Magnetron
Deep Under Groundhog
- Joined
- Feb 12, 2014
- Posts
- 4,089
No baggage? He isn't a Democrat and has no history of supporting Democratic candidates for anything. That matters to some worker Democrats who have to carry the on-the-ground burden of electing someone. He also is old, Jewish (but doesn't support Israel), a socialist, and has no record of accomplishments despite having been in Congress forever already. Name the last one with more than one of those bags to carry who won a presidential election. His campaign was 60 percent wishful thinking and 40 percent naivete. I do think his campaign was beneficial in that it moved some of the party positions to the left.
Those who wanted an Outsider in the White House that barely tipped the scales in Trump's favor would have been split between Sanders and Trump. Maybe not 50/50, but again ...... Trump barely won a few key states.
Bernie would have focused on issues rather than negative campaigning.
Let's just face reality. Hillary tried to skate by on attacking Trump and disconnected herself from the Undecided.