Synthaholic
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Really good analysis by Nate Silver - you remember him, don't you, conservatives?
Stop Comparing Donald Trump And Bernie Sanders
1. Trump is āwinningā (for now), and Sanders isnāt.
There are lots of reasons to suspect that Trump will fall from his position atop the GOP polls sooner or later, but heād be a favorite to win a hypothetical national primary held today. Sanders, by contrast, trails Hillary Clinton by about 20 percentage points in national polls that include Joe Biden, and by 30 points in polls that donāt.
2. Sanders is campaigning on substantive policy positions, and Trump is largely campaigning on the force of his personality. Iām not sure this assertion requires a lot of proof, but if you need some, check out the candidatesā websites. Sandersās lists dozens of specific policy proposalsacross a wide range of issues; Trumpās details his position on just one, immigration.
3. Sanders is a career politician; Trump isnāt. Letās not neglect this obvious one. Bernie Sanders has been in Congress since 1991, making him one of the most senior members of Congress; Trump has never officially run a political campaign before.
4. Trump is getting considerably more media attention. Trump is aperpetual attention machine who gets a disproportionate amount of media coverage ā as much as the rest of the GOP field combined. Sanders hasnāt been ignored by the press, which wants a horse race between Sanders (or Biden, or anyone!!!) and Clinton. Still, Sandersās media coverage has been paltry compared with Trumpās. According to Yahoo News, Trump has received about 35,000 media āhitsā in the past month, compared with about 9,000 for Sanders. For comparison, Clinton has had 18,000 hits over the same period, and Jeb Bush has had 14,000.
5. Sanders has a much better āground game.ā Trump, in addition to his ubiquity on television, has some semblance of a campaign operation. But Sandersās organization is much larger and more experienced.
6. Sanders holds policy positions of a typical liberal Democrat; Trumpās are all over the place. While Sanders doesnāt officially call himself a Democratā a fact that might annoy Democratic elites ā he takes policy positions that are consistent with those of Democrats in Congress. In the previous Congress (113th), Sanders voted the same as liberal Democratic senators Barbara Boxer, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Sherrod Brown 95 percent of the time or more.1 He voted with party leader Harry Reid 91 percent of the time and the expressed position of President Obama2 93 percent of the time. He also voted with Clinton 93 percent of the time when the two were in the Senate together.
Here are the senators Sanders voted with most and least often in the 113th Congress, according to Voteview.org:
Trumpās positions are harder to pin down ā and he doesnāt have a voting record to evaluate ā but he has far more profound potential differences with the Republican orthodoxy on major issues ranging from taxation to health care to reproductive rights.
More at the LINK
Stop Comparing Donald Trump And Bernie Sanders
1. Trump is āwinningā (for now), and Sanders isnāt.
There are lots of reasons to suspect that Trump will fall from his position atop the GOP polls sooner or later, but heād be a favorite to win a hypothetical national primary held today. Sanders, by contrast, trails Hillary Clinton by about 20 percentage points in national polls that include Joe Biden, and by 30 points in polls that donāt.
2. Sanders is campaigning on substantive policy positions, and Trump is largely campaigning on the force of his personality. Iām not sure this assertion requires a lot of proof, but if you need some, check out the candidatesā websites. Sandersās lists dozens of specific policy proposalsacross a wide range of issues; Trumpās details his position on just one, immigration.
3. Sanders is a career politician; Trump isnāt. Letās not neglect this obvious one. Bernie Sanders has been in Congress since 1991, making him one of the most senior members of Congress; Trump has never officially run a political campaign before.
4. Trump is getting considerably more media attention. Trump is aperpetual attention machine who gets a disproportionate amount of media coverage ā as much as the rest of the GOP field combined. Sanders hasnāt been ignored by the press, which wants a horse race between Sanders (or Biden, or anyone!!!) and Clinton. Still, Sandersās media coverage has been paltry compared with Trumpās. According to Yahoo News, Trump has received about 35,000 media āhitsā in the past month, compared with about 9,000 for Sanders. For comparison, Clinton has had 18,000 hits over the same period, and Jeb Bush has had 14,000.
5. Sanders has a much better āground game.ā Trump, in addition to his ubiquity on television, has some semblance of a campaign operation. But Sandersās organization is much larger and more experienced.
6. Sanders holds policy positions of a typical liberal Democrat; Trumpās are all over the place. While Sanders doesnāt officially call himself a Democratā a fact that might annoy Democratic elites ā he takes policy positions that are consistent with those of Democrats in Congress. In the previous Congress (113th), Sanders voted the same as liberal Democratic senators Barbara Boxer, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Sherrod Brown 95 percent of the time or more.1 He voted with party leader Harry Reid 91 percent of the time and the expressed position of President Obama2 93 percent of the time. He also voted with Clinton 93 percent of the time when the two were in the Senate together.
Here are the senators Sanders voted with most and least often in the 113th Congress, according to Voteview.org:
Trumpās positions are harder to pin down ā and he doesnāt have a voting record to evaluate ā but he has far more profound potential differences with the Republican orthodoxy on major issues ranging from taxation to health care to reproductive rights.
More at the LINK
