2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumthose 2.4 million votes. . .
I had a thought about that. I hope we are not policing thoughts these days or this will be removed by the thought police.
It struck me when I saw this picture on twitter.
We have all seen the kind of crowds Bernie gets. Then there was that hashtag the Hillary people started for Bernie to drop out so some Bernie people started one for Hillary to drop out. I remember the numbers at one point there were 17,000 for Bernie to quit and 575,000 for Hillary to quit. Also indicating a huge disparity in support.
A few weeks ago we learned that Hillary was maxed out for donors and now she's going to Republican donors for money, but Bernie's donors won't ever max out.
All this adds up to Yuuuuuge support for Bernie. But what about those votes? Giant crowds, giant twitters, giant donations. And then, low votes. It doesn't add up.
Then you recall all those massive "irregularities".
THEY have been creating the narrative that those Bernie supporters are on some joy ride and not voting. . . .I thought of an alternative explanation. . . their votes "disappear" in the "irregularities".
Logically there are only 2 cases to explain the MASSIVE Bernie support and then the lack of votes. . . (1) Bernie supporters are scatter brained or (2) they aren't.
And from the things I read on twitter, they seem very well informed.
Just putting that idea out there.
Are we a censorship site or one for ideas? This is just an idea don't be afraid.
YouDig
(2,280 posts)Response to YouDig (Reply #1)
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YouDig
(2,280 posts)Thing is, there are many more people who vote but don't go to political rallies. Like me.
And I agree exactly with what you say about Hillary. Well put.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)he can only do large rallies and is unable to talk one on one with ordinary citizens?
Why should we embrace a candidate who does rallies where he can repeat empty slogans to the crowed and avoids smaller venues where he'd have to answer in depth questions from individual people?
Why should we embrace a candidate who holds large rallies and then fails to organize all those who attended and get them to vote?
frustrated_lefty
(2,774 posts)the confederacy big-time. On any other day of the year, for any other person, that would be cause for castigation.
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)Skink
(10,122 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Skink
(10,122 posts)And this right on so many issues