2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Bernie Sanders Lost [View all]LenaBaby61
(6,991 posts)Hillary could have been Presidents FDR, John Kennedy and Barack Obama rolled into one and she'd have still lost given the fact that there was so much hatred, racism, sexism, low-info voters voting for tRump and his racist rants/lies, hatred of a black Pres. for 8 years, voter suppression/voter disenfranchisement and what in MY estimation was election "shenanigans" pulled off by the Russians.
No, there was definitely more to Hillary losing than her being a "terrible" campaigner. She must not have been that terrible, because she got almost 3 million more popular votes than that racist POS tRump, for whatever it's worth.
I hear constantly that Bernie could have beaten tRump easily and that he had almost zero negative. Bernie was going to be savaged if he'd have been the Dem nominee by that fat, woman-abusing, Nazi Bannon who was not only going to continually throw out the I'm a Socialist/He's a commie/Castro-lover crap at him, the 25 year DC insider garbage, but I read that the centerpiece of his bile against Bernie was going to consist of crafting him into a pedophile (Per his no vote against Amber Alert) and a rapist (Per Bernie's own thought's about women and their sexuality per his 1972 essay) 24/7 along with tRump who loves projecting his Samsonite onto others, and we KNOW that he controlled the media to the tune of $2 Billion dollars worth of FREE air time, and if that wasn't bad enough, Bannon was going to subtly and not so subtly go after Bernie being Jewish (We know anti-Semitism is still very much alive and well). On top of that, the liberal media that doesn't exist said that it wasn't their job to correct all of tRump's lies/vulgarity which were spewed by him 70% of the time. Not a lot of people knew that much about Bernie, and I'm sure the low-info and racist voters would have eaten that mess up about Bernie. Pretty sure Bernie's negatives would have gone up, especially with the "Throw the crap against the wall and let's see what sticks" campaign of Bannon against him.
IMHO, NO Dem would have won the presidency in this election climate.