Argument for Bernie Sanders

[thesquanderer]

12. re: "That group is a small fraction of the electorate"

We don't know that! That's the point of my post #8 and the 0riginal article I was referencing.

re: "And there's zero evidence that Sanders would have done better" {in getting the votes where we needed them}.

The evidence may not be conclusive, but it ain't zero either. As has been posted here recently, we lost MI/WI/PA by less than the number of Sanders supporters who voted for someone else in those states (presumably consisting mostly of non-Dems... the independents, the anti-establishment types). I think we still would have gotten the Dem vote we got (do you really think lots of Hillary voters would have taken Trump or some other candidate over Sanders?), but we also would have gotten those "defectors." So yeah, we'll never know for sure, but the evidence is not zero, when you look at the numbers and how the different groups of people voted.