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[@Vilageidiotx] Well I think people like Sanders, is because how likable he is. And yeah...politics completely aside. He doesn't come off as a raging asshole like Trump or Clinton does. (Though that's the same reason Bush and Obama got elected, because Kerry/Mitt came off as raging assholes.) Both came off as likable individuals. But does anyone really LIKE Obama or Bush anymore? I don't think so...(don't lie people. :I) 

But do I think he'd magically give people like Ron Paul a chance from getting elected. Hell no. Media on both sides is way too corrupt to ever let that happen. Maybe it's just the pessimist in me, but the next four years, no matter who gets elected. Will mean next to nothing for most of the population. The other side is going to fight the president the whole time, even if they are proactive in trying to something instead of going on vacations every 2 minutes. And literally nothing will be accomplished, the two party divide thing is so extreme, real issues don't even matter anymore. That's why you see people liking an idea coming from their party but hating it when the exact same idea comes from the other side.
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I actually like Obama, and I didn't vote for the guy. I disagree with him strongly on plenty of things, but the way he has handled himself is respectable in my opinion. I suppose I don't believe somebody has to be my ideal candidate for me to like them. And also, having grown up politically in the Bush years, it isn't going to take much to impress me anyway.

And no, it won't magically give them a perfectly equal shot, but it will give them the resources to make a real effort. The internet has helped a lot in evening the playing ground for people like Sanders or Paul, and their popularity on the internet does seem to show that their messages resonate if they can be heard. The media is corrupt only in the sense that they speak the duel language of money and popularity, and if you took the power of a Clinton or a Trump to dominate through their checkbooks, I think good candidates would get the ability to get their name out their on their own terms, and that from there they'd be able to make up the difference through their policies and personalities.