tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post6282483988082311605..comments2024-03-28T18:11:29.865-04:00Comments on UNDERNEWS: Morning Line: Clinton, Sanders tiedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-75454215189854606762016-04-23T23:09:28.204-04:002016-04-23T23:09:28.204-04:00John is absolutely right about the meaninglessness...John is absolutely right about the meaninglessness of current polls of hypothetical head-to-head horse races. Polls are nothing more than a snapshot of a given moment in time. But campaigns are by definition intensely dialectical encounters, with each side attempting to gain the advantage. The public knows almost nothing about Sanders, while people have been bashing away at Clinton's alleged weaknesses for decades. There is very little new we are likely to learn about Clinton if she wins the nomination. But Sanders is a blank slate, which the corporate super pacs are prepared to spend hundreds of millions of dollars filling in our ignorance with what will undoubtedly be a tsunami of vileness. There is every reason to think that Sanders head-to-head polling numbers are very soft, with lots of room for downside movement.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02698265078206934303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-242698705054354002016-04-19T15:19:17.627-04:002016-04-19T15:19:17.627-04:00Current polls mean nothing. Sanders has had no Rep...Current polls mean nothing. Sanders has had no Republican opposition to this point, meaning the political right has yet to attack him. Clinton on the other hand has been under attack by the right for 25 years. So where are Sanders' polls going to be at after two months of a concerted campaign against his proposals to raise taxes, increase entitlements and replace our current health care system? Worse, where will his numbers be when the right starts spending hundreds of millions to portray him as a job killer, as anti-capitalist, as somebody who wants to change the United States into the economic disaster known as socialist Europe? And you seriously think Sanders' poll numbers will stand up?<br />JohnHeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07088356545481654817noreply@blogger.com