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I Turned Bernie's And Hillary's Most Used Phrases Into Beautiful Poems

by Alexandra Svokos
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Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have been talking quite a lot over the past 10 months.

The smarties over at FiveThirtyEight put together a list of the phrases the candidates used the most in the Democratic debates.

Some of those phrases are super vague, like Hillary's top phrase, "to go after."

Some are a little more specific, like Bernie's eighth most-used phrase, "the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs."

But when life gives you a bunch of absurd, context-less political phrases, you have to make lemonade. So, here are some poems I made completely out of Bernie's and Hillary's most used phrases, with lines alternating between the two candidates.

"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good State"

Let me just say this I took on the State of Vermont

And there A political revolution Spent a lot of time

"The Mountain Not Climbed"

We have to go To the top To do everything I can

I think that is What we need to do To figure out how

But at the end of the day Barriers that stand in the way All over this country

I think it's important In the history of the Comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship

"Because I Could Not Stop for Fossil Fuels"

I think we have got to Build on Income and wealth

And we need to Transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficient and sustainable energy To do more

Millions of people Want us to Not just a handful

"I Hear American Politicians Singing"

I want to make sure As I understand it That Senator Sanders Make public colleges and universities tuition-free

Secretary Clinton is How we're going to Agree with much of what the secretary and the governor have said On the Affordable Care Act

Citations: These Are The Phrases That Sanders And Clinton Repeat Most (FiveThirtyEight)