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Originally Posted by goofyballer
bobman, thanks for the good posts.
Bernie fans, wondering if Bernie would have won is a thought exercise. The character attacks on Clinton become political attacks on Bernie ("emails" become "socialism" and Bernie spends the whole campaign on his back foot trying to give an educated explanation of Democratic Socialism as a concept like he did in the primaries while Republicans are like "LOL MAGAAAAA"), maybe he fades them and wins, maybe he loses anyway and in that hypothetical world everyone's like "GOD YOU IDIOTS NOMINATED THIS ***** EXTREMIST WINGNUT INSTEAD OF THE CENTRIST THAT WOULD HAVE CLEANED THIS UP", much like it's easy to be like "GOD YOU IDIOTS NOMINATED CLINTON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU" in this world where she ran a campaign that was, depending on which measuring stick you want to use, a 3:1 to 6:1 favorite on election day.
We know now, given that Clinton lost, that nominating literally anyone else might have worked out better, but it also might have gotten us the same result.
None of this speaks to Dems who just did not bother to vote because they saw HC as such an establishment stooge.
I cant remember what state it was, but Trump had only put 100K on the number Romney achieved but HC had dropped the Dem vote by ~500K.
I think there has to be some takeaway from the fact that we all laughed at the the repubs for nominating a risky non main stream candidate, we all laughed at the death of the republican party, we all laughed at Trumps 5% election equity.
Now Trump is president, and the usual suspects seem to be all ready lining up to say hey next time the democrats had better not select an "unelectable" non mainstream candidate.