28th March 2017, 3:58 PM
Quote:Sure, minorities would have voted for Sanders, but you'd probably have had lower turnout than Hillary got due to lower enthusiasm. And if his appeal among younger voters really was that huge of a help, wouldn't he have won the nomination? And beyond that,remember, Bernie particularly dominated low-turnout caucuses, and did worse in primaries which are easier to vote in. He had/has a diehard base of support, but it wasn't huge in terms of numbers, and the Republican attacks would have limited his mass appeal once in the general election.
I mean no offense, but the predictions that you made in this thread before the election were pretty much entirely wrong and so has been your post-election analysis.
Trump was eminently beatable and the Democrats greased every skid for the one candidate even more beatable than Trump. And your way of consoling yourself is to imagine a fantasy world in which Bernie Sanders would have done worse.
Quote:(Oh, and I am still quite convinced that the largest determining factor in Trump's victory was simply that Hillary is female.)Republicans spent eight years lying to themselves about why Obama won in 2008. You're doing exactly the same thing right now.
The largest determining factor in Trump's victory was that America is obviously done with 20th century politics and 20th century politicians, and everybody knew it before the election. Except the people who ignored the writing on the wall and lost.
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