Okay so I don't really know where to begin this or if posts like this are allowed, but obviously Bernie Sanders is a name that pops up frequently on /r/all and I don't know why. I was maybe 15-ish during all the craze with Obama(I'm 23), and maybe it's just me but he sounds like rehashed promises on a lot of things. I don't know anything about this guy or where he comes from, but a lot of the posts (pretty much all of them) are positive towards him. I don't know if this is just reddit bias or if he actually is worth trying to make a change for.

A few questions, if I might ask:

Why should I be voting for Bernie Sanders? I'm not even registered. A lot of people arent.

Why should I vote at all? It seems like he's too far behind for one more person to actually make a difference.

If he's so worth registering for, how would I go about that?

What policies does the competition have over him? I don't just want to know what he's good for, but what he can reasonably follow through on in one (even two) term(s), and what the competition has over him. This is mostly focused on the point of him currently battling against other Democrats (I think that's how it works, right?)

Are there not any Republic candidates worth looking at?

I'm not a politician. I don't expect this to blow up, but I really just seem interested after almost six months of nothing but him and Hillary Clinton on reddit.