- Ironically, as Sanders rises in the polls and does better than expected, the alarms grow in volume and intensity. It verges on oxymoronic for Clinton and the party establishment to scorn as unelectable a candidate who is beating her at the ballot box. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/02/09/why-bernie-sanders-can-win-the-white-house/ 1290 comments politics