But I mean, in the announced field of candidates, he very much is the clear frontrunner, both at the polls and in the fundraising figures. What metric complicates this view?

In a perfect world it would be great if Bernie, Biden, Harris, Beto, Warren, etc. could all get together and say “Look, winning this election is absolutely critical if we have any hope of undoing the damage Trump and the GOP have inflicted and we can’t piss this away fighting for the nomination.” And then they got…

I’ll vote for Bernie if he's the candidate. He's a universe better than the current Squatter in Chief 

I don’t get it at all. Is South Bend paradise on Earth or something? What about him suggests he should run the most powerful nation on Earth?

but booty boy likes the public option over medicare for all. even kamala pushes for medicare for all (publicly). if he can’t even do that, he’s not like bernie at all.

This is a great point

Obamacare was a liberal agenda. “Entitlement” reforms are a liberal agenda. Working with the other side, who are borderline fascists at this point, is the liberal agenda.

bUt bUtTiGiEg Is tHe “HoTTesT ThInG In PoliTiCs” RiGhT nOw!

Bernie & Warren are my choices.  I don’t care which one is on top of the ticket but feel Bernie is better equipped to smack down Trump in the eyes of ALL voters where Warren speaks so eloquently that she may lose some of the less educated.  That said, I voted for Clinton & will vote for whomever is the D because this…

In a perfect world it would be great if Bernie, Biden, Harris, Beto, Warren, etc. could all get together and say “Look, winning this election is absolutely critical if we have any hope of undoing the damage Trump and the GOP have inflicted and we can’t piss this away fighting for the nomination.” And then they got…

That was, more or less, what we had in 2016 with Hillary and establishment Dems.

I feel like if those top candidates just all agreed to endorse the final nominee (and to not play dirty during the primaries) it would accomplish what you want to see. If each of them said “so and so will also make a good president; this is why I think you should choose me though.” The last thing we need is a bunch of…

So wait, you want...the democratic candidates to lock the voters out of the primary process and decide the nomination themselves?

Yup. People need to stop whining about how many choices they have. 

Campaigning and pursuing actual Liberal agendas is extreme? Huh. I thought that was what we should expect from our candidates

I’ll just say the same thing I always say on this topic: we are lucky to have a bunch of candidates to choose from, and we are extra lucky so many people are engaged in this primary. If you don't want to pay attention to it, then don't, but I'm not interested in only having two real candidates to choose from. 

Yeah, we could call Bernie the front runner, but he really is not, and certainly not the “clear” front runner.

A well noted moron and two bit hustler won the Republican primary and presidency because he campaigned on BIG ideas like a racist wall and undoing everything “the black president” did. Which, unfortunately, were issues that Republicans cared a lot about

The limited early fundraising hauls announced by Democratic presidential hopefuls show that no clear front-runner has yet emerged

Bernie has the most money because he is the candidate with ideas and the voters are responding. No one else will inspire people like Bernie so any other candidate gives Trump a chance of winning.  People are sick of politicians who say what their big donors tell them.   If Democrats put someone like Biden, Beto, or…