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In reply to the discussion: Biden: "I Never Thought Hillary Was The Correct Candidate" [View all]That Guy 888
(1,214 posts)Clinton probably would have lost the popular vote too. An independent Sanders run would have split the Democratic vote, possibly even down-ticket and helped boost Trump's electoral and popular vote numbers.
"If a candidate insists on being a spoiler, at least limit the damage to 3rd party. I would love it if a candidate could come along that I could support that wouldn't turn into a spoiling jackass for once."
I don't see how campaigning for Hillary Clinton in the general election is being "a spoiling jackass". What major mea culpa tour would Sanders have had to do to prove he was supporting Clinton? Saying he was a spoiler in the General Election is ludicrous. Nader ran as an independent, and the usual suspects blamed him for Gore's loss as well.
At the beginning of the 2016 campaign I was eager to vote for whichever Democratic candidate won the primary. When the general election came around, for the first time I was happy to be in a solid Red-state. Knowing that if I pulled up in a tractor-trailer full of fake ID's and disguises and voted for Clinton all day long it would have made no difference freed me to vote how I wanted to. That's on the Clinton campaign, not Comey - I didn't care about the email/server issue. Not Putin/Russia, I never bought into pizza-gate. Not the GOP, I knew their Benghazi concerns were best reflected by their refusal to beef up security before the attack. Triangulation had some success in the 90's, that was twenty years ago. The Democratic Party needs to stop chasing Republican votes.