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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders is making his long goodbye count - By E.J. Dionne Jr. [View all]NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)26. Oh look, more hypersensitivity.

Good grief: "Anti-millennial"?? Seriously?

If that's how some of them feel about (or how they react to) criticism... it suggests to me that some of them need to be treated delicately before they'll "get excited for Clinton"... and it helps to illustrate the point I was trying to make.
Perhaps when those particular individuals become "older people," then they'll be able to make their voting decisions based on choosing which candidate is best for the country, instead of "protest-voting", or "protest not-voting", or basing their voting decisions on whether or not they felt condescended to on an internet discussion web site.
he mentioned he congratulated her on her wins in that meeting
That's nice. He congratulated her on her previous "wins" (as you say) but no public congratulations on her being the presumptive nominee, nor on the historic significance of her accomplishment.
Yep, he's overplayed his hand.
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People who were irritated with him months ago are irritated with him now. What's nuts is that some
Chathamization
Jun 2016
#3
Wrong. It's not about making Hillary supporters "happy". (How silly.) Instead ...
NurseJackie
Jun 2016
#4
His strategy is working. People on both sides admit that Sanders voters are largely migrating to
Chathamization
Jun 2016
#6
He gets exactly zero credit for that. They're migrating to Clinton because she's a better option
geek tragedy
Jun 2016
#8
Funny, people were saying it would be his fault if they didn't do that. I suppose he only gets
Chathamization
Jun 2016
#9
he's not actively interfering with them moving over to her to oppose Trump.
geek tragedy
Jun 2016
#11
Sanders _might_ have a better idea about how to convince Sanders supporters than the people who have
Chathamization
Jun 2016
#12
Sanders hasn't said Clinton is much better than Trump in several weeks, if not months
geek tragedy
Jun 2016
#13
He just said last week that he will be voting for Clinton... and that Trump is worse...
GeorgiaPeanuts
Jun 2016
#22
Again, you're not the target audience. Sanders has said he would vote for Clinton, that his focus is
Chathamization
Jun 2016
#28
again, Sanders supporters aren't migrating because of anything Sanders is saying.
geek tragedy
Jun 2016
#30
You're assuming that you know Sanders supporters better than they know themselves
Chathamization
Jun 2016
#32
I think you're underestimating the importance of Bernie working on the platform and how that helps
aikoaiko
Jun 2016
#35
What political capital does Sanders have now? Sanders supporter flocking to Clinton in faster
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#17
Point being Sanders statistically has no holdout voters and his progressive bonafides is replaced by
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#19
To late for him to claim 3rd party for national elections, no... he has no leverage but he did weeks
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#36
I see the hardline Bernie Bashers are still bashing Bernie instead of discussing what Dionne has to
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2016
#14