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In reply to the discussion: Enough with the scolding please. [View all]Tom Rinaldo
(22,910 posts)"Bernie's and Stein's continued presence..." You mean after July until the November election? Would you rather that Bernie had gone radio silent and refused to endorse Hillary and campaign for her? Or do you mean he should have gone away before we nominated Hillary? Or never ran against her in the first place?
Some of the most shrill voices deploring the lack of party unity in 2016 were P.U.M.A.s for Hillary in 2008.
There are Green party voters in every election. If anything it was the Libertarians luring away millennial voters from voting Democratic that hurt our chances. Why no mention of Johnson and Weld? They got 5 times the votes that Stein got.
Over 13 million people voted for Bernie in the Democratic primaries. I find every post that focuses on how Sanders supposedly helped cost Hillary Clinton the presidency "a rationale to remain divided".