The issue is that voting affects everyone. Additionally people without said degrees succeed because of qualities that would also make them a good voter, but you disqualify them because they don't have a degree. I don't see how I - somebody who will end up with a PHD in physics when all is said and done, and two bachelor's (one in physics, the other in economics) am any more qualified in voting a politician who will decide a policy that affects - say an Uber driver - than said Uber driver, for example. All people have the right to vote on things which will affect them, if they are going to be forced to partake in said system. As the saying goes, "no taxation without representation." This was one of the cornerstones of the transition from elitist based monarchies to egalitarian (relatively) republics. Voting restrictions or mandates, impair this progress.

The phrase he uses is democratic socialist.  So that was a bit of inaccuracy on my part.  

In truth, a lot of other politicians would fit this label, but the word socialist still carries a lot of baggage.

I edited my post to say my idea couldn't be implemented in the US because of certain problems.

Everybody has the right to vote, just as everyone should have the opportunity to study! A degree isn't something that's given to you, you need to earn it first.

But in the US this would indeed lead to problems as black people (for example) earn less money than white people on average and thus have less opportunity to go to college (i.e. they would be unfairly underrepresented).

He actually is a democratic socialist. They believe in the incremental transition to socialism through democracy. Social Democracy is just one step to socialism for Bernie. Europe already took that step, while the U.S has been doing it more slowly because it has a warfare state to maintain which eats up its welfare state. But I am sure Sanders would be right with socialists if the U.S currently was as socially democratic as Europe.

Bernie Sanders is one of the better candidates, but he's just so old.

That's possible although I think a hypothetical President Sanders would have a hard time taking that step (same difference if he were an anarcho-communist or whatever really). Credit for being open about it at least, he wouldn't be ousted by the media for being a secret socialist or something.

I like that he is honest about his beliefs (even though I strongly disagree with his economic positions) and find his positions on the military and civil liberties to be decent, but not as strong as some other political persons. 

If you want an example of the far-left in the U.S I'd look at Noam Chomsky and his syndicalist perspetive. Syndicalism has always been more prevelant in the U.S among the left-wing (than say - Communism or state-socialism.) Mostly because it has been prominently anti-authoritarian (a key feature for any American political ideology: left or right.) 

The poll has a rather small sample size so the exact figures are meaningless; however, all of the polls have stated that Trump is the leading candidate.

Megyn Kelly got what she deserved and the polls continue to show that despite what Trump says, his numbers keep going up.

Eh... he's 4 years older than trump.  6 years older than Hilary.  So he's not that much older than the democratic and republican frontrunners ATM.  To me, the age issue will only be significant if he pulls a McCain and has a scary stupid running mate, which I don't see happening.

Gore said there is too much Bush on TV

Bush said there is too much Gore on TV