2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I know the DU is only a petri dish in the big picture but [View all]MineralMan
(146,317 posts)those for the leader. Most Hillary supporters will simply vote for her and that's it. They're not going to rallies or voting in online polls. They don't see the need to do that, nor do most of them have the time.
Most U.S. voters are in no way activists. They just show up and vote on election day. They don't have bumper stickers or yard signs, either. They just go to their polling place and cast their votes.
They sure as hell don't show up at precinct caucuses in Minnesota, but in Presidential election years, over 60% of them show up at their precinct's polling place.
DU is simply not representative in any way of voters in general. Not even close. DU is Confirmation-bias Central, really. The entire active membership of DU doesn't add up to 0.1% of Democratic voters. The entire active Democratic Internet discussion audience probably doesn't hit 3% of Democratic voters.
Voters are vastly misunderstood and underestimated. They'll decide for themselves, regardless of what hair-on-fire activists do. Most of them don't even know that such activists exist, frankly.