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In reply to the discussion: How the extreme left gave us Nixon, Bush and now Trump [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)All I'm guilty of is being a little to the left of your comfort zone.
I don't lie. I don't undermine. I don't advocate the party doing anything that would harm its chances. I never said anything personally critical about our nominee OR refought the fall campaign. Not once.
What this really comes down to is that I didn't support our eventual nominee from the moment she declared her candidacy and didn't accept that the other major candidate in primaries should not have run at all.
Nothing would have been better or even different if there'd been no contest in the primaries. We wouldn't have taken any additional votes anywhere in the fall if the nominee had been acclaimed at the start or if our policy offer had been blander and further to the right.
The popular vote share our nominee took in 2016 was almost identical to what the national polls showed her receiving in 2015. Do you honestly think that, if only the primaries had been a meaningless formality, what Comey and the Russians did wouldn't have made any difference?
If so...why?