2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Is Bernie and his supporters tough enough to face the Republicans and the corporate establishment? [View all]restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)she certainly has not been cleared when it comes to low info voters, the same ones that might be affected by a Bernie slam. So they are both at risk in the general election except that Bernie's "socialist" ideas have really started to take hold and are gaining popularity. The socialist boogie man is dead. Anybody who falls for that BS would not vote for any Democratic candidate anyway no matter who it was.
and regarding the issue of electability, many people on Du have said that they know conservatives and Republicans who expressed interest in Bernie. There are no Republicans for Hillary, and they would crawl over broken glass during a blizzard to get to the polls to vote against her. She has no crossover appeal at all. She will lose to Trump, and Bernie will beat him handily.