Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders followed in Sen. Cory Booker's footsteps on Tuesday night by indicating he would consider a woman running mate should he win the party's nomination.
"I think we would look for somebody who is maybe not of the same gender that I am, and maybe someone who might be a couple of years younger than me, and somebody who can take the progressive banner as vice president and carry it all over this county to help us with our agenda, and help us to rally the American people," Sanders told The Young Turks, a left-leaning media organization.
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The old Bolshevik is looking for a younger woman lol.
Some things never change.
Could democrats be any more beholden to identify politics? That’s a rhetorical question.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
i thought Dems didn't believe in gender?I think we would look for somebody who is maybe not of the same gender that I am
Nordberg (02-20-2019)
Callinectes (02-20-2019), Stretch (02-20-2019), Truth Detector (02-20-2019)
Did you already forget when John McCain picked the least qualified vice president ever, just because she's a woman?
This is pretty much what the vp position is for now. Obama needed support among old white men, so he picked Biden. Trump needed support among religious Christians, so he picked Pence. Welcome to American politics.
evince (02-20-2019)
Truth Detector (02-20-2019)
You can't forget something that didn't occur the way you claim.
All Obama needed to do was be black. Look at how that, alone, brought out record numbers of black voter, many of whom voted for the first time in their lives but could have voted numerous times before 2008. Look at how when a black wasn't the party's nominee, the black vote dropped back to levels it had been before 2008.
Looks like the Democrats need to boost that black vote again based on their reactions to Willie Brown's Nookie Kamala Harris running.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Nordberg (02-20-2019)
Earl (02-20-2019), Truth Detector (02-20-2019)
You seriously think that wasn't the only reason Palin got the position?
Yes, but his campaign was worried he'd lose because he wasn't doing well among older white men. So they did what the Republicans did, and just played "identity politics" with the vp position.All Obama needed to do was be black. Look at how that, alone, brought out record numbers of black voter, many of whom voted for the first time in their lives but could have voted numerous times before 2008. Look at how when a black wasn't the party's nominee, the black vote dropped back to levels it had been before 2008.
Of course. This is what Conservatives don't understand. All politics is "identity politics."
I didn't say that. Obama needed votes from white people to win too. Maybe Biden helped with that, maybe he didn't. The point is he was selected for the same reason McCain selected Palin.Thanks for admitting Obama's choice of a white VP meant nothing.
That's racism in it's basic form.
If you agree with being black as the only reason many went to vote, the part about Biden being white meaning nothing is part of it.
You keep saying McCain picked Palin because of her gender yet provide no proof of that claim. However, you admit Obama being black is the only reason many voted for him.
True that anyone can win an election.
But Palin’s dumb/smart quotient in political terms, can only be determined by looking at her record as governor and/or how her policies affected her state. Whether she was ‘dumb’ by some other metric really doesn’t matter much.
That’s why going by the what the talking heads were saying about her is the absolute last place to look.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Earl (02-20-2019)
You can call it racism. I just see it as humans being tribal, which is in our nature. This is why multiracialism doesn't work.
Obama being black got black people and some white guilt cucks to vote for him, but that wasn't enough to win the election. He still needed the old white man vote.If you agree with being black as the only reason many went to vote, the part about Biden being white meaning nothing is part of it.
Common sense is my evidence.You keep saying McCain picked Palin because of her gender yet provide no proof of that claim. However, you admit Obama being black is the only reason many voted for him.
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