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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: For those saying you won't vote for the Democratic nominee [View all]Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)144. In 2006 you had Howard Dean
running left on a 50 state strategy, since abandoned by the DNC. Dean later moved right and became a lobbyist. Obama was the last beneficiary of that strategy, running Left in 2008, then right after he was elected. This disillusioned the voters in 2010, and they have not turned out since. If HRC is the nominee in 2016, they will stay home again.
Oh, and Obama did win in 2012, but only after he ran left again on gay rights and everyone hated Romney. But, he had zero coattails, and we lost even more seats in congress.
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+100. Clinton is ballot poison. She has earned her reputation as untrustworthy and self-promoting
Vote2016
Feb 2016
#114
Yep. She could not win the GE. A vote for her in the primary is a vote for Trümp in the GE.
GoneFishin
Feb 2016
#128
The young Bernie supporters claim that they shouldn't vote for someone simply because they have a
politicaljunkie41910
Feb 2016
#37
All this FREE STUFF in caps repetition looks like something one would expect to see over at that ...
Impedimentus
Feb 2016
#40
I've been told before that my FREE STUFF mantra is right-wing propaganda.
politicaljunkie41910
Feb 2016
#50
I have no idea where you interpreted something I said as " religious business". and your
politicaljunkie41910
Feb 2016
#111
Please, feel free to explicitly call me a fool, or anything else that might make you feel better.
Impedimentus
Feb 2016
#121
Perhaps staying up all night also makes you paranoid and you imagine things that don't exist.
politicaljunkie41910
Feb 2016
#118
Actually I've done okay thank you, the past few decades for a POC who was born and grew up in
politicaljunkie41910
Feb 2016
#125
Okay ... then,wouldn't the optimal electoral strategy be to focus on ...
1StrongBlackMan
Feb 2016
#47
It's just par for the course. It happens in every primary. I'm sure they will get
BreakfastClub
Feb 2016
#5
Us Bernie supporters are just lefty tea partyists as per Bill. Hillary doesn't need our votes.
PonyUp
Feb 2016
#8
If it's more important to you to make a simplistic and empty statement, then go ahead
Orrex
Feb 2016
#61
Well, since I wrote neither of those things, you must be responding to someone else
Orrex
Feb 2016
#210
I don't stand together with people who condone wars in Iraq, Libya, and Syria.
Maedhros
Feb 2016
#19
At the moment, the party can take 'unity' and shove it. I don't vote for ratfuckers...
Joe the Revelator
Feb 2016
#29
I guess one or two people finally noticed that the slime thrown at Sanders and his supporters
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Feb 2016
#30
Keeping a repub out of the White House is fare more important that which Democrat wins the primary.
anotherproletariat
Feb 2016
#44
And, lest we forget, the Democratic candidates who ostensibly fight for our "social issues"
Maedhros
Feb 2016
#171
I'm not saying I definitely won't vote Dem if it comes to that but I am saying
Nanjeanne
Feb 2016
#53
My vote in Arkansas wouldn't have made any difference in any Presidential election
Art_from_Ark
Feb 2016
#56
So after a week or two of solid alienation you guys finally remember there's a general to win.
Jester Messiah
Feb 2016
#70
her faction's said that everything's your fault if you don't vote for their drip candidates
MisterP
Feb 2016
#77
Lol...Bernie has supposedly not been loyal to the Democratic party, so why should we?
hoosierlib
Feb 2016
#81
Nominee needs to draw Independents and sane GOP. I truly don't see HRC pulling that off.
Jackilope
Feb 2016
#93
I will un-enroll from the party if Hillary is the nominee and she loses the GE.
Cobalt Violet
Feb 2016
#180
It's little more than childish pouting. Having a tantrum to get attention and to be validated ...
NurseJackie
Feb 2016
#108
Sorry HillDawg, some people are just too far gone. Core Dems compromise to make progress....
Hekate
Feb 2016
#140
I'm 72. For the first time in my voting life, we have a candidate with integrity. That's
JDPriestly
Feb 2016
#148
How many thousand threads like this have we seen so far? Anyone keeping track?
merrily
Feb 2016
#161
Very doubtful. Nevada caucuses were only Saturday. Thread like this have been being posted for years
merrily
Feb 2016
#183
I will gladly tell people why they should not vote Repub, but for will not be singing the praises of
GreenPartyVoter
Feb 2016
#208