WaPo: Russia paid for Facebook ads encouraging Bernie supporters not to vote last November

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94. That's not true at all

Bernie, like comey, the msnbc crowd, the president, and the whole world thought there wasn't really a need to campaign hard for Hillary.

My observation of Bernie was that he was scared witless Trump might win.

But hey, even in the face of pro-Bernie FACTS (e.g., he went twice to WI), it's still important to find fault with him -- speculate that his speeches were limp, imply that his heart wasn't in it because he thought Hillary would win.

I think a lot of people are a little embarrassed by how lightly they took the ass and did not push harder.

I can't think of ANYONE -- elected or rank and file voter -- who feels that way other than those who refused to vote for Hillary, and a good big bunch of them weren't Democrats to start with.

What kinds of Sanders voters supported Trump?

Perhaps the most important feature of Sanders-Trump voters is this: They weren’t really Democrats to begin with.

Of course, we know that many Sanders voters did not readily identify with the Democratic Party as of 2016, and Schaffner found that Sanders-Trump voters were even less likely to identify as Democrats. Sanders-Trump voters didn’t much approve of Obama either.

In fact, this was true well before 2016. In the VOTER Survey, we know how Sanders-Trump voters voted in 2012, based on an earlier interview in November 2012. Only 35 percent of them reported voting for Obama, compared with 95 percent of Sanders-Clinton voters. In other words, Sanders-Trump voters were predisposed to support Republicans in presidential general elections well before Trump’s candidacy.

Schaffner found that what distinguished Sanders-Trump voters from Sanders-Clinton voters wasn’t their attitudes about trade, but their attitudes about race. When asked whether whites are advantaged, Sanders-Trump voters were much more likely to disagree than were Sanders-Clinton voters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/24/did-enough-bernie-sanders-supporters-vote-for-trump-to-cost-clinton-the-election/