There's folks who are CALLED "alt-left", and there are Bernie supporters...they are not the same.

[Ken Burch]

85. There were many things she could not control(and I have no personal issue with her)

What I think would have made the difference would have been

1)Acknowledging(not paternizing, not kowtowing-to, but ACKNOWLEDGING) the Sanders phenomenon and the validity of what it was about, and treating the Sanders people as partners in the process. With young voters whose party loyalty and trust in the process has not been cemented that would have made a huge difference, and it could have been done without doing any disservice to those already solidly with us;

2)Centering the campaign ads on the platform and what we proposed to do, rather than wasting so much time attacking Trump as a scumbag-focusing so much on him made it look as though WE had nothing to offer;

The voters were never going to elect us just because Trump was a verbal sewer-they needed to know what we would do FOR them. They always need to know that, and we always have to work on the assumption that the voters have short memories.