In which states would Bernie have done better or worse..

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82. Those you are describing when you say "Midwestern white evangelical hypocrites" are,

and always have been, solid R voters. Therefore, you are right that they never would have voted for Bernie. Those same people never voted for Obama either, but he still won those states without them.

Why? Because the Obama Coalition had other persuadable groups of people that (for whatever reason) Clinton failed to win over. Bernie had them too in the Primary with the exception of the more partisan Ds who went w/Clinton. However, those same partisan Ds would have needed little to no convincing to vote for Bernie in the GE had he been the D nominee...(Even if he was not their first choice). The harder ones to get, such as moderate and left leaning I's or Green Party type Progressives were already with Bernie and Obama.

IOW, had Bernie been the D nominee in the GE, he would have had the entirety of Obama's winning coalition.