Give it a break, Bernie.

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103. But, the cold reality is that Democratic leaning Independents vote in November.

Or don't vote because they had no chance to pick a candidate and hence develop affinity for a candidate.

I really don't think allowing Independents to vote in the Democratic primary would have changed the ultimate result, it would have trimmed her margin a little (actual studies have shown this), but Hillary would still have won the primary comfortably before super delegates were counted. What allowing Democrat leaning Independents to vote would have done is take their not voting away as a campaign issue for republicans and it would have more invested those voters in the eventual Democratic nominee.

Lastly, some of the things Bernie said during the primary campaign and his failure to full throated endorse Hillary when it was clear he could not win the nomination didn't help, but some tactical mistakes Hillary made like not early releasing speech transcripts and all emails, as well as not spending more time out visiting small and medium sized cities likely hurt her worst that Bernie's bullshit.