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Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by bjourne on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:08PM (#26654998)
Afaik, American parties are much more about winning elections than ideology. It is not certain that supporting Medicare for All would have increased Joe Biden's chances of winning. Especially since their strategy was to get Republican and right-leaning voters to switch parties. Also, Biden handily defeated Bernie Sanders in the primaries so it is not certain that more progressive policies would have benefited the Democrats in the general election.
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Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ... by cwkoss on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:38PM (#26667632)
Biden only led Sanders in the primary after 2/3 of the field dropped out and endorsed Biden.

You may be right, but we'll never know how Bernie would have done against Trump. Personally, I think he would have won by a much bigger margin.

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