Talk:Political positions of the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary candidates

A better title: Where the other candidates stand on Bernie Sanders's platform

@AHC300: It is odd to have a long list of specific bills on which one candidate's views (always the same candidate) are known but others' are not. That is WP:UNDUE weight on one candidate's views. -hugeTim ^(talk) 03:09, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

There remains some POV obvious in the selection of which issues to include. What criteria should we use? Are there precedents for a page like this on Wikipedia? -hugeTim ^(talk) 20:34, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

I don't think it's really over-emphasizing Sanders. It's just that Clinton and Sanders get the most media coverage, so their views are more widely known than those of the other candidates. -- Ypnypn (talk) 13:17, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Let me give some specific examples:

• Why is there a row for $15 minimum wage, and not a row for the $12 minimum wage (by 2020) policy actually recommended by experts on the minimum wage and poverty?( See: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/the-minimum-wage-how-much-is-too-much.html and http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2015/07/15-dollar-minimum-wage-harm-economy-holzer )
• Why is there a row for the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012"?
• Why is there a row for single-payer healthcare but not for other healthcare policy ideas? -hugeTim ^(talk) 16:53, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

• $ 15 dollars an hour is a significant issue for progressives and within the living wage mark. Again this is the Democratic party, not the GOP.
• NDAA contained a controversial provision allow for the US government to detain any US citizen without trail by due process for any reason what so ever forever.
• Maybe we could create one for Obamacare, but the push for single payer or a public option is high.Dawkinsfan44 (talk) 01:37, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Source on your living wage claim? The living wage differs by location for both Democrats and Republicans. The single adult living wage only reaches $15 in the most expensive cities: http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2015/living-wage-map/ And the opinion I'm linking to saying that $15 is too high a minimum wage to impose on the entire country is a prominent Democrat: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/the-minimum-wage-how-much-is-too-much.html Regardless, there is clearly a dispute among Democrats, and you explicitly want to impose one POV on the structure of this page.

Otherwise, I would support a specific item on the controversion detention provision, and a specific item on a public option, so I think we agree on those. -hugeTim ^(talk) 17:05, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

• Add tuition-free public college to the list of transparent Sanders POV pushing here. -hugeTim ^(talk) 16:42, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Add other position like Social position

I saiding were Social position in this list? I need checking on other democratic candidates. 2606:A000:85E7:4E00:92A:9CF3:6F07:7B37 (talk) 01:10, 22 October 2015 (UTC)