2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I wonder if the Black vote was what sealed the deal [View all]oasis
(49,401 posts)made up her mind a couple years ago.
As far as Bernie is concerned, she probably welcomed his entry at first. She had no way of knowing his message would catch fire. Hill would probably be okay with his opposition to Big Banks, Wall Street etc. but he seemed to be getting extra traction from his promises of free college, free Heath care, $15.00 min.wage. How was she to compete with someone offering pie in the sky? Her campaign had to believe Bernie had an unfair advantage with young voters, many who don't know enough about how government works.
That's when she decided to take off the gloves and make him give an accounting of how he would pay for all these goodies. Too late, the train had left the station and the Twitterverse was all abuzz about Bernie's "revolution" . It was easy for Bernie's campaign staff to enlist young folks to help disseminate the negative aspects the previous Clinton administration. Killer Mike and NinaTurner helped build Bernie's image with AAs, but Hillary hit back recently with Jim Clyburn and the CBC, to lock up her "must win" in Nevada.
Through the years, I have admired and respected Bernie Sanders. He performed a valuable service to the party by raising their awareness on the issue of economic inequality.
He's had a good run, and I wish him well.