Quote:
Originally Posted by rubecube
Again, you're just pulling stuff out of your ass. Bernie is neck and neck with Trump in North Carolina and Georgia. Add Stacy Abrams to the ticket and he has an excellent chance at Georgia and coin flip chance at North Carolina. At that point he would only need Pennsylvania and Michigan, which will almost assuredly go for Sanders.
With regards to Ohio, the latest Emerson poll (which tends to lean Republican) had Sanders +6 in a head-to-head with Trump. Granted that poll is from October and comes with all the caveats of state polling and head to head hypotheticals, but this is hardly the foregone conclusion you keep asserting it is.
|
Americans are still Americans, and they haven't all of a sudden shifted hard left, and won't do so if the economy is humming (selfishness still prevails for most voters). Also worth noting Bernie is one of the most kid gloves handled candidates ever. Hillary never went after him very hard in 2016 because she didn't want to piss off his hardcore support, and Warren briefly tried this time (and on something pretty irreverent) and look what happened to her. The GOP will have no such qualms as painting him as cool with Castro and the Sandinistas. Once he starts going through the grinder you can quite obviously expect him to take some hits. With Trump his negatives are already priced in, Bernie has a lot more beating up to take.