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

[markpkessinger]

45. Following the logic of your own post . . .

. . . it confirms my point. Moderate Democrats did indeed go for Hillary in those critical states she lost. Now, unless those moderate Democrats are going to go for Trump in 2020, I don't think those are the voters we need to worry about. (And if they are, then all this rhetoric about the need to unify around a particular candidate, which has been thrown mostly at progressives, has been sorely misdirected.) There may be a few independent/unaffiliated Trump voters who can be won back to the Democratic side, but as I said, most are too heavily emotionally invested in their vote for Trump to admit they made a mistake.

If we want to win, we should focus on the 18-45 demographic, among whom both Sanders and Warren (Sanders especially) have very strong support.