Originally Posted by
SueAxe
the counter is that one of the problems with this narrative was that Sanders never really got into a bruising, dig-up-the-dirt fight with Clinton because she was trying not to alienate his supporters for the actual election and so a number of his vulnerabilities were not unmasked. There was the college investment scandal with his wife, his political activism when he was young that, rightly or wrongly, made him vulnerable to attacks of unpatriotic communism, as well as his issues with women. By that I do not mean that he had mistresses in the closet but the campaign treated the female volunteers pretty poorly. Then, of course, we don't know what campaign slogan the Trump campaign would have come up with and how that would have played. He has been pretty ingenuous (or diabolical) wit those slogans: Little Marco, Lyin' Ted, Low Energy Jeb, Crooked Hillary (with the anti-Semitic graphic of the Jewish star on the cash), and of course Pocahontas. But at the end of the day, Hillary barely lost the popular vote in a few swing states and took the nationwide popular vote by 3 million. Also, at this point, the issue is what the Dems do going forward and I do believe that both Bernie and Liz Warren are now past their expiration date. The Democratic primaries will be absolutely fascinating.
Well said, Sue! There was also the period of time when Bernie drew unemployment compensation...
Sage Grouse
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