Can Bernie beat trump and Clinton to the white house?

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you guys have as much chance of being the next us president as bernie.

He's got to beat Clinton first, so probably not given her lead.

Hillary leads in the national polls, but candidates are not picked nationally, they're picked state-by-state. So you cannot really judge a candidate's support amongst voters in states where they haven't really started campaigning yet; those people likely responding more on name recognition than anything else.

In the early primary states, Iowa and New Hampshire, Bernie is leading in one and neck-and-neck in the other. [Link] If he wins both of those, he will have momentum - and an influx of campaign money - going into the subsequent states.

Hillary is in a no-win situation: if she wins big in Iowa and New Hampshire, she was expected to; if she wins squeakers or loses, then Bernie "wins" by dint of showing her up. If she doesn't crush him hard and early, she's in real trouble, I think.

She's pretty unlikable and has "evolved" recently on too many issues. Also, the conservative opposition is hell bent on finding a smoking gun somewhere in her past and, if there's a slip up in her emails somewhere, she could be torpedoed easily at exactly the wrong time.

Bernie has been laser-consistent and out in front of many current trends (such as marriage equality and income inequality), but has some skeletons in his closet regarding gun regulations and, weirdly, race relations.

Both consistently poll as beating the republican field, so it's not about who is going to do better in the general election and more about who the democrats like more.

Personally, I'd go with Bernie for his consistency and political incorrectness (in a good way). I worry that Hillary will be too easily swayed by the establishment and corporate money once in office. Also, the Sanders-Trump debates would be epic.

#FeeltheBern

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Lead as in their respective odds currently quoted by UK bookmakers.

Gotcha. So nothing to do with the people who actually have a say in it.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.