If Sen Sanders does get the nod.. the Democratic Party will vote for him

[Peacetrain]

There has only been on candidate whose campaign leadership voted for a third party when that candidate did not win!!

All other assertions are a DISQUALIFICATION

just saying

[AJT]

1. Moderate Republicans will not. I know several people moderate

Republicans who either voted for Hillary or left the presidential choice blank, they would vote for Biden but never for Bernie.

[Peacetrain]

2. They absolutely will not..and Independents..

We will lose to Trump.. my biggest fear.. all the oppo will drop on Sen Sanders head like a ton of bricks.

[Bear Creek]

11. Not enough to worry about.

That is why democrats lose. Running republicans as candidates and worried about republican votes. They will not vote for Warren by the way. I think Bloomberg is running because he is afraid Elizabeth will win.

[thesquanderer]

24. Sanders would lose some moderate Republicans, but he would gain some...

...of the anti-establishment shake-things-up voters who went for Trump last time, not because they were so happy with Trump but because they saw him as closer to what they wanted than a mainstream establishment figure like Hillary. I think it is unclear as to which of these two groups are bigger... moderate non-Dems who would vote for a moderate Dem like Biden (but not Sanders), vs. non-mainstream types who would cross back to Sanders (but not Biden).

[NurseJackie]

25. Nobody in my family will vote for him... they have told me so.

They'd rather see Trump win than turn the party over to Bernie... if that gives you any idea.

[shutterbug-gal]

29. Gallup poll data says 53% if voters will not vote for a socialist. https://www.usnews.com/news/ele

https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2020-02-11/poll-americans-wont-vote-for-a-socialist-presidential-candidate

[doc03]

3. I will he is 1000% better than Trump. nt

[Peacetrain]

7. We all will..unfortunately

there is just not enough of us in particular states to pull him over the line..

[FarPoint]

4. I don't sense a total commitment in the mix...for Bernie...

I myself, feel sluggish with Bernie...I have never missed an election! Always voted Democratic...always....This time, I find it extremely hard to find inspiration to vote., if Bernie is the nominee/candidate...I probably will...but doubt those who are not as invested as I have been will just...stay home....It is a realistic concern.

[John Fante]

8. The moderates are turning into Bernie Busters right

before our eyes. This sucks.

[Liberty Belle]

5. Bernie's new TV ad shows workers with message "betrayed by Trump"

I saw it last night. Looks like he is trying to win disaffected Trump voters, the ones who may not be religious zealots or bigots, but who voted for Trump because factories closed, their rust belt jobs went away, or they're just strugglng in low wages jobs or unemployed.

That could be an effective strategy for him.

Ultra conservatives are not going to vote Dem if you ran the Pope, but pushing an economic message for the many who are not doing well in the Trump economy could be his best best if he is the nominee.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. People will weigh his proposals and how they will be affected

Catering to millennials with money and programs will alienate senior voters. He will have to say how he will pay for it, and voters will have to decide if they're ok with that, and judge if he can pass it through the Democratic Establishment in Congress.

[jaysunb]

14. Not to mention the Democratic base ( African Americans ) will not be enthusiastic.

Just like with Clinton, older folks will go.along with the nomiinee, the younger generation will ignore the elections.

[wyldwolf]

9. Not necessarily

A Democratic candidate doesn't lose 49 and 44 states, respectively, if Democrats believed their horse in the races were the better choices.

[Peacetrain]

12. There is just not enough Party Democrats to single handedly

pull him over the line.. that is my fear..

[wyldwolf]

15. It's a legitimate fear

Nixon, in '72, and Reagan, in '80, won A LOT of Democrats. A LOT of them. Along with Independents. People say the fear of another Trump term will motivate people to vote for Bernie. That's isn't a forgone conclusion. Some Democrats believe another Republican term is tolerable if it means getting a better option in 4 years.

[Squinch]

10. I will. But lots of Democrats won't.

[Cha]

13. You got that right, Peacetrain!

[Peacetrain]

17. Its going to be a full on hard slog Cha

especially with Sanders and his campaign leadership attacking the Democratic Party full time.. voting against Hillary and rehire the same people.. I still have full faith that we can actually get a Democrat to lead the party..

[Cha]

19. BS doesn't deserve to be the Democratic

nominee.

Hanging in there..

[Peacetrain]

20. AMen to that

[musette_sf]

35. I agree

[Moderateguy]

16. we here at DU are a VERY SMALL section of the democratic party

We will all definitely vote blue no matter what. The problem is that a lot of democrats in Congress and state legislatures will have to campaign against Bernie to try and keep their seats. I would not be shocked if there were ads by democratic candidates saying they would NOT support the Sanders agenda.

[Peacetrain]

18. I know, I know..

All those people we got back in red areas in 2018..there is no coattail for them in the Sanders campaign..

[Cha]

21. Right.

[dalton99a]

22. Don't forget what they sent out on the eve of Election Day to kneecap the nominee:

[Peacetrain]

23. And he hired that SOB back..

[still_one]

26. That was his attempt to unify the party

[kentuck]

27. No nominee can be expected to win every state.

At least, if history is any indication.

I am inclined to believe that the candidate with the most votes in the primaries will probably be our strongest nominee.

If Bernie is that nominee, I will have no qualms in supporting him. The industrial states will be interesting. If Bernie can win those, then that would be very encouraging. Nobody really expects him to win states like Alabama or Mississippi. But if he can win back Michigan, Wisconsin, and PA, he may not be as weak as some people may think.

The "socialist" label is just that. He cannot get anything passed as a "socialist" but he might be able to get stuff passed as a Democrat? That is the political reality, notwithstanding any of the labels. As I recall, Obama was called a "Socialist" also.

[EveHammond13]

30. BUT NOT THE SWING STATE VOTERS WE NEED

[kentuck]

32. But does that assume that the Bernie voters will automatically vote for the "moderate" candidate?

What if there are more Bernie voters than swing voters? Are we willing to sacrifice the Bernie voters?

[Happy Hoosier]

36. Perhaps we are too fractured to offer resistance.

Maybe, like the UK, the left and center are simply unable to work together to defeat Trump.

[left-of-center2012]

34. Your 1st post to DU

And it got deleted ?