2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]portlander23
(2,078 posts)Yep. Sure the DNC stacked the deck against him. Sure the media didn't cover him. Also, Bernie tried slapping together a campaign right before the primary started. He didn't invest time in the South. He was late in his outreach to BLM. We can argue about all the reasons why Bernie didn't win the primary, but he didn't. Ultimately people didn't vote for him.
However, that was largely among mostly Democratic Party members that were eligible to vote in the primary. Polls showed that Sanders was a stronger general candidate against Trump, but ultimately it wasn't Bernie in an actual election so who knows.
What we do know is that the Clinton third-way model crashed and burned in the only election that actually counted, and it was because Hillary Clinton lost votes across all demographic groups that Obama carried in 2012. We also know based on the exit polls is that the people earning the least, who feel the most economic anxiety regardless of race did not show up.
You want to die on the hill that Democrats can't offer economic justice along side civil rights, have at it.
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