2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It kills me to come to a gathering place for democrats [View all]Gothmog
(154,549 posts)Look at the absent of any vetting of Sanders. Sanders was a very weak general election candidate who had zero chance of being the nominee. The Clinton campaign was never worried about Sanders and so treated him with kid gloves. The press ignored Sanders because they knew that he had no chance of being the nominee. The GOP ran ads to help Sanders in the primary because he was such a weak candidate. http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1266681
In the real world, Sanders was allowed to coast and was not vetted. If Clinton had gone after Sanders it would have been easy to destroy him. Again, there is a ton of good oppo on Sanders. The Trump campaign oppo book was two feet thick with great videos of Sanders talking about communism and related topics that would have been used to destroy him with mainstream voters.