Bernie Sanders Would Have Lost the Election in a Landslide

[Garrett78]

131. You asked where that quote had come from. I answered on eilen's behalf.

Eichenwald's a trustworthy reporter. The things Eichenwald mentioned would have been repeated over and over again during the general election campaign had Sanders been the nominee. There would have been photos or even video of Sanders getting arrested, video of Sanders referring to himself as a socialist, and other far more damning videos. Ads about his rape article, links to Castro, the nuclear waste deal, etc. It would have been devastating. It's not like Eichenwald is the only one aware of those things, as a few were mentioned on DU during the primary. The opposition research on Sanders isn't really a secret.

Sanders was failing to get the support of the Democratic Party base, and that was without any of the above being brought out into the light of day by the Clinton campaign (her campaign played nice, because she had the nomination pretty much in the bag by mid-March, or arguably after Super Tuesday). There were only whispers of those things on sites like DU.

Even if some of the opposition research isn't true (though the video would be undeniable), it wouldn't have mattered. It would have been broadcast far and wide. It would have been embellished to the extreme.