Hillary Clinton is a very smart person. She saw the support

[MineralMan]

46. Bernie's support included a lot of people who would

never call themselves Democrats. Many have loathed the Democratic Party for quite some time. Bernie, himself, has not been a fan of the Democratic Party much at all.

That's the nature of the 2016 primaries. A lot of people with no real connection to the Democratic Party made Bernie Sanders their champion and, like Bernie, "joined" the party for these primaries. How they vote in the General Election varies. Many will vote for the Democratic candidate as the better of the two choices, but without any real connection to the party itself.

Others will return to voting for the Green or Libertarian candidate or for no candidate at all. This year, about 40% of the primary vote was for Sanders. I'd guess that about half of those votes were from actual Democratic Party members.

I like Sanders. I like Hillary. Each for different reasons. But I'm a Democrat Party member of long-standing and am active in the Party organization where I live. I know all of the active party organization folks in my district. They'll all be campaigning for Hillary. A lot of Bernie supporters will basically disappear from things like the 2018 election, leaving just the hard-core Democratic Party folks to work on that mid-term election.

It's an old story. The difference is that this year Sanders pulled a lot of people out of wherever they were to get involved. I'd love it if they stuck around and helped out in 2018, but I don't expect it.