The pundits like axelrod who said in real world Bernie would never be president

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15. I think you missed my point.

A slightly better strategy would have had him the nom.

All too often we do not select the best candidate with the best ideas. Bernie's ideas were better, hands down. He just didn't understand electoral math.

Despite the ridiculous odds of him finishing the race, he not only finished - he came within a handful of percentage points of winning a changed a decent chunk of Hillary's platform.

All of this came from a guy who had the DNC Chair working against him, no high-profile cabinet seats in a presidential administration, no super-PACs, and basically forfeited the south.

The only misstep Bernie actually took was forfeiting the south. I applaud him for running a campaign that didn't take money from Super PACs, the rest was out of his control and didn't make that big a difference in the end.