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Old 09-07-2020, 02:10 PM   #3269
Lanny_McDonald
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To me the biggest reason Sanders & Yang were better candidates were because of their track record on some of the more important issues facing the world right now.
Do tell, do tell!!! What are these policy differences that makes either better than Biden? What are these policy differences that would drive Americans to vote either Sanders or Yang, and that would be deemed acceptable by the vast majority of Americans?

I think you're dead wrong, that neither candidate was any good, because they were not appealing to the majority of Americans. Sanders is a socialist. Just lost 55-60% of the electorate.

https://www.usnews.com/news/election...tial-candidate

"But the term ''socialist'' makes American voters squeamish, the poll found. More voters were willing to vote for a Muslim (66%) or an atheist (60%). And ''socialist'' was the only category of candidate for which the percentage of voters willing to cast a vote for such a contender actually went down from the previous survey, in June 2015."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...overcome-that/

"A January Gallup poll found less than half of Americans, 45 percent, said they would vote for a socialist for president, even if they were well qualified and from their own political party. Being a socialist was the least acceptable of 12 traits measured in the poll — 60 percent said they would vote for an atheist, 69 percent for someone who is over age 70, and 93 percent for a woman."

Yang didn't even carry the Asian vote, but he was going to get the whole party to coalesce around him? Come on.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...ew-yangs-base/

"Morning Consult found Yang at 19 percent among them, behind only Biden (24 percent) and Sanders (22 percent)."
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