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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 jmorris on Wednesday November 25 2015, @05:16PM
Reality Check #1. The Time 'Person/Entity/Hashtag of the Year' is just a stunt to move magazines in an end of the year issue normally in a quiet time newswise. It is going to be picked based on that, the ability of the selection to move units.
Reality Check #2. Bernie Sanders is NOT going to be picked. He is a quirky 'colorful' gadfly who has afflicted politics in a minor way for a long time but had zero impact to date and has no plan to begin now. Slightly more important than Vermin Supreme or the 'Rent is too damned high' Guy but not by much. In ten years nobody who isn't a pure political junky will remember his name, including 90% of the people waving his name around on signs. Ms. Clinton needed a token challenger and Sanders was willing to play his role to get some face time to promote his pet issues a bit. Without him Hillary would be entirely out of the media cycle until the summer except for occasional mention of her crimes and past incompetence.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday November 25 2015, @08:19PM
I wish I though you were too cynical.
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