2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A candidate that gets "damaged" by a primary run has no business anywhere near the GE. [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)They also have no business whining about what they could have done in a GE when it is clear they could not get enough votes to beat the LOSING candidate that won 2.5 MILLION more votes than the winner.
Serious, all this whinging about how somebody else would have been better is just sour grapes and really changes nothing. Best to figure out how to win a primary then work on trying to win a ge. The general isn't going to be held on college campuses and the whitest places in the nation if you are a democratic candidate, and ignoring or minimizinb the concerns of african americans and other underprivileged groups won't get them out to the polls and give you a 2.5 million vote surplus even if you lose. It will actually ensure that you are fighting over REPUBLICAN voters and the RELIABLE democrats who always vote would certainly not be enthusiatic for your candidate at all. And had you candidate lost but refused to concede, but somehow used tricks with superdelegates to win, those groups would stay home all together as you'd be telling them straight out that they do not matter and their votes do not count as much as your 'special'voters who somehow managed to be far far less concerned with and populated with minority voters.