Hillary May Have Just LOST This Campaign

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224. Many "PUMAs" were

"bandwagon Dems" who hoped for personal gain from Clinton's bootstraps. And some, of course, were trying to do everything they could in 2008 to split the Dem vote, whatever lip service they gave to Hillary's candidacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_United_Means_Action

There certainly was some residual bad feeling after the primaries in 2008, in part because some believed - with reason - that Hillary's coverage in the press had generally been less favorable than Barack's. Hillary's coverage then was decidedly - and intentionally - sexist, just as it will continue to be. The US MSM trotted most bad press coverage for Barack out in the general election.

There was also the fact that at some state levels (I have secondhand knowledge of what happened in MT), Obama "supporters" were personally and gratuitously nasty towards Hillary supporters - and that was very discouraging for lifelong Dems like my sisters to see.

I am sure that Obama himself would have been appalled by this whenever and wherever it happened.

I hate to say that I have seen some of that nastiness here at DU - not directly towards me personally, thank heavens.

But every Hillary supporter that I know from 2008 - and I was one of them - voted for Barack Obama in 2008 - unreservedly and with all our hearts. I also contributed substantially to his general election campaign. As we all did again in 2012.