WI: Bernie Sanders 2000

[Thunderbird is the word]

What would the 2000 Democratic primaries have looked like if then congressman Sanders had decided to jump in (capitalizing on the anti-globalization movement and W2 protests) and run alongside Gore and Bradley?

[swky_0rn]

Gore would stil;l win.  the political climate  of 2000 is diffrent today and  sanders  was only a congressman.

[President Johnson]

He would have lost badly. If he were the nominee, Dubya would have crushed Bernie in the fall election.

[Figueira]

the political climate  of 200 is difrent today

Yeah, Talmudic law was just being created, and there were only 257 million people in the world.

[cwt]

From the title, I assumed Sanders would be playing Nader's role (running third party).


If he did only slightly better than Nader, he could have spoiled NM, WI, IA, OR and maybe MN. Then people wouldn't have cared about Florida so much.

[Former Senator Haslam2020]

Landslide Bush victory.

[P123]

If Sanders runs third, Bush def wins Vermont. Gore won Vermont 50-40-6, Sanders would get far more % in Vermont then Nader (over 15%) throwing the state definitively into Bushes column. He would cost Gore both Maine + Vermont

[RightBehind]

Times have changed since 2000. There's an uprising of fed up establishment politics, which clearly didn't seem to be the case back then. Plus there's also new means of communication and social media, so Bernie's platform goes farther today than it would've back then.

He would not have done well. Things that were non-issues or lesser issues are major problems in 2016.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

He'd just split votes with Bradley and act as a spoiler if he ran as a Democrat. He'd likely pull Kucinich levels of support.

[bagelman]

If Sanders runs third, Bush def wins Vermont. Gore won Vermont 50-40-6, Sanders would get far more % in Vermont then Nader (over 15%) throwing the state definitively into Bushes column. He would cost Gore both Maine + Vermont

Maybe something like this:


I realize this isn't OP's question but it's an interesting topic: Would Sanders do better or worse than Nader? If he does worse than a Gore presidency is possible.