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In reply to the discussion: Sanders: 'Despair is not an option' [View all]ProfessorPlum
(11,461 posts)28. I disagree
Sanders helped Clinton shape her replies and arguments that she would use when the GOP nominee accused her of being too close to corporations. You don't think that practice helped her? It honed and sharpened her responses for when accusations were hurled by a much less polite opponent. And, it helped to make her platform more progressive, which helped her win the majority of votes.
It's one of the reasons we have primaries, and not coronations.
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Good lord. I have never seen a politician(s supporters) so butt hurt over a primary race
ProfessorPlum
Mar 2017
#27
Two points, to specifically address what you said above (so this isn't alerted...
George II
Mar 2017
#45
Somebody needs to sit in the back of the room and throw good ideas at the bad ones
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2017
#11
Or she should have seen the damage she had done to her campaign and dropped out.
dogman
Mar 2017
#23
I was just thinking the same thing ! Wonder if he feels any guilt - think he should - and I voted
Laura PourMeADrink
Mar 2017
#25