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Originally Posted by Xurtio
I usually agree with Batlord, but we've never really had a candidate like Sanders before. I'm voting this cycle.
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Henry Wallace in '44, Claude Pepper in '48, Hubert Humphrey and Estes Kefauver in '52, Kefauver in '56, Wayne Morse in '60, Eugene McCarthy in '68. Since the modern primary system began (post McGovern-Fraser): I guess Fred Harris and Shirley Chisholm in '72, Frank Church, Jerry Brown, and Harris in '76, maybe Jesse Jackson in '84 and '88, I guess Tom Harkin in '92, Bill Bradley in 2000, Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich in '04, Kucinich in '08.
I mean, none of these are
exactly like Sanders, but they're all people who ran to the left or ran populist campaigns in the Democratic primary (with the exception of Wallace).
ETA: Obviously that should've been Wallace and Pepper in '48. Brain fart.
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