Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-10975360-20131014124545/@comment-10975360-20131121180623

i disagree, Anderson was liberal on many issues, arguably - at least in economic terms - more liberal than Bill Clinton, and even moreso than carter, who was conservative on social issues.

i know, but if reagan got the nomination i doubt he would have won the election. If he had have won then he would not have got a second term - ted kennedy's time to shine.

Reagan won in 1984 not because of his ideas but despite of them, he was charismatic, popular and faced a former vice president - so many JFK similarities, but Reagan dodged his bullet.

he has been polling ahead of biden, just look at the polls - 270 to win, and even on wikipedia - he is ahead of biden but behind clinton.

i disagree, i tihnk if hillary announces she wont run - sometime in 2014 or 2015 - then a whole lot of other democrats will pour in, Warren, Schweitzer and O'Malley certainly, Kaine, Dean and Cuomo probably, and Klobuchar and Gillibrand too. Biden will lose his support base, and momentum. The thing with frontrunners is that they have everything to lose and nothing to gain, the slightest primary upset results in weeks of negative press coverage and a loss of momentum. Its what happened to clinton in '08 (she's too far ahead for it to be a major problem in 2016) and what would happen to Biden in 2016.