48. "If I have $3 in my checking account" In response to In response to 15
but $100000000 in my savings, am I broke?
This "4 million" which keeps being referenced is such a misrepresentation.
1. The total vote count was almost 17 million for Clinton vs over 13 million for Sanders. Sanders, who started off as a 90+ point underdog and virtual unknown faced the least among of coverage and smallest number of debates to try to totally surpress his message. "4 million" votes is not a landslide 17 - 13. It is damn near a TIE. A virtual tie to a person with the Clinton brand and ALL the political associations in a primary you effectively control and you win in a defensive match up with no running game by a field goal? If you barely won your party how can you win the nation/electoral college?
2. The South overwhelming supported Clinton because she had ties to the South and her husbands presidency, had name recognition, AND was more conservative than her counterpart. HOWEVER, armed only with identity politics, the people who voted for her would also have voted for Bernie Sanders. The level of turn out that Bernie got would have electrified the general election AND pulled some Independents over to his ticket.
3. Independents were largely not allowed to participate in the Democratic Primary. Back to my back account analogy, if you are only going to count my checking and won't allow me to include my savings, then yeah, I guess I'm broke. But the MILLIONS of people who were not allowed to vote for an independent candidate (the majority of the country) didn't get to express that support or lack there of until the general.
Democrats cherry bombed their own electorate - where they were protested at their own convention - and then want to sit back and say they didn't bring this on themselves.
2 years later and their entire platform is diet-progressivism, PR spins on them losing seats to actual grassroots campaigns, and hoping that Trump's negatives are enough to yield them a positive. These mid-terms are going to ugly, but hopefully some seats get shaken up for the better.
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