Hilary's campaign is barely even in full swing. Once she gets punching next year, don't expect Bernie to pose a threat. (Early) Polls are deceiving. For example, Obama was nowhere in sight during early polls. He came swinging in the election year though and snatched Hilary.

Bernie is already doing the most he can and is reaching his max audience (youth, super left). Nobody else will bite once it's actually time to vote. I can't see any near neutral Republicans voting for him in the general nor older Democrats going for him in the primaries (since they're already sold on Hilary and at the prospect of Joe Biden).

Good luck to him though but I highly doubt he'll be president. If it's not Hilary, it will easily be Jeb.

Please beat Hilary

The difference between this and Obama is that Obama pretty unknown and then people were taken up in the zeitgeist. Pretty much all the Dem candidates are known and are all now trying to sound like Bernie. This is very different.

I don't care who wins, just as long as it's not a republican.

The people they poll:



Have fun with that America

I see all the doubters are nowhere to be found...

i cant wait for all the meltdowns when he wins the whole thing.

He still gonna lose

Wow he spoke at the ATRL convention?

how narrow-minded. your puny little brain doesn't deserve oxygen

King

People don't seem to have very strong opinions about him. The Iowa poll shows that 43% of voters there either don't know (or care) enough about him to have a favorable or unfavorable opinion.

C'mon Bern!

What the **** is wrong with you

At this stage in the election, this is NOT a bad thing. It means even considering all the people who view him favorably, he still has a ton more to sway. Unlike a lot of the other popular-yet-polarizing candidates. Sanders was NEVER going to win the early media battle (which is 80% name recognition), especially without the support of a lot of ads which his competitors will certainly have. He's been gunning for the debates this whole time (even requesting more debates), as that is where he will sway all the undecided voters and win the election. He also needs the internet, but he seems to be winning there too.

Edit: To clarify, being unknown at this stage in the current republican primary is certainly a bad thing, as if you don't make it to the debates... But in the democratic with two(!) candidates (granted I think there are one or two more polling at like <4%) that just means he'll have plenty of opportunity to appeal to the ppl who aren't sure about Hillary in the coming months.

he won't win. i agree with his politics as much as anyone but he just won't. anyone who's even close to moderate won't vote for him. the people who go to these rallies are all far left people that would've voted for the main democrat candidate no matter who they were, so they're not new voters and won't raise his numbers in the overall election any more than any other democrat. actually, you should be praying he doesn't win the primary, because if he does there's no chance that a republican won't be president. not only will he not win on his own, but moderate democrats put off by his strong left leanings might vote for an independent candidate instead, which will split the democrat's base votes and lead to an easy victory for republicans. i don't know about you, but i would much rather hilary than jeb bush or god knows who else becomes a leading republican candidate.