Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: It's true. Bernie hasn't always gotten along with all his colleagues in congress. [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)I'm aware that Hillary won the primary and went on to lose the GE. Which, yes, means that Bernie was "rejected" by the primary electorate last time, and Hillary was "rejected" by the GE electorate.
Honestly, even if I had been in a black hole the last 3 years, I still would have known all that. I'm not sure what you think that all implies about 2020. To me, the most salient take-away is that the "safe" centrist/establishment with the Iraq vote on her record lost the GE, even though every single pundit in the world thought she would win, and even though polls during early primary season showed her as being the most electable.
And now we have Biden, who is basically Hillary 2.0, same Iraq vote, same centrist pundits saying all the same things. A big difference, though, is that this time Bernie has a legitimate chance, which he never had in 2016.
I'm not trying to "distract" from the latest inane attack against Bernie because no voter is going to care that some people think Bernie is grumpy.
As to whether Dem primary voters care about the Iraq War, or NAFTA and trade, or Social Security, obviously some do and some don't. And some voters may not care about the votes themselves, but will still care because of the way those votes could play in the GE. Just because you don't care about the IWR doesn't mean nobody does.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided