Trump Talk™

There is zero chance Bernie would ever run as a 3rd party presidential candidate.

Because? Don't hurt yourself.

It should be pretty obvious.

Yeah.. It should..

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Saturday that he raised more than $33 million for his primary campaign in the final quarter of 2015, just shy of the $37 million that Hillary Clinton reported a day earlier.

Is a ridiculous statement.

There's the idea, that a failed primary candidate turned independent general candidate would pull votes away. Everyone blames Perot for Clinton.

Sanders has stated he won't go 3 party, and I tend to think he's telling his honesty truth most of the time.

Lack of ego and a strong desire not to hand the election over to the GOP.

Did you seriously just say The Bern is lacking ego?

Let me restate.

Does not have the kind of ego for a third party run.

I don't think you could be in the public eye without some level of megalomania, but Sanders isn't that type to run for the dem nomination then go independent

I like how you guys make it sound like I said he has a 100% chance of doing it.

Then this guy says this.

And I stand by this.

When they make Hillary the nominee, it would not surprise me in the least that The Bern would take his fairly large following and run against her. Mainly because we and he knows she is not going to win anyways.

Either way Trump v Hillary or Bernie is going to be a hilarious thing to watch this year.

Trump has a much better chance of beating Hillary than Sanders. With Hillary he can take her to task over any manner of things, with Sanders all he's got is jibes about socialism, which Sanders has a coherent answer to every one of them. If trump does after him on just about any topic, he's only going to win more undecided voters for the dems.

Its just a conservative fantasy that Bernie would make a third party run. Its not based on any facts. He has gone on the record in saying he won't, there is nothing to suggest he is lying or there is a chance he could change his mind. But the neocons will spend the next 6 months trying to talk about it.

lol yeah, I forgot Democrats don't lie.

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Unless Sanders comes within a few points (~5% maximum) if he loses the nomination to Hillary, I can't see him attempting a 3rd party run.

The silent (although not as silent as one might think) majority of Sanders supporters would vote for Hillary if he loses the nomination.

There must be some statistics somewhere on notable 3rd party presidential candidates when it comes to party nominations they lost, meaning numbers of democrats who lost their party's nomination and went 3rd party versus republicans who lost their party's nomination and went 3rd party. I want to say that it's more often republicans, but it could actually be an even split.

In any case a 3rd party run has never been even remotely successful. I don't see this election being the groundbreaking time where a 3rd party run comes even close to getting double digit electoral votes, never mind actually coming in close to winning. Besides in 24 (I might be wrong on this number but it's around there) states the electoral votes can go for whomever they want, regardless of popular votes or otherwise.

The whole system is pretty defunct at its core to begin with to think some magical 3rd party candidate or even a non-mainstream candidate has a chance to win. Unless you're in a swing state like Ohio, Virginia, or Florida (a few others too) your vote is pretty pointless anyway. Good luck getting California to ever have its electoral votes cast for a republican candidate, for instance.

The whole get out and vote thing, rock the vote, I voted, and so on gimmicks are just feel good moments to make people feel like they matter.

The Democrats had their turn with the WH, Senate, and HofR and now the pendulum is swinging red so just start getting used to a republican president at the end of this year. The big question is who. Bush was supposed to be the guy and still might be. Trump would be funny, but I don't see it happening. Rubio, seems too young, but statistically has shown to hold up against everyone in every match up for awhile now.

It still sounds a little odd to me, President Rubio. Maybe it's just because he's a little young (age 44), but that's where all the numbers point to.

Nothing is 100% though, so it's definitely entertaining to watch.

In a "perfect" world both Sanders and Trump would break off, setting a precedent for four parties. Realistically, we all know that's never going to happen. Too pragmatic of a solution to have a candidate for Evangelical-Theocratic Conservatives, Conservatives, Moderates and Liberals.

I actually would like to hear some convincing arguments about why the 2-parties election system of the US is a good model. Because to me it seems really restrictive.

Only thing I can come up with is most Americans can only pay enough attention to decide what color they like Blue or Red.

Good luck, cause it's a terrible model and most people I've heard from and people on here aren't fans of it either.

^This.^

It funnels people into ideologies that they might not be fully on-board with and compromise with individual principles that may be the antithesis of what they uphold for what a person might perceive as "the greater good" and all that jazz.

It isn't constitutionally mandated you know. Its just tradition.

And today the "Bipartisan Committee on Presidential Debates" was set up to, and intends to, prevent a viable third party from ever existing.

It's interesting that every single person here can agree our two party system is an absolute joke.

We all know it is not going away and the only people that are trying to change the current screwed up Republican Party right now are thought to be worse than the Idiots who are quickly losing the majority.

The main reason Trump is so damn popular, he is seen as outside the Establishment which everyone is so sick of.

Palin Endorsement Widens Trump’s Lead Among Idiots
The New Yorker

lol, Trump has some idiot followers but nowhere near as many as Obama did/does. Can you Imagine an article written like this is 2008 about Obama. The uproar it would have created would have been outrageous.

Is this another of your "Republican" News sources Chanti?

Oh no. The New Yorker has a New York attitude and leans liberal.

Long ago they were kinda Rockefeller republican.

Why do I need to use sarcasm tags all the time! And why choose to answer that and not the entire point before it..

Thanks to Chanti I have to comment on this..

After seeing a few covers of this rag thanks to her, I am really starting to wonder if people still think the Republican party is the racist party?

The hate and racism coming from the left is really starting to show through lately. Wonder why..

The Post is part of the Murdock empire and slightly to the right of Fox "news".

J.J.Christ where the hell do you see racism in that title? It's a reference to the whole diatribe about black actors getting the shaft at oscars(which is debatable but not the point).