2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Reuters national tracking poll: Hillary's lead increasing.. now leads 58-40. [View all]griffi94
(3,830 posts)where Bernies supporters just say he didn't win because he didn't connect with enough voters.
That the reason he's losing is because not enough voters are buying his message.
So far I haven't seen any Bernie voters suggest that he tweak his message, of narrow his
focus to a couple of bedrock issues that more voters might embrace.
His latest statements on poor people not voting was tone deaf at best.
Instead of cringing at the way it sounded Bernie supporters doubled down on it.
I haven't see one his supporters or even Bernie himself take any responsibility
at all for the position he's in.
It's always the fault of something or somebody else.
The south is too conservative, poor people don't vote, Bernies indies didn't realize the NY primary was closed,
there's a media blackout and people don't know him, the media ambushed him in his NYDN interview.
There are so many conspiracy theories floating around to absolve Bernie from any responsibility for his losses
that it sometimes feels like I've wandered into an Alex Jones forum.
I really don't think that among political junkies like the ones at DU it makes any difference but
to regular people that starts to come off as arrogance.