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2016 Postmortem
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Dkos: No, Senator Sanders; YOU are out of touch (opinion piece) [View all]
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Huffington Post: Bernie Sanders Should Not be Allowed to Hold the Democratic Party Hostage [View all]
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I just LOVE Bernie Sanders for saying this. It is so unsexist and so unmisogynistic! [View all]
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Its Time for Bernie Sanders to Apologize to his Supporters, and to President Obama [View all]
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Bernie: Dems lost because they "took they bait," meaning "Wall Street money." [View all]
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Looking back I, personally, see no benefit to Democrats from Sanders or his supporters [View all]
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If the Democratic Party decides to ignore the concerns of minority voters to get white 'Rust Belt' [View all]
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Do you have loved ones who voted for Trump who you KNOW are NOT racists/sexists/bigots? [View all]
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Which group of reliable democrats are YOU willing to lose to get White Men to vote Democratic? (Poll) [View all]
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How were we supposed to reach 'Rural Whites' and still maintain our base? [View all]
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There's no good reason to anathematize Bernie and his supporters. [View all]
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As a black loyal Democrat, I say SCREW the white working class who insist on voting Republican [View all]
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If Bernie thinks the only way to win is to win white working class voters at the expense of [View all]
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White progressive analysis of politics is fundamentally broken. [View all]
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I fear Democrats are laying the groundwork for future losses by refusing to learn from defeat [View all]
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Bernie Sanders Would Have Lost the Election in a Landslide [View all]
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In all the "Bernie would have won/No he wouldn't" posts I've read........... [View all]
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If you don't think Bernie and his campaign and his supporters basically calling Hillary [View all]
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Who should have been the democratic party nominee for president? [View all]
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2016 Postmortem Continued...
Bernie Sanders Says Trump Won Because Democrats Are Out Of Touch [View all]
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If you fought against Hillary Clinton after the Democratic convention, [View all]
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A word about all these threads implying white voters are racists [View all]
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In under the wire... I am still very angry with Bernie Sanders [View all]
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And the 2016 Ralph Nader Award Goes to Bernie Sanders - Time.com [View all]
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A candidate that gets "damaged" by a primary run has no business anywhere near the GE. [View all]
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Bernie filled stadiums. Much as I like Hillary, she just wasn't an exciting candidate. [View all]
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You could see it coming. Hillary should never have run in 2016. [View all]
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Suggestion: we stop with the "Chump" "tRump" "RePug" namecalling and focus on issues [View all]
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RIP "coronation" and "her turn." Sad BS memes finally pass their expiration date. [View all]
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To Sanders supporters FROM a Sanders supporter: please stop saying Bernie should've got the nom. [View all]
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So is our message really that all Trump voters are racist and that's why we lost? [View all]
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Just for the sake of discussion what if Bernie was nominated? [View all]
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NBC News: How Bernie Sanders Avoided Disclosing His Personal Finances [View all]
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History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes; lessons from 2004 re: the gun issue. [View all]
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Bernie Sanders wistful about a missed matchup against Trump: 'I wish to God I'd had the opportunity' [View all]
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David Brock apologizes for the way he treated Bernie in the Campaign! [View all]
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No You Cant : Why Im Still Crying Over Hillary Clintons Loss. [View all]
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How are the continuing attempts to delegitmize Bernie's campaign NOT "refighting the primaries"? [View all]
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Fuck the braindead notion that we can say "Fuck the white working class." [View all]
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2016 Postmortem Continued...
Why are people so insistent that the Democratic Party is fatally flawed? [View all]
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Please stop with this b***shit that the Democrats are out of touch with the voting population [View all]
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Yes, Bernie Sanders would have beaten Trump, but the real question is [View all]
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Rural Democrats: Party Ignored Us, Suffered the Consequences [View all]
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In the end, Bernie Sanders was right, and what the Democrats need to learn from his campaign. [View all]
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Things I Blame For Hillary Clintons Loss, Ranked (Huff Po) [View all]
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Nina Turner on How to Make the Democratic Party Great Again [View all]
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And FYI? Voting for a racist asshole makes you a racist asshole. Even if you lost yr job. [View all]
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Lots of traditionally alienated and disengaged people turned out for Sanders in the primaries [View all]
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Bernie Sanders did NOT ... NOT say ditch identity politics !!! [View all]
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Critical Discovery During Wisconsin Recount: Cellular Connectivity of Tabulators [View all]
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