2016 Postmortem

BainsBane

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40. That's your opinion

Thu Nov 17, 2016, 12:05 AM

Nov 2016

and you have no evidence to support it. Moreover, 3.8 million more voters voted for Clinton in the primary than Sanders. He was unable to win the Democratic base. The basic fact is that if someone can't win a primary, they obviously can't win a general election. He couldn't win a majority of Democrats in all but a couple of states, and as much as you think our votes unimportant, we still get to exercise them how we want. No one wins election as a Democrat without a majority of women and people of color. Bernie couldn't manage that--with good reason.

Eichenwald already addressed your Bernie would have won fantasy. http://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044
The best you can say is he might have won. To claim prescience for an alternative reality is absurd.

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