WAPO: Bernie Sanders's strange behavior

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76. I think that's wishful thinking.

I know a lot of Sanders voters (and during the primaries I was one) who, like Bernie himself, don't identify themselves as Democrats. They were attracted to Bernie because he wasn't part of the Democratic establishment even though he chose to run for the Democratic party nomination rather than mount a 3rd party campaign. Without Bernie's express endorsement, I have no doubt that a sizable number of those voters viewed Ossoff, no matter what his progressive credentials, as part of the establishment and not someone they would fight for. And I'm not in any way excusing Clinton voters who undoubtedly sat out this election in sizable numbers as well.
My point is that we can't afford for anyone to sit on the sidelines and thus those party leaders (and whether he wants the title or not Sanders is a party leader) who have influence over segments of the electorate need to be vocal in pushing the message that all of these upcoming elections are as important as last November's election -- even moreso because of the results of last November's election.