@ oskar and jack...

Quote Originally Posted by oskar
According to the polls he beats Trump handily head to head...
First of all, polls are heavily politicised and flawed, as proven by Trump winning the election, and Brexit. I really do not care what polls claim, it's a complete irrelevance.

For me, the problem Bernie faces is that he is USA's Jeremy Corbyn, and USA is traditionally more anti-communism that then UK. Corbyn got destroyed at the last election, because the British people did not trust his economics. I can only imagine that Bernie will have even more difficulties convincing the US public that his economics can work. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe there is increased appetite within USA for hardcore socialist policies, to the point Bernie has a chance of success. I would be very surprised though.