The Beginning of Bernie’s End

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   The Beginning of Bernie’s End
By Michael Brendan Dougherty

September 26, 2019 1:14 PM

If the Vermont senator’s recent polling slide is a sign of things to come, it’s worth pausing to consider the profound effect he’s had on his party.

Elizabeth Warren is rising in the polls. In a recent Quinnipiac survey, she even topped Joe Biden. In the past month, she has held steady at 23 percent in an average of the polls that qualify a candidate for the debate stage, reflecting a five-point climb after the last debate, and putting her just a few ticks behind Biden.

Parallel with Warren’s rise is another phenomenon: Bernie Sanders is sinking, slowly.

For much of the race so far, there has been a debate about whether Warren or Sanders would begin consolidating support among voters in the social-democratic “lane” that stood the best chance of producing a viable rival to Biden. We may now be seeing the first signs of an answer to that question. As Biden has come down a little of late, Sanders has not reaped the benefits. He has begun to slide even in polls of New Hampshire, where the recognition he earned in 2016 and his prominence as a senator from neighboring Vermont should be a boon to his chances.

That Sanders is tumbling this early is a very distressing sign for his campaign. But if this is the beginning of the end for him, it’s not too early to note that he has had a profound effect on our politics.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/the-beginning-of-bernies-end/

[Snarknado]

Like Biden, Sanders has nowhere to go but down. He has a rock solid core of supporters who will never desert him but no visible path to achieving wider appeal. Warren has taken over almost all the space between Sanders and Biden and is squeezing them both out of the picture.

[Cyber Liberty]

One need not be a Political Scientist, or even use an Abacus, to calculate Warren's effect on Sanders' poll numbers.  They are clones, so every new vote she gets is harvested directly from Sanders.  Feel the Bern, Bernie.

[Fishrrman]

From the article:
"If the Vermont senator’s recent polling slide is a sign of things to come, it’s worth pausing to consider the profound effect he’s had on his party."

It's not "his" party.
Sanders is a socialist (by party declaration) but a communist at heart.

He's been riding a borrowed horse from the democrat-communist corral.

But I'll reckon he's nearing his trail's end -- on the dust heap, I hope.