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2016 Postmortem

bvf

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12. This is only a guess:

Reply to grasswire (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 02:49 AM

Dec 2015

Alienating as many Sanders supporters as possible is the only way to prove the claim (and it's been made more than once) that Clinton can win without the votes of any of them.

Trouble is, proving it falls short and leads to the election of President Clown. (Pick one.)

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Why, since Hillary is so inevitable, don't her supporters fight Republicans? [View all] grasswire Dec 2015 OP

I have asked that question a thousand different ways, and got nothing. arcane1 Dec 2015 #1

It's a primary. Time will come when Hillary will go after trump yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #7

Indeed. Rather excellent ad from CTR: NuclearDem Dec 2015 #9

Thank you! Amazing how some miss some of this. yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #11

Hadn't seen that either. Thanks. tecelote Dec 2015 #22

People are perfectly capable of multitasking. NuclearDem Dec 2015 #2

Yep. It's primary season, with multiple viable Dem candidates. Orsino Dec 2015 #30

3rd way prefers taking down liberals jfern Dec 2015 #3

Well, they would miss us if we left...for good. nt artislife Dec 2015 #6

I think his words were "f*cking ret*ards". Betty Karlson Dec 2015 #21

You're close; he said "fucking retarded" about us. The "professional left" thing was Gibbs, not Rahm Jim Lane Dec 2015 #23

Thanks for the correction. n/t Betty Karlson Dec 2015 #24

Pretty sure every time we start a GE thread we get told to not count our chickens Godhumor Dec 2015 #4

Exactly. beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #5

It's called a primary election. NuclearDem Dec 2015 #8

Read my post again. beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #10

This is only a guess: bvf Dec 2015 #12

I'm told here every single day that Bernie is inevitable. So how come his supporters pnwmom Dec 2015 #13

Fighting Bernie? ConservativeDemocrat Dec 2015 #14

Not many Republicans on DU to fight Buzz cook Dec 2015 #15

The Third Way does not fight Republicans. Maedhros Dec 2015 #16

They aren't "fighting Bernie". They're claiming Bernie supporters are terrible people.... Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2015 #17

Sounds like someone is projecting... kjones Dec 2015 #18

Easy: because left-wingers don't talk to right-wingers any more. Donald Ian Rankin Dec 2015 #19

Some of us do, but websites aren't the place to do it... ConservativeDemocrat Dec 2015 #20

That's kind of hard to do when the ones doing all the work for the REpublicans are the Sanders... MohRokTah Dec 2015 #25

Maybe because the Sander's campaign is so busy stealing Clinton info... Walk away Dec 2015 #26

You obviously have not listed to-or ignored her many speeches. Go to her website. They are riversedge Dec 2015 #27

Hillary IS fighting Republican's RandySF Dec 2015 #28

She is. HRC is capable of doing both. It's called running for an election. Lil Missy Dec 2015 #29

The primaries don't make sense to you? Strange. NCTraveler Dec 2015 #31

In the Primary campaign candidates compete against their own party challengers. procon Dec 2015 #32

Well, if you feel equally strongly that Bernie will be the nominee why do Sanders book_worm Dec 2015 #33

Non sequitur, when Bernie supporters hawk online polls and other silly nonsense on DU tritsofme Dec 2015 #34