Who Makes a better President for the United States (117)

Hi nonsmoker are you really a nonsmoker or are you an ex-smoker?

really .........
1. After delivering his strongest debate performance yet, Bernie Sanders won every online poll that asked viewers to pick a winner from the third Democratic contest.

2. He now holds a commanding lead over Hillary Clinton in the key state of New Hampshire and continues to gain momentum in Iowa.

3. Sanders won the readers' poll for TIME Person of the Year, topping Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Pope Francis and other world leaders.

4. He earned endorsements from Ronda Rousey, Killer Mike, Leonardo DiCaprio, Danny DeVito, Will Ferrell, Sarah Silverman and Dr. Cornel West.

5. He also secured an important endorsement from the Communications Workers of America union, a group of over 700,000 workers.

6. Sanders then scored big with an unprecedented endorsement from the progressive group, Democracy for America. This marks the first time in history that Democracy for America has endorsed a presidential candidate in the primaries.

7. Last week, Sanders received the final dollars he needed to break a historic milestone. The senator officially hit two million individual campaign contributions, a feat that no other U.S. presidential candidate has achieved at this point in an election.

* To put that number in context, Barack Obama's historic 2008 campaign managed to break just one million contributions. Sanders literally has twice what Obama had. Not only that, but Sanders reached two million faster than President Obama reached one.

8. After the DNC cut off Sanders' access to important voter data last Friday, his supporters rallied and managed to raise over a million dollars in just one day.

9. Although Sanders was not participating in the most recent Republican debate, he posted the most popular tweet of the night and witnessed a larger growth in Twitter followers than any GOP candidate who was debating, Donald Trump included.

10. Speaking of Trump, poll after poll suggests that Sanders is better positioned than Clinton to beat Trump in a head-to-head general election. While the corporate media often point out that Clinton is the one on track to beat the Republican frontrunner, they rarely acknowledge that Sanders is too, and by a wider margin than Clinton.[/quote)

Yes, Purr, really. You don't seem to understand so I'll try again. THERE CAN ONLE BE ONE NOMINEE (and it's likely going to be Hillary). At that point, Sanders is GONE, and so are all these poll predictions you are copying and pasting. Now, should he happen to win the nomination, you still are not taking into account how many Hillary voters, how many registered democrats who vote republican, and how many independents will vote for Trump - so again, you poll is worthless.

In fact, other polling suggest that Trump is already winning in these non-polled areas: According to new data by Civis Analytics, those who identify as Republicans but are actually registered as Democrats support Trump at a HIGHER rate than registered Republicans, and they are also more likely to turn out to vote.

Yes, Purr, really. You don't seem to understand so I'll try again. THERE CAN ONLE BE ONE NOMINEE (and it's likely going to be Hillary). At that point, Sanders is GONE, and so are all these poll predictions you are copying and pasting. Now, should he happen to win the nomination, you still are not taking into account how many Hillary voters, how many registered democrats who vote republican, and how many independents will vote for Trump - so again, you poll is worthless.

In fact, other polling suggest that Trump is already winning in these non-polled areas: According to new data by Civis Analytics, those who identify as Republicans but are actually registered as Democrats support Trump at a HIGHER rate than registered Republicans, and they are also more likely to turn out to vote.

I didn't figure you for a Trump supporter. Are you?

I'm not a big Cruz fan, although I would vote for him over Hillary because at least he ethical while she clearly isn't. My concern is that he has no real skills that I can see. Another Constitutional Lawyer? We saw how well that's worked out. And while I fully support religious rights and the valuable role religion plays in our society, I think it is a serious mistake to base his campaign on evangelical arguments. There are just far too many more pressing concerns when it comes to running this country.

I completely understand what you are saying and I don't really disagree. I just view the government as a completely different kind of entity now that it has grown so large and unmanageable. When I look at candidates, I want to see who can actually go in there and start MANAGING the mismanaged, cumbersome, over-reaching, and corrupt organizations that are consuming vast amounts of tax dollars and ruining American lives. There's more, such as foreign policy, etc. So I'm not discounting the value of religion.. just would prefer my candidate to focus more on other things and not dwell on private religious issues

What about the Kardashians? It would be so much easier to keep up with lol....

Sorry. I keep losing my connection for some reason...

Len... it would probably help if people like Buffet actually paid their taxes, but I don't think he has. The problem with Sanders is that America fundamentally NOT a socialist country and it does not want to be. If it works for others, that's fine, but we haven't seen any compelling evidence that any one country is doing better as a result of socialism. What we see as Americans, it the rise of progressive/socialist policy which has BURDENED us in more ways that we can count. We've seen what "change" has done for us in the past seven years and it isn't pretty at all. Sanders is proposing lots of "free" ideas with not one single feasibility study to back up his claims. Our working, productive citizens are taking on MUCH bigger tax burdens while the corporations are taking on more and more costly regulations while the Bid Daddy government is literally throwing the money out the window. In short, the big government that liberals seem to worship is failing, and we know it. We've not about to let it get bigger because of some pie-in-the-sky ideas that have no logistical foundation

Socialism? Where? I see no cooperative ownership of the means of production. I'm not even quite sure where Bernie stands on nationalisation.

As far as I'm he wants to increase maternalism/welfare which formerly was a social safety net for big capitalism as much as anyone else. Not only in the direct sense by bailing out the banks, but it is what prevented the poor from hanging the rich in a society of widespread and increasing inequality. That's what makes me laugh about the stereotypical American right and it's complete absence of a plan for the poor. It's almost as if they've forgotten that welfarism was a measure designed to prevent socialism.

The problem is that all they have managed to do is increase the social safety net with dollars and NO SOLUTIONS. Your "laughing about the stereotypical American right" only proves you do not understand the American experience or really what you are talking about. We have a plan for the poor and it's what propelled us to greatness in the first place: it's called JOBS and the free market system. It wasn't until the radical new progressives got their choke hole on America that we started "deamonizing" the very corporations that built our middle class - and government over-reach began regulating them into corners.

Don't even bother trying to deny this to me because I LIVED it. I came out of school and witnessed corporations offering job fairs, job training, comprehensive retirement and benefit packages, etc... because they were prospering, growing and there was serious COMPETITION for workers. If we were not qualified, they would TRAIN us FREE OF CHARGE. Then big daddy government stepped in, started monkeying with their everything, and the ritz hit the fan.

Nope...you simply do not understand