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bjo59

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2. It sure does go a number of ways.
Wed May 4, 2016, 05:35 PM
May 2016

There will be anti-Trump Republicans who are not particularly ideological and just love their investments and want to protect Wall Street - they will have no problem voting for Clinton. Then there are ideological anti-Trump Republicans (not just money firsters) who will never, ever vote for Clinton but will vote for Bernie. Then there are the Bernie supporters who will never vote for Clinton because to do so would be to vote for someone with a record is in direct opposition to everything they support and either won't vote, vote third party, or maybe even vote for Trump. And then there are the Bernie supporters who will vote for Clinton because they can't stomach the idea of a TV version "strongman" as president of the United States and would be able to stomach a more intense version of the status quo. It's going to be one hell of a mess if the two most disliked candidates end up running against each other and the ugly slug fest begins. Bernie Sanders is the one clean candidate who has never taken money from corporations or Wall Street and means exactly what he says. I wonder how many people who voted for HRC in the primaries, knowing what they know now, would do exactly the same if they could magically go back in time? All I can say is that it is going to be very, very interesting to see how things play out over the next few months and beyond. A lot of chickens coming home to roost.

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