DU's Bernie problem.

[SaschaHM]

318. Say it again for the people in the back.

Whenever I see a comment like that in a thread like this, I'm just dumbfound as to "how" they think that is going to occur with certainty. More choices means "anti-Clinton Bernie votes" being spread out. More diverse candidates (including moderate/center-left white candidates) means the demographic problems of the primary get expanded since the WWC can rally around a Biden, Gillibrand, or a Warren. And that doesn't even get to the poll erosion that occurs when Clinton general-only voters, enthused by Trump and the loss, become primary voters that aren't going to flock to him.

That Biden has consistently polled over him (having lost the presidential primary twice) should be a sign that Sanders had he been younger would be well on his way of becoming a perennial Ron Paul-esque candidate that ultimately loses while maintaining a core group of supporters that doesn't expand. Heck, even the 18-25 year olds of 2020 will find a new candidate to rally around.

And that doesn't even get around to the problem of the 2016 Clinton primary voters that generally don't seem to be jumping on the "Our Revolution" bandwagon in the post-Trump era. Hillary had that issue in 2008, but her relationship w/ Obama and her service to his administration helped alleviate that in 2016. I don't see Hillary and Bernie holding hands and encouraging her supporters to support Bernie in 2020, especially when the kneejerk reaction of folks from a certain sphere is for her to go away forever.