Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/14/none-of-the-above-party.html
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Bernie Sanders is the least popular candidate among Republican redistricting experts, voter purge specialists, state judges, and Electoral College delegates, who could determine the outcome of the 2020 election.
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[sung to the tune of “x gonna give it to ya”]
ZOOMER WAVE GONNA SOCIALIZE YA
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comedy option: he loses the nomination but warren makes him head of the state department
Well boomers, it’s young people’s future that’s at stake, not yours.
So hey, why not let them have it!
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all i know is, the young’uns BETTER turn out the vote this year. i’m sick to death of the alternative. i’ve put all my hope in the kids.
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It’s your future, kids – get out and vote. Preferably for whichever person receives the Dem nomination (one hopes Sanders and/or Warren, but if it’s Uncle Joe or Wall Street Pete just hold your nose and consider the alternative).
Or, y’know…
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If he doesn’t get the nomination, will they be all butthurt and get Trump elected…again.
I’d keep a healthy dose of skepticism here, it was widely expected that young people would turn out in their droves for Labour in the last British elections and we know how that turned out.
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Yes, it was all Bernie’s fault we have a tRump-Nazi in the White-R-House. Thanks for straightening that out for the rest of us.
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I think @SamWinston just remembers news about Sanders voters voting for Trump instead of Clinton.
“Two surveys estimate that 12 percent of Sanders voters voted for Trump. A third survey suggests it was 6 percent. […] Even if we assume that the overall percentage of Sanders supporters who voted for Trump was 6 percent and not 12 percent, and assume therefore that we can cut every state estimate in half, the estimated number of Sanders-Trump voters would still exceed Trump’s margin of victory.” WAPO, 2017
The article concludes that we’ll never know for sure, and many of those “Sanders-Trump” might never have been “predisposed to support Clinton in the first place”.
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The problem here is that for decades now we have been promised that the ‘youth vote’ will save us, and then the fuckers refuse to actually vote.
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If that video was played during the debates as a comercial, hell- during the superbowl- it would lead to unprecedented voter turnout.
If Bloomberg wants to actually make a difference, he can, right now- by leaving himself out of it, and paying to play that ad instead of his likely vapid one during the Superbowl.
If I hit the lottery before the election- I swear to everyone at BB I will find a way to pay for that to air during the superbowl.
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Lets hope that the DNC does not conspire against Bernie like they did in 2016. I bet that there are talks in deep dark DNC corridors about how Biden has a better chance against the Umpa Lumpa so they should pull a fast one and rig the primary again.
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I don’t know for certain. Probably not.
If he does get the nomination, are the centrists going to be all butthurt and get Trump elected with Clintons4McCain style groups?
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Yeah, but I think the point is more that if Sanders does get the nom, it’s likely that a lot more of those fuckers WILL vote.
Enough to save us? Well, how about we help him win the nom, and then we’ll see?
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They’ll certainly give it the ol’ college try. Although they’re more likely to go for a third-candidate plutocratic spoiler rather than voting directly for Trump.
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Is the suggestion that it was Bernie’s fault, or that it was the fault of (enough of) his supporters?
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