Lots of traditionally alienated and disengaged people turned out for Sanders in the primaries

[Dustlawyer]

46. If there had been a fair Primary he might have prevailed.

The DNC and the Hillary campaign did cheat, it is a fact. Out of all of the money Hillary raised for the DNC to supposedly help the down ballot races, her campaign got over 98% of that money. This hurt the down ballot races as well since they did not get the money.

Not all of the fault lies with the Clinton camp though. The media was against Bernie because they knew his plan was to break up their oligarchy (6 companies = 95% of all media). they joined the Clinton surrogates in belittling Bernie when they mentioned him at all (see Chris Mathews anytime Bernie's name was mentioned).

I am still not saying he would have beat Hillary straight up, but I think it more likely than not. Hillary is an Establishment politician in an anti-establishment election year. This is a big reason we will now have a President Trump. The Bernie vs. Hillary Primary is almost exactly like the Hillary vs. Trump race. Hillary had more air time and the media legitimizing her while delegitimizing Bernie. Trump had the media in his corner giving him more air time and mentioning Hillary's past scandals and of course, the emails. The common theme was that the media played the decisive role in giving us the orange idiot for Prez!