It is beyond strange that people think 1972 is a better predictor of 2020 than 2016

[Hav]

21. Maybe you have a point on 1972

but why do people, on DU of all places, pretend that Hillary did so badly? It was down to a system that bizarrly values the votes of the people in some states higher than of those living in other states. She won the damn election by 3 million votes despite all that was thrown against her. In a democratic system she wins. In another scenario without Comey, people voting for Stein out of spite and foreign interference she wins as well. Running candidates like Hillary (who by the way was the by far most qualified candidate in most of our lifetimes) works under normal circumstances.

And please just stop with this bs of "the party's insistance on going with an establishment favorite". First, Hillary won the nomination because a majority of actual Democrats wanted her to be their candidate. The party leadership didn't go against the wish of the voters. Secondly, of course Hillary was well liked in the party. She was a part of it for decades, built a network and friendships over all these years. You need to work with other people to get things done.