5 Things Hillary Can Do to Win Over Bernie’s Supporters

[Warren Stupidity]

s Bernie Sanders said last night, he’s “pretty good with arithmetic.” While a win in California might, just about, have furnished grounds for an appeal to the superdelegates based on momentum, or on his ability to take more votes away from Donald Trump, that isn’t how it turned out. Those of us who, after New Hampshire and Michigan, allowed ourselves to believe that the political revolution this country so urgently needs might start at the top in November—a group that might well include Sanders himself—will need some time, first of all, to mourn that dream.

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Calling on Sanders to “fall in line” now may satisfy some idiotic pundit’s need to assert himself, but it is precisely the opposite course from one which might succeed in winning over the voters Clinton will need to defeat Donald Trump. What should Clinton and her supporters do instead? Here are five ways—some easy, some not so easy—to help Sanders supporters over the line:

1) Back off. We know you won—and that you conceded to Obama two days after the last primary. But the last primaries in 2008 were Montana and South Dakota, which weren’t going to change anything. Sanders wants to go to Philadelphia with as many delegates as possible—just like you did in 2008. So stop pushing him to quit before DC votes—and maybe call off your attack dogs for the week too.

2) Try to be genuinely gracious. Yes, it’s been a tough campaign, and some of Sanders’s blows have caused damage (Cough! Those transcripts. Cough!) But you’ve won, and although there are probably attacks coming from directions you can’t yet imagine, Sanders at least has given you some practice in the counterpunching you’ve always been good at—and will desperately need to defeat Trump. He’s also pulled our sense of political possibility to the left in a way that any progressive—even a “progressive who gets things done”—should welcome.

http://www.thenation.com/article/5-things-hillary-can-do-to-win-over-bernies-supporters/

[djean111]

1. She would have to be against war and fracking and increasing H-1B visas and the TPP and cluster

bombs and for Single Payer, for starters. I don't care how she acts, or how her supporters act. Faux graciousness is kinda revolting.
It's the ISSUES. She can't/won't change that. So no.

[valerief]

3. ^^^THIS^^^

[Ino]

2. It's not how she ACTS...

Making nice will just be one more phony act.

It's what she IS.

[JoePhilly]

4. 1. Obama, 2. Warren, 3. Keith Ellison ...

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4. Julian Castro
5. Biden