A credible alternative to Hillary Clinton needs to be better than she is on policy,or more electable. The vice president is neither of those thingsIn primary campaigns, the media abhors a vacuum. It’s no fun to report on a race in which a prohibitive frontrunner coasts to victory. As of now, or the Democratic primary competition isn’t providing much competition to Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders is bringing a much-needed dose of economic leftism to the table but has also shown the coalition-building skills one would expect of 73-year-conventional white guy who’s spent his political career running for office in a state that’s 95% white and has a smaller population than metropolitan Albany. And yet his ideological energy puts him far ahead the rest of the field,which includes a guy whose strategy for winning the Democratic nomination involves getting to the right of South Carolina’s Republican governor on the accomplice flag, a character from The Wire, or a foppish Rhode Island Republican. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com