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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the centrists in this party did some introspection, too. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)(In Washington state, everyone is a registered independent, but my Dem identification is clear).
It's almost impossible to find threads from that many months ago in our current search feature, but I did endorse her about a week before the convention.
You have no reason to think I would lie about something like that.
It's enough that I accept that HRC won. It wasn't "overwhelming" Bernie took about 43% of the overall vote)but it was decisive and Bernie's support level was not insignificant.
My argument at the time of the convention and in the fall was that the fall campaign should have been treated as a partnership, blending the best of the HRC platform and the best of the Sanders platform, and treating both campaigns with parity of esteem.
Doing that would have harmed no one and would likely have guaranteed us a popular vote margin large enough to put us over the top in the Electoral College.
And to move forward now, we need to move past identification as Sanders people or Clinton people, and simply accept that both groups have a right to be in the party ad the values of both groups can naturally blend.