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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders would have beaten Trump. Period. [View all]bettyellen
(47,209 posts)98. Nope, he never faced actual opposition so this is fan fiction.
They have enough hatred of career politicians and intellectuals that they didn't need to paint him as anti American and extremely radical on abortion.
He was DOA. Most people don't love or hate candidates with the extreme emotion Berners did. Too many Berners were looking like lunatics toward the end there.
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Let's not mention the "rigged primary" that cost us a lot of votes because people walked away
MelissaB
Nov 2016
#3
And the polls turned out to be SO accurate this election cycle, didn't they? Give me a fuckin'
beaglelover
Nov 2016
#60
Hillary won the popular vote by enough to make the 4 point lead accurate.
Zen Democrat
Nov 2016
#155
No, by your own metric Trump could never have won. Other than that you have personal
bettyellen
Nov 2016
#102
We don't elect Presidents with national votes. At one point (just before Comey interfered).....
George II
Nov 2016
#184
When it's all said and done, she will have lost by about 40-50 votes. That's not being "crushed".
George II
Nov 2016
#203
I never argued the simply "ham sandwiches" are anti-Semitic. Context is everything!
George II
Nov 2016
#229
"Disapproval" wasn't on the ballot. If it was she would have won by a landslide.
George II
Nov 2016
#199
Nor can you win the nomination "appealing to just the people predisposed to support you".
George II
Nov 2016
#230
You are suggesting we should run and 80 year old socialist candidate against
Demsrule86
Nov 2016
#235
You say he was establishment, but his votes came from people fed up with the system
Bucky
Nov 2016
#178
Don't forget Planned Parenthood!! Anyone working for the common good for years is SHITE!?!?!
bettyellen
Nov 2016
#106
The only regular paychecks Bernie ever got for a sustained period of time were government ones.
MADem
Nov 2016
#115
Yup, and someone posted an article here with the reasons that Sanders was popular:
R B Garr
Nov 2016
#32
we had two very suboptimal candidates. Can you name the last time a Democrat over 60 won?
geek tragedy
Nov 2016
#10
Maybe we need to make it a federal crime for an FBI director to "opine" on open investigations,
MADem
Nov 2016
#129
or, there was a group of likely Trump voters that were much harder to poll than Clinton/Sanders
geek tragedy
Nov 2016
#17
In the spirit of opinion and lessons learned, Warren was our best choice
BeyondGeography
Nov 2016
#18
No kidding. At a minimum polls found 10% of the Sanders supporters would not vote for Hillary
still_one
Nov 2016
#109
Facts, yeah right. Feingold lost, republican incumbents won. She also won the popular vote
still_one
Nov 2016
#211
Yeah, I'd love to be told to get in line or sit down and shut up one more time.
MelissaB
Nov 2016
#163
This discussion board is called "2016 Postmortem". I'm sad if my arguments annoy you.
Bucky
Nov 2016
#188
Dream on. He couldn't even beat Hillary in the primaries (oh, I know, they were
beaglelover
Nov 2016
#59
He would have lost. If the polls were wrong about Hillary, then they were wrong about him.
grossproffit
Nov 2016
#84
if you think universal healthcare (single payer, expanded medicare for all, etc)
Grey Lemercier
Nov 2016
#133
bullshit. Clinton supporters would have supported Sanders if he was the nominee. The
still_one
Nov 2016
#92
Bernie was on the rise when his wings got plucked. He would have kept rural WI, MICH, PA blue.
zonkers
Nov 2016
#97
We "Democrats" chose our nominee, and we "Democrats" will deal with the outcome. Get over it.
Tarheel_Dem
Nov 2016
#99
He would have gotten creamed. Tragically, because I supported Now support him, but he would not
mahina
Nov 2016
#100
Sorry--that's utter nonsense. He couldn't beat Clinton, how could he beat Trump?
MADem
Nov 2016
#101
In order for Sanders to run as the DNC nominee, he did not win in the primaries, he would
Thinkingabout
Nov 2016
#119
But if more candidates had entered and run in the D primary things may have turned out
Ligyron
Nov 2016
#164
It could also be said if more would have entered there would be less votes for Sanders,
Thinkingabout
Nov 2016
#182
I love Bernie too, but if he really is Superman, he would have beaten Hillary in the primaries.
world wide wally
Nov 2016
#137
Gee, Feingold didn't win, nor did those Swing state Senate Democrats against the
still_one
Nov 2016
#200
Hillary supporters would have supported Sanders if he was the nominal. At least 10%, and by
still_one
Nov 2016
#180
Biden would've been amazing, agreed. I disagree that Sanders couldn't have won black voters over
Bucky
Nov 2016
#195
If sanders hadn't run and bad mouthed Hillary...she'd be our president today.
Auntie Bush
Nov 2016
#218