Martin O'Malley campaigns in the long shadow of Bernie Sanders.

[elleng]

“I need to be in this race for more days and I need to be in more places,” O’Malley had said earlier. “I intend to do this the tried-and-true way of meeting as many people as I can who go to their caucuses in Iowa, by doing it one town at a time. It means doing the same thing in New Hampshire.” . .

O’Malley has unveiled a long list of progressive policy proposals, pledging to move the United States entirely to clean energy by 2050, reinstate barriers between commercial and investment banks, make Wall Street executives culpable for financial crimes, eradicate student debt at public universities and act on immigration reform.

Many of his ideas are more detailed than Sanders’ proposals, and also wonkier and less eye-catching: Sanders calls for a single-payer healthcare system, while O’Malley advocates for improving on Obamacare with a multi-part plan to reduce healthcare costs. On Thursday, he unveiled a detailed plan for reforming Wall Street.

“Governor O’Malley has laid out the most comprehensive plan on Wall Street of any 2016 candidate. It is bold, it is progressive, and it is specific. No one—to date—has laid out as detailed a plan for structural and accountability reforms as Governor O’Malley,” said campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith.

While making the rounds in the Concord bar at the end of the day, O’Malley, drank a Guinness and talked with voters about his prospects against Sanders and Clinton.

“Between the socialist and the same-old, same-old”— O’Malley widened his hands—“there’s a huge gap.” The challenge for O’Malley will be finding a way to fill it.

http://time.com/3951876/martin-omalley-bernie-sanders-primary/

[Kalidurga]

1. I don't think the gap is that big.

It's okay though he is a very smart man and I am sure he is up to the challenge of this campaign.

[Peacetrain]

2. So true...

"Many of his ideas are more detailed than Sanders’ proposals, and also wonkier and less eye-catching: Sanders calls for a single-payer healthcare system, while O’Malley advocates for improving on Obamacare with a multi-part plan to reduce healthcare costs. On Thursday, he unveiled a detailed plan for reforming Wall Street. "

[Raine1967]

5. This is what I like!

I swear — I keep saying I like Senator Sanders, but for me, O'Malley is the one who is providing details on how to get this progressive agenda done.

O'Malley has the blueprint. It's all right there.

[Andy823]

7. I totally agree

Trying to get a single payer system is a great idea, but it won't work as long as republicans control just one branch of congress, let alone if they keep the Senate. I have always said that Obamacare is the foundation to build on, and I agree with O'Malley that health care coast must go down. I have seen just how much healthcare costs are this year. I have seen my own bills come in from the insurance company. I have seen what the system charges, what the insurance company pays and what is left for me to pay. It's way to much and can be fixed, just like president Obama has said. Now that the Supreme Court has pretty much made this the law of the land, those changes can be implicated, when we get someone like O'Malley in the WH.

He has shown a plan for the issues that face this country, not just talking, but actual plans, and once Americans hear his ideas, things will change. The first debate is going to be his chance to show the country just how he would change things, and I think it's going to turn this race around.

[FSogol]

3. K & R. n/t

[Raine1967]

4. Bernie has a long shadow.

Shadows have a time frame. If I were Bernie supporter, I don't know if I would like to be described as a shadow.

either way, I really feel like the M'OM message will get out.

Suns rise and set, Shadows rise and rest.

[elleng]

6. Thanks, Raine; I needed that.