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SMS DC's avatar

Team Amanda on the internal firing squad. I was a staunch Hillary supporter, but in retrospect if there were not thumbs on the scale we may have gotten a President Bernie and avoided Fat Donnie Two Dolls. The Bernie to Trump voters tell a tale.

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Tonee G's avatar

Bernie would win as many electoral votes as Mondale when he ran for president. I’m tired of Bernie fans saying he would have won against Trump. A very small faction in the Dem party may have been fans, but many independents and normal Republicans would have stayed home then vote for Bernie.

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Count Zero's avatar

Flip side of that, if the Republicans had super-Delegates to prevent Trump from running, that also might have prevented a disaster. I think Bernie was treated unfairly knowing what we know now, and that Hillary shouldn't have been blessed as the de facto candidate though I think at the time they thought he was too left of center to win. And that's largely due to the fear of years of Republican messaging that he was a Marxist, when he was actually a little s socialist.

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Bruce Lawrence's avatar

If the Democrats had nominated Bernie in 2016, Gary Johnson would have done much better than the 3% he got.

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