its head to head with Trump who is an even worse candidate nationally. An electoral college victory he cannot get. The Dem party should take this into consideration.


The bern is out performing Biden in Florida, and is a better candidate for the Rust belt.
 
The one who "takes runny shits on service members" also praises more of them than the others and increased their budget while the others are proposing to cut their budget and raise their taxes.



Indeed. This is why I’m wondering about the donations.
 
I'm probably voting for Bernie, and donated to his campaign, you utter fuckwit. lol never change.



Was gonna say I thought you supported him. Jack I know doesn’t..
 
Lol, how much do you think employing all those military folk costs?

1 or 2 F-35's?



Irrelevant to downsizing if we’re being honest. If they aren’t doing anything then numbers aren’t needed -he’ll downsize and weaken the military which on a long enough timeline at a critical tipping point when other super powers are starting to emerge could be devestating to our standing globally. There’s levels to this shit and if Bernie isn’t going to keep our military extremely powerful we’ll be levels below at a bargaining table.


We are a super power - that is directly connected to our military standing.
 
Irrelevant to downsizing if we’re being honest. If they aren’t doing anything then numbers aren’t needed -he’ll downsize and weaken the military which on a long enough timeline at a critical tipping point when other super powers are starting to emerge could be devestating to our standing globally. There’s levels to this shit and if Bernie isn’t going to keep our military extremely powerful we’ll be levels below at a bargaining table.


We are a super power - that is directly connected to our military standing.


I'll tell you what. You keep saying Sanders is going to downsize the military like that is a effective attack, and I will just shut up, and let you talk.
 
I'll tell you what. You keep saying Sanders is going to downsize the military like that is a effective attack, and I will just shut up, and let you talk.



Admittedly a bit of a rant there but..You don’t think cutting military spending and removing them from the field will result in them downsizing?


The point I was really trying to make is that downsizing means many of them won’t be needed therefore they won’t even be in the military..
 
Admittedly a bit of a rant there but..You don’t think cutting military spending and removing them from the field will result in them downsizing?


The point I was really trying to make is that downsizing means many of them won’t be needed therefore they won’t even be in the military..

I don't because our military is undermanned, as it is now. The defense contractors have been prioritized over a standing fighting force.

The one place the military doesn't need to be LEAN'd out is its head count.

Edit: BTW I finally found a place that I want corporate bean counters to go, other than to hell. We need to bring LEAN to our military. Let's draft all the corporate bean counters.
 
Admittedly a bit of a rant there but..You don’t think cutting military spending and removing them from the field will result in them downsizing?


The point I was really trying to make is that downsizing means many of them won’t be needed therefore they won’t even be in the military..
We're just going to cut out all of their tools, vehicles and weapons and still have all of the soldiers, but they're going to war in a ford Taurus apparently.
 
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