Sanders brushes off Clinton criticism: 'Look forward and not backward'

[thesquanderer]

64. To some, he's damned if he looks back, damned if he doesn't.

As primary campaigns go, I think his was about as UN-damaging to his competition as any primary campaign can be... a campaign whose goal is, after all, to win. For example, I gave an example in another thread of where he could have gone for the jugular, and didn't (buried at post #465 in the thread at https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029555324 ).

And remember, in the end, Clinton DID win the popular vote, quite substantially. So in the end, at least in hindsight, it probably would have been better if at least one of the two of them had done more Fall campaigning in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. I'm not sure how much of that you can lay at Sanders' feet, though. I imagine his campaigning for Hillary was largely based on where Hillary's people wanted him to go.