Bernie Sanders Would Have Lost the Election in a Landslide

[AlexSFCA]

73. not sure

By that account, trump was by far more unelectable than Sanders. At the very least Sanders was qualified and experienced and without some decades of right wing propaganda baggage (like against Clinton). This election was about rust belt states only where Sanders had more chance to win than Clinton. I think it's reasonably accurate to guess that Sanders would have won Michigan and Wisconsin. Yes, he would have still lost Florida. As a Hillary support, of course, I would have voted for Sanders in the general election, especially against trump. But the opposite is not true. Many Sanders supporters did not vote and some voted for trump - in rust belt states.

More inportanty, Sanders would not have faced interference from Russia. That was aimed specifically against Clinton who herself tried to interfere in the Russian election in 2011, Putin hates her and considers her a state enemy. There would have been no FBI interference either.

And even if we still lost with Bernie, we may have been able to hold on to the senate cause of much larger turnout. I guess I am coming to the conclusion that, perharps, Hillary should have never run - her time was in 2008. She is much better when she works behind the scenes rather than campaigning. She is way too realist for a pupulist election year.