"We didn’t know where Hillary’s votes were coming from bc they didn’t feel it was safe"
Joanne Castle Miller had a great tweet about HRC voters not feeling safe in publicly supporting Hillary because of being harassed by haters (I urge everyone to read it):
https://twitter.com/jocastlemiller/status/740575041750867968
But, this Reddit thread by HRC supporters discussing that piece is a fantastic -- and sometimes sad -- read:
https://www.reddit.com/r/hillaryclinton/comments/4n6ciw/we_didnt_know_where_hillarys_votes_were_coming/
One comment that I loved:
I'm beginning to think that, instead of being worried about having to hide being a Clintonista, I could enjoy it by imagining myself as a subversive, slinking around looking innocent while awaiting the opportunity to cast a dastardly vote again!
Masquerading as a middle-class, middle-aged woman is the best cover, isn't it? because I have become invisible.
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quiet about it in public. 
I knew California would go for Hillary; that she'd win this State and the majority of delegates. I didn't think it was going to be 13%, though. I was thinking more along the lines between 7-10%, which, considering that NPPs could vote in the Democratic Party primary, was pretty generous! lol
I'm sorry to hear and read how Hillary supporters were driven to be quiet, but a true civilized and democratic society doesn't stage loud and violent protests. We exercise our passion through the ballot box (or mail), through phone-banking, through talking with our groups, through correcting the record where we could while withstanding the unjust angry. But we did it!
Not listening to our voices, and moving quickly and relentlessly to squash what we thought and had to say! We had to go underground and then we surprised everyone because we existed even though had to be quiet and silent about it!
I just enlarged this so I could actually read it.. interesting to me. I was not expecting 13%!
Joanna Castle Miller @jocastlemiller
We didn’t know where Hillary’s votes were coming from bc they didn’t feel it was safe to tell us in the first place.
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June 8, 2016 at 3:58 pm
I am not at all surprised by this. The media (NBC/MSNBC) tried to push the meme that the CA primary was neck and neck referring to their polling. But that same polling showed that Hillary was ahead 58-41 in early voting.
oops….they never mentioned that .!
June 8, 2016 at 4:41 pm
This is very important information, MS. The intimidation and the threats kept women out of the public eye, but it did not keep them from doing an outstanding job of voter outreach and GOTV. They worked under the radar without the theatrics and they WON, big. Seems emblematic of the way that women often go about doing the hard work of getting a job done–quietly, efficiently, effectively–while the men do the bragging. Now that HRC is the nominee more men will join the campaign because they want to be part of a success story.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/06/08/its-go-time/
ProudProgressiveNow~
I'm so grateful for every woman and man who held fast to their views despite the constant negativity, verbal abuse and intimidation. It's so encouraging to know that our numbers are greater than we were led to believe.
Women in California so much.. the ones behind the scenes quietly GOTV and Voter Outreach..
Everyone who voted for Hillary across the nation.. her largest voting block is actually African American Women.. and now Latinos in California!
She won Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, & California... see a pattern here? 
So encouraging! 
I like that pattern...
Yet we persevered! So proud of all of us!
Am sad to hear what you went through! Know that many were with you!! 
That's infuriating. 
It's also puzzling to me that someone would think that physical threats are an effective way of getting someone to change their views - it may publicly silence someone, but it won't change their mind when they cast a vote anonymously.
Incidentally, I think that's why they need to stop doing caucuses - there's nothing democratic about being bullied into voting for someone.
People feel entitled to trespass women's boundaries and Hillary's so any supporter of her, male or female, is subjected to that abuse by extension. Even in a state which is voting for Hillary, most here do not advertise it for fear of vandalism by the Trump and Sander's supporters. That is the reason there are so few signs and bumper stickers, etc.
I was at a non political meeting where everyone attending happened to be a Democrat. The Primary came up and one person, with fist raised boldly shouted, "Go Bernie! Never Hillary!" and was met with polite silence, shuffling papers and averted eyes. There were some smiles but the response spoke volumes: everyone in the room was for Hillary but they were not going get into it with an overbearing supporter who assumed everyone hates Hillary and that it was ok to do so. The support for Hillary is very deep and very wide just as the election results are showing. Women and minorities have to protect their voting franchise. There is power in the vote!
...to hide out. This is totally sad.
We are winning -- but the Sanders Cult has taken a lot of the joy out of it. And they're proud of it.
Fortunately, Sanders himself is a long-time politician who is right now dickering with other politicians over what he can get on behalf of the movement he started. If his more fevered followers can grow up a bit and see this as reality and not a betrayal (I swear some of them think he should "bern" himself on the Capitol steps shouting "Nevah surrendah!"
we might be able to make some progress -- even Progressive progress.
