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    Bernie Sanders Wins Readers’ Poll for TIME Person of the Year

    Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has won the online readers’ poll for TIME Person of the Year, topping some of the world’s best-known politicians, activists and cultural figures as the most influential person of 2015 among those who voted.

    The Vermont Senator won with a little more than 10% of the vote when the poll closed Sunday at midnight. That’s well ahead of Pakistani girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai, who was in second place at 5.2%, and Pope Francis, TIME’s 2013 Person of the Year, who finished third with 3.7%.

    Sanders also placed far ahead President Obama (3.5%) and ahead other 2016 candidates, including Republican Donald Trump (1.8%) and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton (1.4%).

    See the full results of the poll here

    Sanders has helped define the presidential race, calling for big-ticket progressive items from single-payer healthcare to tuition-free public universities. He has mobilized the Democratic Party’s liberal base and inspired massive campaign rallies across the country.

    But he remains a distant second for the Democratic nomination in 2016, lagging more than 20% behind Clinton in national polls and overwhelmingly behind in support among Democratic members of Congress and party leaders.

    Sanders has said his goal is a political revolution that will reenergize the electorate and push big money out of politics. “A lot of people have given up on the political process, and I want to get them involved in it,” Sanders told TIME in a September cover story. “In this fight we are going to take on the greed of the billionaire class. And they are very, very powerful, and they’re going to fight back furiously. The only way to succeed is when millions of people stand up and decide to engage.”
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    If he is named person of the year it should be a good bump for him in the polls.

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    Yet one more very good reason to boycott the corrupt 'Time' rag.

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    I can't remember if he won it but didn't Ron Paul do extremely well in the Time Person of the Year poll too? (note: the poll winner is rarely the person actually given the award). I see he was #16 (behind Putin, Ben Bernanke, Angela Merkel, and actor Benedict Cumberbatch) in the 2012 poll. http://content.time.com/time/special...107959,00.html

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    LOL. Well at least Donald Trump didn't win.
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    So. Ron Paul was like 3rd in the fan voting for at least 4 years and never made the list.
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    Time tries to pick their "Man of the Year" based on their impact on the world- for good or for bad. Not on their popularity.

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    But where's George Soros?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Time tries to pick their "Man of the Year" based on their impact on the world- for good or for bad. Not on their popularity.
    In that case, Sanders shouldn't win.
    Stop believing stupid things

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tywysog Cymru View Post
    In that case, Sanders shouldn't win.
    If Sanders is elected, he'll probably win next time around, because the amount of destruction his insane ideas will reap upon this country will be astronomical.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hells_unicorn View Post
    If Sanders is elected, he'll probably win next time around, because the amount of destruction his insane ideas will reap upon this country will be astronomical.
    He's leading in the New Hampshire polls, so it's not out of the picture for him to win the nomination and the election.
    Stop believing stupid things

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tywysog Cymru View Post
    He's leading in the New Hampshire polls, so it's not out of the picture for him to win the nomination and the election.
    It's possible Sanders wins NH. It's impossible for him to be the nominee.

    But what Sanders has accomplished so far is indeed interesting. I don't see a problem with him being man of the year. I don't agree with Sanders much, but at least he is honest.

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    Angela Merkel named Time's Person of the Year
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