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TIME Magazine reports:
With eleven days left to go before TIME's 2015 Person of the Year poll[1] come to a close, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the upstart candidate for president, holds a wide lead over global notables among TIME readers even as he trails Hillary Clinton in voter polls and fights a long-shot battle for the Democratic nomination.
The self-described "democratic socialist" currently leads Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist, with 11% in the TIME reader poll compared with her 5%. Sanders also leads Pope Francis and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama and is far ahead of entertainers like Adele (2%) and Jennifer Lawrence (1.7%).
[...] Hillary Clinton has earned 1.3 % of the vote.
[...] Sanders is also beating Donald Trump in the reader poll.
[...] Voting on the reader's choice poll ends Dec. 4 at 11:59 p.m. and the winner will be announced Dec 7.
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While TIME says that Hillary's popularity in national voter polls is still higher than Bernie's, they fail to mention that Hillary's numbers are slipping while Bernie's numbers continue to climb.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 25 2015, @06:54AM
MDC, I hashtagged nothing! Did I? What, do we have auto-hashtagging, which is likely to cause at least as much trouble as auto-correct, and auto-I-knew-what-you-were-trying-to-do, Dave, so I cannot open the pod bay doors? Well, do we?
Point being, only one pole matters, and that is the Galactic Pole, the one we all and sundry circle around. It is the vector of our being, no matter what our solar system or individual planet decides to do. We are all aligned. Bernie is aligned. So in the only poll that matters, the truth will out, unless Diebold gets there first.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Thexalon on Wednesday November 25 2015, @12:11PM
Not true: There's a pole that's very important for that nice young lady who's just trying to earn money for college.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 25 2015, @01:35PM
Completely OT, but on-thread, a friend of mine made the masks for a burlesque production of Cinderella [out.com] and gave me and my wife a couple of comped tickets. There was a girl in it who did pole dancing while singing full-on opera. One of the most impressive athletic feats I've ever seen.
Made me look at pole dancing in a completely new light.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday November 27 2015, @12:38AM
damn near tore my arm right out of my shoulder socket.
How those scantily clad young things hang upside-down by their ankles is completely beyond me.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday November 26 2015, @02:49AM
"Yeah, that sounds familiar. I also suffer from Remote Neutral Monitoring."
"I'm not familiar with Remote Neutral Monitoring. Can you tell me more about it?"
"There's a radio implanted in my head that controls my mind."
"Why so?"
"I'm caught in the middle between two sides of a war. NO ONE IS ON MY SIDE!"
"I'm on your side. Is there anything I can do to help?"
"I could use some kind of helmet."
"Here, take one of these. Perphenazine won't remove the radio in your head but it will dampen its signal for a few hours."
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]