It's Panic Time for the Democratic establishment
No, Bernie Sanders likely isn't ahead in New Hampshire by 27 points, as yesterday's CNN/WMUR poll
showed (the other polling just doesn't back that up). But 12 days
before the Iowa caucuses and 20 days before the New Hampshire primary,
there's something happenin' out there. And now he's viewed as enough of a
legitimate threat that the Democratic establishment and the liberal
wonks are piling on him as if he were the frontrunner. It started Monday
after the debate, when liberal writers like Paul Krugman, Jonathan Chait, and Ezra Klein
either blasted Sanders' single-payer plan or argued he'd make a poor
president in these politically polarized times. Then yesterday, author Ta-Nehisi Coates
criticized Sanders for proposing utopian prescriptions on economic
matters (single-payer on health care, breaking up the big banks) but not
on race (reparations for slavery). And last night for the attempted
coup de grace, Democratic politicians ran to the New York Times
to tell the paper that Sanders would damage the party at the top of the
ticket because he's a democratic socialist. Some of the juiciest
quotes:
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon: "Here in the heartland, we like our politicians in the mainstream, and he is not — he's a socialist."
Rep.
Steve Cohen (D-TN): "It wouldn't be helpful [on downballot races]
outside Vermont, Massachusetts, Berkeley, Palo Alto and Ann Arbor."
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO): "The Republicans won't touch him because they can't wait to run an ad with a hammer and sickle."
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Source: NBC News
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