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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What's so terrible about saying "the system is rigged"? [View all]dionysus
(26,467 posts)23. That's a lot of straw. By that turn, i could say liberals aren't president of the college
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The work I saw with the Clinton campaign was about registering to vote NOT GOTV
csziggy
Dec 2016
#56
There are two problems-first Sanders had no chance of being the nominee and the DNC did not fix race
Gothmog
Dec 2016
#7
You misunderstand - Sanders's entire point was that both parties were doing the "rigging".
forjusticethunders
Dec 2016
#34
How? Sanders lost due to the fact that Jewish, African American and Latino voters rejected him
Gothmog
Dec 2016
#14
Super delegates cost him the primaries - totally changed how the primary progressed!
Joe941
Dec 2016
#52
You assume starting out with a 700 delegate lead has no bearing on the rest of the race. It changes
Joe941
Dec 2016
#57
Are you going to claim that our economic system isn't tilted towards the wealthy, "rigged", if you
dionysus
Dec 2016
#11
It's not as simple as "the wealthy have more money than the rest of us". Never has been.
Ken Burch
Dec 2016
#17
It hasn't. Sanders supporters have been just as outspoken about the bogusness of Trump's "victory"
Ken Burch
Dec 2016
#16
That's a lot of straw. By that turn, i could say liberals aren't president of the college
dionysus
Dec 2016
#23
What happened to our friend? Was the strain of this post more than they could bear?
dionysus
Dec 2016
#48
Actually, he made speaking out about racism a standard part of his stump speech
Ken Burch
Dec 2016
#41
Another strawman-there are very valid reasons why Sanders did not do well with AA and other votes
Gothmog
Dec 2016
#55
Because it's mostly a backlash against things like a Black President and Women and others gaining
JI7
Dec 2016
#49