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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Post removed [View all]Triana
(22,666 posts)35. Almost a month AFTER Sanders (informally) announced his candidacy?
The 2016 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, the junior United States Senator and former Representative from Vermont, began with a formal announcement by Sanders on May 26, 2015, in Burlington, Vermont, which followed an informal announcement on April 30.[7][8] Sanders had been considered a potential candidate for President of the United States since at least September 2014 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders_presidential_campaign,_2016
It is clear that DNC or whoever wrote this memo didn't consider Sanders as being in the field - at all. It was a big mistake on their part since he did so well against the establishment machinery and it's media mouthpieces.
Was this some sort of conspiracy against Sanders or just establishment-bubble blinded ignorance? Who knows?
But it was stupid.
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Sanders had recently entered the race. The DNC thinking that HRC would be the nominee at that point
TwilightZone
Jun 2016
#11
Assuming she's going to be the nominee and "doing things" behind the scenes are two different things
TwilightZone
Jun 2016
#23
No, it doesn't. A) it's to the DNC, not from. B) on the date of the memo, she was the only candidate
TwilightZone
Jun 2016
#32
The day after actually...not devastating, just pointing out what we've known all along..
pantsonfire
Jun 2016
#17