2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhat will Sanders supporters do if and when Hillary wins the nomination?
Hillary supporters will support the Dem nominee no matter who it is. How about the Sanders folks? Will they vote for Hillary who, YES, is damn well PROGRESSIVE too (even if not a purist), or will they bitch like hell and make excuses and stay home "in protest" or out of some "purity principle" thus helping the vile rotten RePukelican? Or will they abandon their "progressiveness" entirely and actually go vote for the rotten RePUKE?
If Hillary is the nominee, Sanders supporters damn well get a PROGRESSIVE and should be HIGHLY motivated to defeat the slumlord RePUKE, and anyone who equates Hillary Clinton who is HATED by the right wing with a RePUKE is living in an alternative universe.
So, what will the Sanders people do if he's not the nominee?
TCJ70
(4,387 posts)...and vote for her. I'll probably sigh at the missed opportunity and non-change as well.
Oh, and she's only Progressive by her own definition...but so is everyone since it has no hard definition.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)kath
(10,565 posts)Smh
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Please stop the nonsense. She is progressive and if I had time to write a book I prove it a thousand times over. But there have been PLENTY of posts outlining all the evidence. Look it up.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)her supporters start using it.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)who they feel is sexist and racist. They have every right to find some one that they do feel they can support.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)although I'm hearing now that young women just follow Bernie to be around Boys.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)But that will happen regardless of who wins.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Lol.
Renew Deal
(81,883 posts)Iggy Knorr
(247 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)PUMA ring a bell?
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)please answer the question.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)except Hillary. I just can't vote for her. Luckily I live in CT, so it won't really matter. The DEM nominee will win my state with or without my vote.
If Hillary wins the presidency, fine. I support democracy, so if that's who is elected, I'm cool with it. But I just can't vote for her.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Yes, I will whine and bitch and cry. Then I will vote for Clinton. Would I consider voting for a Republican? Sure. Teddy Roosevelt. Robert LaFollette. Tom McCall (Oregon governor). Maybe a couple others. Nobody still alive, of course.
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)thereismore
(13,326 posts)start. It makes you into a phony. It's a phony premise and your question is nothing but flame bait.
BTW I will support her.
renate
(13,776 posts)And I'd be happy to do so--just a little less happy than if I were voting for Bernie.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)That's what you wanted to hear, right?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Still zero chance she will not be the nominee.
SheenaR
(2,052 posts)Sanders has 7 to 2 odds to win the nomination (3.5 to 1). Seems like he has a chance.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Others will lay low for awhile...maybe run around deleting the nastiest of their posts.
Most will get onboard, especially when Sanders gives a full-throated endorsement. They'll feel even better when he's named to her cabinet.
Some may stay home. A few might cut off their noses to spite their faces and pull the lever for the Republican-but they'll be few and far between I think.
Some will vote for Jill Stein--as if that makes a difference, or one of the quirky oddball candidates that turn up on many state ballots (Deez Nutz, e.g. or Vermin Supreme).
Then, after a while, not too long after the inauguration, they'll start criticizing every decision she makes as POTUS, because DU is NEVER united, and we are often not decent, when we have a Democratic president. It's a very weird thing.
That's assuming the GOP doesn't steal it. Let's hope not!
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)ejbr
(5,856 posts)reading about you mentioning Deez Nuts.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Sometimes full of himself...!! Always looking to bust a move!
Ok, ok...I'll stop....I'm no Pinboy on that pun stuff~~~!!!!!
Good ones!
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Thank you for posting your analysis, MADem. I believe it'll go exactly as you outlined.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)He is a very good politician, and I mean that as a compliment.
Here's hoping it won't be necessary!
(Yeah, I did a Bernie bounce. So sue me.... ;-> )
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
litlbilly
(2,227 posts)NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)eom
Hiraeth
(4,805 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)ejbr
(5,856 posts)I don't have to vote for her.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)I guess I wasn't too far off here after all.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280111313
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Happy you can speak for all Hillary supporters.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)"how to make friends and influence people" ?
I'm guessing NOPE!
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)haven't seen one of these in a while. was afraid they were disappearing.....
artislife
(9,497 posts)Thanks for playing.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)edgineered
(2,101 posts)I will write her name in, but for a position other than POTUS. It would be both a vote for the Democratic candidate and in compliance with the TOS here.
Yes, I will vote for the Democratic candidate.
Rocky the Leprechaun
(222 posts)That is all I have to say about this topic.
bowens43
(16,064 posts)for the first since 1976 I will not be casting a vote for president. I will not be responsible for putting her in power
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)PonyUp
(1,680 posts)jalan48
(13,901 posts)wyldwolf
(43,870 posts)... then balk when asked for proof. 'The proof is she's the nominee. She couldn't have done that without cheating because all my friend voted for Bernie!!!"
You get the picture.
LuvLoogie
(7,054 posts)Hillary's coded covenant upon her ascension.
MuseRider
(34,135 posts)Poor Hillary supporters don't get to know how we vote. It is none of your business.
Autumn Colors
(2,379 posts)Yes, this.
honeylady
(157 posts)wins, then I'll vote for Hillary, of course. I can't imagine any self-respecting democrat staying home and letting the Republican win. And what about you Hillary supporters, what if Bernie wins, will you support him?
mythology
(9,527 posts)If Clinton wins, it will be her job (and to an extent Sanders' job as well) to bridge the gap between the two camps. The same will be true if Sanders win. Nobody has a right to anybody else's vote. If the nominee can't find a way to maintain the Obama or Bill Clinton coalitions, or form a similarly sized one of their own, then we lose.
Personally I think it's a no brainer to vote for the winner of the Democratic primary even though I have problems with both candidates. Either of them are far closer to my ideal position than any of the Republicans are.
Autumn Colors
(2,379 posts)Sounds like they're keeping Joe Biden in the wings just in case ... so it doesn't sound like they're willing to vote for Bernie to me ...
As for me, I will NOT vote for Hillary, I'll write in Bernie's name on my ballot.
Sounds like I'm not the only one either ...
LA Times article:
If Bernie Sanders loses, his backers may not be there for Hillary Clinton in November
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)I don't even tell my wife how I vote.
Do you think I'd tell you?
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)dflprincess
(28,086 posts)Once upon a time I said I'd vote for her - but the more I see of her, the harder it is for me to think of it that way.
polichick
(37,152 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)of planned BernieBro riots in brewpubs all over part of the Pacific Northwest.
It'll be apocalyptic.
NanceGreggs
(27,820 posts)... of everyone who voted for HRC and leave their "comments"?
srobert
(81 posts)If Bernie Sanders is not the Democratic nominee, I'll change my registration to the Green party and begin working to get Jill Stein onto my state's ballot. Failing that I will vote "None of the Above". If this results in a Republican being President, then maybe in 2020 Democrats will give us a more progressive candidate. I don't want a Republican to be President. For God's sake, give me a nominee that I can vote for.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)You make a dangerous assumption there and double down on in by suggesting that Bernie supporters won't vote for her.
What is your evidence??
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Maybe not joyfully, or enthusiastically, but I will support our party against the horrific alternative.
Not vote for her ..... Hillary is really Repub light just like Billy C.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)aikoaiko
(34,185 posts)fourcents
(107 posts)progressive Democratic voters with high ideological standards. They think of her as a Republican light. Then their is those that know the system is rigged so what is the point. Funny thing though a lot of Republicans and Libertarians would vote for Senator Sanders. Even though he can be trusted on reforming gun laws their is a vast amount of voters that thinks Hillary will take away their guns so that would help Senator Sanders if he was the POTUS candidate.