If Bernie Sanders gets the nomination, I will sigh

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59. Those polls aren't as meaningful as we might want.

Sanders has a lot of baggage. Democrats haven't used it against him for fear of alienating his base. Republicans won't be so reluctant. He looks strong now, but after a couple of months of being tarred as an anti-American commie, a deadbeat dad, a draft dodger, and a hypocritical empty suit who tried to send Vermont waste to parts of Texas with large Latinx communities? Let's see what happens to the polls then.

It won't matter that the labels I listed may be questionable, or that some could just as easily be applied to Trump. Universal health care was tried in Vermont, and it failed. It won't matter that the economy of Vermont cannot be compared with the economy of the US as a whole - it'll be used against him.

I'm like everyone else here. If Sanders is the nominee, he'll get my vote. That's not even up for debate. But like many others here, I don't think he's as electable as many of his core supporters seem to think.

Please read this, if you haven't already done so:

https://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044