2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher asks "If Bernie doesn’t get the nomination, who will stay home and not vote for Hillary?" [View all]Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Most of the establishment considers that the fix is in: the DNC, the money and the media are paving the way for a Clinton nomination and they believe they're winning, based on national polling.
But, they are smart enough to read the writing on the wall: the progressive base doesn't really like her. Sure, she has some strong supporters, but the left-leaning base, who does most of the heavy lifting and work driving voter turnout, isn't too keen on her war hawkishness and her Wall Street connections. They've fallen in love with Bernie.
So, we're being nagged to death to say we'll vote for the Third Way, corporate, war hawk candidate because they fear we either won't vote for her or, more importantly, won't have the enthusiasm to work to GOTV.
It's another test to gauge where the activists are and, judging from these threads, we aren't where they want us to be, so they keep asking.