Sanders booed by House Democrats

[Jim Lane]

201. I'm not seeing a threat here.

Most people who supported Bernie will vote for Clinton. Some definitely won't. There's a group in the middle that might still be persuaded either way. You completely disdain them, but my guess is that your candidate is a lot smarter than that and is not writing them off the way you would.

Any candidate faces the problem that you can't please all the people all the time. Clinton knows that she can't completely adopt Bernie's program or she'll alienate many of the more conservative voters, but she also can't do a complete Etch-A-Sketch pivot to the right. Barring that complete pivot, Bernie will endorse her. There's no "threat" that he won't unless she does something completely unforeseeable. Nevertheless, despite Clinton supporters' readiness to impute messianic adoration to Bernie's supporters, the fact is that his endorsement will have some influence but won't automatically deliver all his voters. The conduct of Clinton and the Democratic Party will also have some effect on how many of the Bernie supporters end up voting for Clinton.