just speaking for myself...i firmly believed bernie was a better candidate than clinton while they were competing.

but the primary results are what they are. clinton appealed more to just about every segment of voters but college kids and hicks.

bernie got beat by over 10 points. thats not a slim margin. thats blowout territory in any national election.

and i think something like 7 primaries bernie won were proportional ties. so he only won something like 16 convincing victories to like 34 for clinton or something like that.

it became kinda clear she was the better candidate to represent the dem party coalition in the general. i reached that conclusion *later on* with the benefit of hindsight/evidence.