Please stop telling me I'm voting for Sanders because I'm a purist who wants a pony.

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31. primary voters should be purists (to they extent each of us is)

We should tell ALL candidates what we want. I'd like to see 100 options on the ballot so we can all say exactly what we prefer. Some single-issue. Some economic focused. Some social focused. Some general approach to governing. Etc. The priorities (votes) would differ across the country and even across many states. And the candidates can see how voters feel on issues. Seeing which candidates/issues get votes is more telling that what (rigged) surveys say voters care about. Of course this depends on voters actually paying attention and learning about the candidates rather than being swayed by ads and mud.

Then the general election candidate would know pretty exactly what the voters are FOR. The way it is now primary votes mean very little in terms of issues. Is my vote about a single issue? Which one? Or a majority of the candidate's issues? Or only about electability in the general?

As it is now, when the candidate is elected, he/she will push his/her/donors'/lobbyists' main issues regardless of how the voters felt about those issues. And we expect a pony and they tell us we gave them a mandate to give us pony poop.

If Sanders gets 5% in the primaries, Hillary can pretty much ignore his voters on issues they differ. If he gets 30% she'll have to consider those voters in the first term or she'll have a tough time in reelection if she delivers too much pony poop.

Also, if you were a real purist you'd want a unicorn. At least at this point in the process we need to be vocal about exactly what we want in a candidate.