Bernie Sanders has been climbing rapidly to the top of the polls among the Democratic Party voters recently, defeating Hillary Clinton by 22.4%. He has been ahead in most Democratic polls for the past couple of weeks, continuing to gain traction for his campaign nationwide, and is now looking at a possible Democratic Party nomination, given the superdelegates and superPACs supporting Clinton don't pay off enough people to kill his chances. The problem being faced, however, is that in addition to the mostly Republican incumbent body of Congressmen, many Americans will not elect somebody based on the stigma they may be stuck with - for example, "socialist". While the difference between socialism and democratic socialism (the latter of which we already have, to an extent) is a fairly large one, not enough people are aware of that and don't want to believe Bernie could be the next President. This has the potential to lead to a landslide victory for any GOP candidate elected if Bernie gets the Democratic ticket, which is quite unfortunate, considering he is one of the most competent and fitting candidates in the race. It would be better for Bernie to come into office and not be able to do anything at all for the country than it would another candidate become elected and send our nation spiraling downwards.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/the-pragmatic-case-for-bernie-sanders/462720/
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