Bernie Sanders: "I Am Prepared to Run for President of the United States"

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Sanders isn't a moron he knows that as terrible as Hillary may be, whoever the Republicans nominate will be about a thousand times worse. Should he run, it'd be in the democratic primary.

If anyone is going to push Hillary to the left in the primaries, it's much better for it to be Sanders rather than someone like Schweitzer.

Agreed

[SWE]

Maybe a Sanders third party campaign might focus on states that aren't at risk of going red.  He could put a lot of resources in his home state of Vermont. 

I could see him winning Vermont and one of Main's congressional districts.

Maine is very Independent friendly. I think he'd do very well there

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Doubt he even breaks 1% of the vote a lot of Dems learned from 2000 the consequences of voting for third party candidates.

Evidently the democratic party hasn't learned the consequences of nominating weak candidates that make people want to vote third party

[SWE]

Oh please run as an independent and take votes away from Democrats.

The fact that you think you need a third party candidate to win tells me a lot about the GOP

[SWE]

http://digital.vpr.net/post/sanders-tests-political-waters-new-hampshire

Also, I highly doubt Sanders will run third party. Unlike the suicidal True Leftists on Atlas and the vain egotists like Nader, he understands the importance of compromise and stopping Republicans.

Looks like I was correct.

Brian Schweitzer is a "true leftist" but Bernie Sanders isn't? I guess I just don't understand this "true leftist" term.

The term "true leftist" has no clear definition.

[SWE]

This time around, though, the only way to run against Hillary (or Biden), or get noticed among the pack if she doesn't run, is to stake out a claim as the "true progressive" in the race. These forces are going to pull most Democratic contenders far more to the left than the 08 primary race did.

You say this like it's a bad thing. I bet a liberal like Sherrod Brown could have won the 2008 election.

The Democrats could have nominated a self-identified Marxist in 2008 and still would've won