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

[thesquanderer]

212. Yet there are so many more significant things that contributed to her loss.

3+ years later, I'm not sure where this on-going scapegoating helps us. Sanders is unlikely to get the nomination, but if he does, I'd hope we'd all support him as much as we presumably would any other Dem candidate.

Off-hand, here are reasons I'd say HRC lost to Trump...

…russian hacking/interference in the campaign

…email scandal (where even though she was found to have done nothing illegal, it still got a lot of air time, and still ended up concluding that she had handled things poorly, playing into the “poor judgment” attack)

…comey bringing emails back to the forefront the week before the election

…uninspired VP choice (he may have well been an excellent VP, but I doubt he got her so much as a single additional state, and his lackluster debate performance didn't help)

…not spending enough time and resources in the rust belt (and/or Trump putting in more)

...people who would never vote for a woman (misogyny)

…people who would vote for a woman, but would never vote for Hillary (baggage/high negatives)

…Sanders' primary campaign that emphasized her wall street/establishment ties

…the fact that she really *was* very much an establishment candidate, in a year where many people of both parties (or neither) were more drawn to outsiders

…negative ads/accusations about Sanders in the primaries that made it harder to capture maximum support from Sanders voters (I remember the one about supporting the auto bailout in particular)

...and okay, he could have endorsed her sooner.

In the big picture, that last one is about the least significant, IMO.

Meanwhile, the number of Sanders supporters who did NOT vote for Hillary ended up being not that different from the number of 2008 Hillary supporters who did NOT vote for Obama.