Clinton still 'disappointed' Sanders held off on endorsing her in 2016

[redqueen]

129. 12% of Bernie's supporters (all if not most were Repubs) voted for Trump.

Not sure how anyone would expect his withdrawal and encouraging words would have convinced them to vote for her. Doubt anything he could have said or did would have changed those voters' minds.

"Party seems to have had something to do with it — Sanders-Trump voters were much less likely than Sanders-Clinton or Sanders-third party voters to have been Democrats."

None of it is as conclusive as some want to believe.

"But then, it's not as simple as that. First off, this counterfactual world in which these voters didn't vote for Trump rests on a few ifs. If the Sanders-Trump voters in these three states had defected and if nothing else had happened to somehow take electoral votes from Clinton elsewhere and if this survey is correct ... then yes, Clinton would have won. (Some would also argue that if Clinton had campaigned more in the so-called "blue wall" states, she also could have picked up more votes.)"


This should end all this nonsense for good, but I don't expect it will. I guess some people must like fighting.


Although 12% of Bernie's supporters voted for Trump - ans a good portion od those WERE REPUBLICANS,

"While much was made of the so-called Bernie-or-bust phenomenon, the number of Sanders supporters who crossed party lines to vote for Trump in 2016 may not be that unusual. A 2010 study in Public Opinion Quarterly found that in the 2008 election 25 percent of those who voted for Clinton in the Democratic primary ended up voting for Republican John McCain, rather than Barack Obama, in the general election."