Fate
Goldman-Sachs might start getting nervous and jump to the GOP
Sure. They'll support someone who wants to return to the Gold Standard. (Cruz does) Because
that's what modern financial markets want.
Fate
Even so, in a general, can anyone imagine a 75 year-old (on election day) independent democratic socialist getting the nomination and looking good on the national debate stage? I can't. The DNC will go into full-on panic mode if it looks like Bernie is heading to the nomination. He makes George McGovern look electable
I've seen you write all kinds of things about "that'll never happen" here in the US . Then they do.
But as for "electable". In the first two states all of the candidates were rated positive or negative in a poll by NBC-Marist. Sanders wins. The only one with a positive rating. Trump loses.
The popularity — or unpopularity — contest
But among all registered voters in these two presidential battleground states, the NBC-Marist polls finds that almost all of the major presidential candidates are unpopular - and that's especially true for Clinton.
The favorable/unfavorable scores in Iowa among all registered voters:
Sanders +3 (30 percent/27 percent)
Rubio -1 (31 percent/32 percent)
Walker -1 (30 percent/31 percent)
Bush -12 (34 percent/46 percent)
Clinton -19 (37/56 percent)
Trump -28 (32 percent/60 percent)
Notably, Clinton's fav/unfav score in Iowa among all registered voters mirrors what a recent Quinnipiac poll of the state found .
The favorable/unfavorable scores in New Hampshire:
Sanders +12 (41 percent/29 percent)
Bush -5 (40 percent/45 percent)
Walker -6 (28 percent/34 percent)
Rubio -6 (28 percent/34 percent)
Clinton -20 (37 percent/57 percent)
Trump -40 (27 percent/67 percent)
This unfavorability rating for Trump is his ceiling.
The favorable rating for Sanders denotes his growth potential. As he presents his ideas, he seems to be gaining momentum As did Obama. So the grumpy old guy with the down to earth explanations of how things could be better for working people and the middle class is coming off as the most authentic.
And perhaps that's enough.
We'll see.
In a head to head debate with most of the republicans , he'll come across as authentic and what passes for policy in the republican debates will be revealed as paper thin rhetoric seldom grounded in reality.And he'll disarm some of the sensible republican policies simply by agreeing with them. (Thinking of e-verify and tighter border control) I think that is his most interesting quality.