What message would we send if we quickly rejected Bernie and crowned HRC?

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232. You just dismissed entire races of people as unable to make decisions based on their own interests

and claimed, based on no evidence, that they want to go with the front runner. You refuse to even consider the possibility that they do know who supports their interests and who doesn't. The fact that you folks dismiss huge swaths, in fact the majority, of the population as inferior to yourselves is why you will not succeed. When you lack the basic respect to listen and consider what huge swaths of the population care about, you advance a politics of the few by the few. That turns people off. You are certainly not anywhere close to the worst offender. But that dismissal of African Americans and Latinos above is not wise, and it's something they are quite likely to see as hostile exclusion. That is at least suggested in the comments by some African American members to similar comments in a thread on recent polling data. They have described it as seeing them as inferior, not intelligent enough to know their own interests. Perhaps you ought to consider that your and their interests are not the same, and therefore your candidate may not be as appealing to them. If you want to persuade anyone to support your candidate, you need to seriously reevaluate your approach.