The self-employed and 1099 contractors making more than say 45k are those the worst off in the current system— you make too much to qualify for the ACA subsidies and too little for premiums to be a marginal cost. 

The big issue is that due to a lot of legacy developments— almost all well-meaning and productive at the time— employer-based health insurance is going to be incredibly difficult to untangle. It was initially used in lieu of pay to incentivize employees to choose one employer over another (because of a federal pay…

This.

No, that's literally a part of Sanders M4A legislation. Banning private insurance in areas covered by M4A. 

41% isn't that great in the polls

That’s a good point, I didn’t consider that Warren has the Obama issue. To be fair to Sanders, if he didn’t have largely the same message as Warren the contrast wouldn’t have been as striking and off-putting-- I liked how it contrasted with Clinton's general approach of technocratic detachment in 2016 

No she's a Trump level con artist with a similar moral compass 

This literally Republicans being coo with Trump because he pressed all their hot spots and ignoring his lifetime as a con man. Williamson is arguably more malevolent pre Politics than Trump- sure Donnie ran the lynch mob Central Park 5 ads but Williamson told those suffering with AIDS to forgo medication in favor of…

The answer was definitely a low point in a performance that was otherwise easily the second best of the night after Warren’s.

Well let’s see they each expanded Mwdicaid and raised the minimum wage one legalixed Marijuana, the other has been one of the leading forces in campaign finance regulation, Hickenlooper somehow signed into law significant gun control legislation in a Mountain West state- Hickenlooper has definitely gone further on…

I mean for Bullock and Hickenlooper there is the whole “actually implementing more progressive policies than Bernie has in his entire career” thing

Eh Charlie Baker is the most popular statewide elected official in America as Republican in Massachusetts, he’s not great but he’s sure as hell not Trump.

Bernie’s problem is that he's basically shouting every single answer, he cimes off as a less detailed, less professional version of Warren- his best role might be her hype man/ warm up speaker

I mean his real short coming is thst he’s been in Congress for 30 or so years and failed to acheive any significant policy change, Biden may have compromises and bad votes but he also has the Brady Bill and the Violence Against Women Act.

Both VT and MA have Republican governors who'd appoint their replacements

It was definitely better than his two step duck of the issue on Guns

Look at the redevelopment along the Naito Parkway

The Deep South and Appalachia? 

Not sure how he'll do, but Bullock has a legitimately laudable record of achieving progressive policies in a red state- he increased the minimum wage; expanded Medicare and fought for substantive campaign finance reform all without sacrificing on social issues. 

Wait.....are you pretending Portland doesn’t have a large homeless population?