[...] The headline of Cillizza’s Sanders crowd piece is: “20,000 People Came to See Bernie Sanders in Boston. Why Aren’t We Talking More About It?” That’s a good question. Like, why aren’t we talking about it when we’re getting excited three months later about Trump drawing 60 percent fewer people?
I guess the answer to that is implicit in a piece Cillizza posted a little more than a week later (10/14/15 <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/10/12/why-bernie-sanders-isnt-going-to-be-president-in-5-words/>), headlined “Why Bernie Sanders Isn’t Going to Be President, in Five Words.” The five words, if you’re wondering, are “I am a democratic socialist.” And that makes you ineligible to be president, in Cillizza’s view, since only 3 in 10 people say they have a favorable opinion of socialism <http://www.people-press.org/2011/12/28/little-change-in-publics-response-to-capitalism-socialism/>and 61 percent express an unfavorable opinion of it. As it happens, those were almost exactly the favorable/unfavorable numbers for the Republican Party the last time *CBS* polled about it (10/4-8/15 <http://www.pollingreport.com/rep.htm>)—32 percent favorable, 59 percent unfavorable—but nobody says that means it’s impossible for a Republican to be elected president. [...] - Trump Amazes WaPo Columnist by Drawing 60% Fewer People Than Sanders http://fair.org/home/trump-amazes-wapo-columnist-by-drawing-60-fewer-people-than-sanders/ === Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1
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