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Originally Posted by PunkRockHec
So in the pie chart of this argument are you saying this is like 20% true...2%...what's the actual ranking here cause I got DNC/Obama/Corp Media horsetrade deal 1st....everything else a clear distant 2nd.
Who knows. It's all just best guess. Where you weight "Biden won because of name recognition and being a moderate" vs. "Biden won because of a conspiracy" likely correlates really heavily with how strongly you supported Bernie at the start of the primaries.
We know from years of study that name recognition is basically the most important factor in any election, but it's not like Bernie was some unknown upstart. It seems like the most likely narrative was that Bernie, the field's sole progressive, started out strong because his oppoents were a bunch of (varying degrees of) moderates. Once the field thined, support coalesced behind the most well known candidate, and there was considerably more support of the moderate option than the progressive.
Alternatively, everything was coming up Bernie, then the DNC, in conjunction with the Clintons and the reverse vampires, used the media to convince the people that Bernie couldn't win (despite having already won 3 of 3 primaries to that point) and that his policies weren't popular (despite being widely popular when polled).
The world may never know.