How Bernie Sanders lost me ... and Hillary Clinton won me over

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11. Ugh, the comments really are vile.

I made the mistake of reading down. Don't, if you haven't, they leave a rather bad taste in the mouth.

Simply put, there are a lot of people who agree with Clawson, but don't say it because the Bernistas scream them into silence. I was one of them--it's just that Bernie lost me at Datagate. If you read down, one commenter noted s/he was in the same boat, and got roundly battered.

Honestly. Does that actually work to get anybody to vote for their candidate? I don't think so. If anything, it simply turns people strongly against Bernie. That worked for me, too--I went from neutral but interested to slightly negative to strongly negative.