Ellison no lock for DNC chair

[Gothmog]

61. You are again totally wrong

Again you are ignoring the real world and the facts including a concept called math. Sanders ran a nasty campaign that was far nastier than the Clinton/Obama 2008 campaign. Sanders never had a chance of being the nominee. Clinton's lead in delegates over Sanders in 2016 was more than four times the lead that President Obama had over Clinton in 2008. Math is important in the real world. Facts are important also. You are simply wrong in your claims and you are ignoring the math.

Sanders had no chance whatsoever of overcoming Clinton's lead. In 2008, Clinton immediately endorsed President Obama and worked to elect him from day one. Sanders kept his campaign going until a week or so before the convention when he finally decided that he had squeezed enough concessions. Sanders conduct was simply wrong and unprofessional. Sanders did his best to hurt Clinton even though Sander had zero chance of catching Clinton or even significantly cut into her lead. Sanders delay in endorsing Clinton gave his supporters the false hope that he could be the nominee which in turn hurt Clinton in the general election.

I was a national delegate. Sanders was threatening to force four or five roll call votes until until the Saturday of the convention. Again, the Clinton campaign had a whipping infrastructure that kept all delegates informed. It was on Sunday before the convention when I learned that Clinton gave into Sanders demands to avoid these floor votes. Even then, Sanders did not seriously try to get his supporters to support Clinton. Again, the whipping infrastructure saw all of the texts sent by sanders to his delegates and the Clinton team was at all meetings of Sanders and his delegates. Sanders did not really try very hard to get his supporters to behave or support Clinton. Again, I was there.

Again, your claims are simply false and ignore a concept called math. Sanders had no chance of winning the nomination but his campaign was dirty and was designed to give his supporters the false hope that he could win. Sanders tactics hurt Clinton in the general election and are why I think that it would be a bad move to let any Sanders supporter be in charge of the DNC.