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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: In which states would Bernie have done better or worse.. [View all]baldguy
(36,649 posts)78. It's not anti-Semitic to point out that RW assholes, supported by Nazis, just might be anti-Semitic.
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And pointing out that those same RW assholes, supported by racists, just might be racist themselves is not racist.
And to casually toss those accusations around - as you and some others here are doing - only helps those RW assholes & their allies.
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Here's the deal - you're always going to fail when you try to "prove" a falsehood.
baldguy
Dec 2016
#13
Those you are describing when you say "Midwestern white evangelical hypocrites" are,
PotatoChip
Dec 2016
#82
You think Midwestern white evangelical hypocrites would just gloss over Sanders being Jewish?
baldguy
Dec 2016
#61
I think some have a problem with Jewish people regardless of geographical location
NWCorona
Dec 2016
#63
It's not anti-Semitic to point out that RW assholes, supported by Nazis, just might be anti-Semitic.
baldguy
Dec 2016
#78
Sanders was a very weak general election candidate who would have been destroyed in the general
Gothmog
Dec 2016
#36
The fact that Clinton outperformed the Senate candidates in PA and WI suggests otherwise.
LonePirate
Dec 2016
#12
I doubt he'd have lost VA but it might've been closer. Our population is shifting and northern
JudyM
Dec 2016
#25
We will never know and as he won't be running again I think it's time to let it go
NWCorona
Dec 2016
#23
Better in some solidly red states but not enough to win. Worse overall elsewhere.
Garrett78
Dec 2016
#24
It might have helped a bit, but he still wouldn't have had the support of the base.
Garrett78
Dec 2016
#38
Which is actually an excellent argument to make for Sanders to have been the candidate.
guillaumeb
Dec 2016
#31
do you understand the absurdity of saying that the media hardly took him serious because
JCanete
Dec 2016
#59
God forbid we talk about what might need to be done to win the next election.
Goblinmonger
Dec 2016
#56
When a popular Dem is in the White House, you can't expect the Dem nominee to run on "change."
Garrett78
Dec 2016
#65
I think the Clinton campaign should have done more outreach to rural Democrats in swing states.
Garrett78
Dec 2016
#81
He'd probably have held every state HRC took, and added the Upper Midwest+Iowa and Ohio
Ken Burch
Dec 2016
#50
The issue with Bernie, as well as O'Malley, is that a very different Bernie Sanders or
StevieM
Dec 2016
#62
What it takes to win in the primaries is different than what it takes to win in the GE.
BigBoss26
Dec 2016
#66
Turnout of the base is definitely important. You won't get any argument from me there.
BigBoss26
Dec 2016
#70
Note sure, but I was grateful that Bernie never ran as a third party candidate...
Buckeye_Democrat
Dec 2016
#69