Yes, the other 48 states are completely more important than IA and NH is terms of getting to pick the Democratic nominee because of obvious reasons, but IA and NH are the most important up until February 9 because of their massive influence on the rest of the race.

I didn't say he wasn't but i still feel it's a reach to expect bernie to win some other big ones over hillary, even when he has NH. That's my opinion lol. But it's pretty cool to have someone from another country interested in our politics. USA is global! other countries could never.

That's nothing like what I think at all??? There was enough passion and support for abolition to cause a Civil War. I don't believe that we're even a fraction of the way there.

I mean, when my reasons are not only personal views but also logical assessments of whether we *literally can even do it at all*, I just don't get where you can judge or oppose my actual reasons.

If there was support for all these things, I still wouldn't necessarily agree with them! I wouldn't agree with a $15 minimum wage because we can't economically handle it. I wouldn't support a significant revision of health care if we can bring the existing legislation to full and effective coverage more quickly and benefit more people. I wouldn't support certain economic and smoking measures if they're not going to be particularly consequential or effective.

It's more than just "we can't do it," but I also really think - not in a pessimistic way but in a raw-numbers actual limits way - that we seriously can't do it. The support and passion just is not there in the same way as other historical progressive movements. This isn't Lincoln and abolition; this isn't FDR and the New Deal. It's no the same as historic movements right now.

I don't think the situations are analogous to make the comparison that people who are skeptical of Bernie's policies have a similar mindset to the people who were skeptical of getting rid of slavery.

The US being global and my citizenship status have nothing to do with it, I lived in New Hampshire for a year and it's kinda hard to live in NH or IA without getting dragged into American politics.

Just as some perspective on their influence, no Dem has won both since 1972 and still lost the nomination, so it's very important that Hillary kicked his butt with her measly little fourth of a percent win.

Amen to that

I will never get your usage of "kicked his butt" and "measly little fourth of a percent win" in the same sentence.

Thank God you're hot.

Thankfully South Carolina, Hillary's strongest state, is right before the onslaught of Super Tuesday. That should help her momentum if she holds there.

Mess @ Senator McCaskill acting like she's a victim and I'm a predator, she knew what she was doing when she threw shade at Bernie.

https://twitter.com/clairecmc/status/695321267323461632

It's just part of my brand of light humor.

Wait @ you dragging McCaskill

I think young people look to issues like gay marriage or the new deal and mistakenly think that's the normal amount of time change happens in. It's not. It took over 100 years after the civil war for african americans to come even close to equality. we are still fighting over abortion rights 40 years after roe v wade. Our schools still aren't desegregated and we aren't even trying to integrate anymore. our last major immigration reform happened under Reagan. And that's by design! our government is designed with a ridiculous amount of checks and balances, limiting the power that one single presidential administration has to enact radical changes. Expecting Bernie's administration to be that different from Hillary's is crazy when they won't control the house, will probably barely control the senate and won't control the supreme court. This is not going to be a transformative election unless a republican wins, which makes the Bernie candidacy poorly timed and pointless beyond keeping income inequality in the national conversation.

Claire McCaskil attended the Born This Way Ball which basically makes her the most progressive member of the U.S. Government.

ff

Claire is my senator. Pretty sure she kills people on the daily, love her.

New poll. Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders 74%-17% of likely black voters in South Carolina. Just watched CNN on it, I think it's a Washington Post poll.

But the NAACP president endorsed Bernie and both pundits agreed that Bernie hasn't had any play on black voters yet nationwide.

edit: just checked. Former NAACP president

She leads likely black voters 82-8% nationally according to PPP today. That's crazy.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/all...ist-2016-02-04

This is my favorite thing

I think this is a great post. Sometimes people do underestimate how much time it takes for radical change to actually take place; I agree with you.