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Primaries aren't general elections.
Doing well in primaries is not an indication of general election performance. Those who do very well in presidential primaries often lose the general election.
And it should be noted that Clinton is beating Sanders by a popular vote landslide -- she is currently leading by 14 points.
The Sanders fans refuse to acknowledge that they are losing. Their candidate is not as popular among Democrats as is Clinton.
Doing well in primaries is not an indication of general election performance. Those who do very well in presidential primaries often lose the general election.
And it should be noted that Clinton is beating Sanders by a popular vote landslide -- she is currently leading by 14 points.
The Sanders fans refuse to acknowledge that they are losing. Their candidate is not as popular among Democrats as is Clinton.
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As was noted several times, she is better at campaign logistics and winning over voters who should be inclined to vote against her party than you would like to believe.
Essentially, they were tied for the popular vote in the primaries. And the fact that Obama barely squeaked out a primary victory did not prevent him from winning an electoral vote landslide, which goes against your earlier assertion about primary margins being relevant to general election results.
And yet he is losing by a landslide.
Essentially, they were tied for the popular vote in the primaries. And the fact that Obama barely squeaked out a primary victory did not prevent him from winning an electoral vote landslide, which goes against your earlier assertion about primary margins being relevant to general election results.
And yet he is losing by a landslide.
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Essentially, they were tied for the popular vote in the primaries. And the fact that Obama barely squeaked out a primary victory did not prevent him from winning an electoral vote landslide, which goes against your earlier assertion about primary margins being relevant to general election results.
Also, I'm not saying the primary is relevant. I just don't see how the Senate is either.
And Clinton's favourables are still in the tank.
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You can look at a map to see how she won in Republican districts. Apparently, GOP voters didn't hate her enough to bring down her campaign.
Er, you just claimed a few minutes ago that "the evidence from Presidential primaries isn't good." Sorry that your argument proved to be bogus.
And yet Sanders still can't win over a majority of Democrats. Maybe he's not that impressive, after all.
It is typical for relatively unknown contenders to have higher favorables, as the electorate has yet to learn about what's wrong with them. John Kasich had the highest favorable among the GOP nominees, yet he didn't attract many votes.
If Sanders was the nominee, he would be villified as a tax-hiking socialist and his favorables would sink like a stone. Clinton has been attacked for more than two decades; Sanders hasn't received much attention, but he would if he was running for president.
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Oh and BTW you forgot the bit about Sanders' proposals being pie in the sky, and rainbows and unicorns.
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I have yet to meet anybody who likes Hillary. The more she spends the more the point is made that she is a representative of who most despise.
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A little OTT but I like it.
Many Bernie Sanders activists and supporters are understandably disgusted by the contemptuous mistreatment they and their candidate have received from the corporate-Clintonite Democratic Party and its numerous media allies. The examples of this disrespect and abuse include:
The discourteous rapid-fire inquisition that the New York Daily News editorial board conducted with Sanders and then released as an interview transcript prior to the New York Democratic presidential primary last April.
Hillary Clinton telling MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough that the Daily News grilling “raise[d] a lot of questions” about Sanders’ qualification for the presidency.
Bill Clinton in New Hampshire calling Sanders and his team “hermetically sealed” purists, hypocrites, and thieves and mocking Sanders as “the champion of all things small and the enemy of all things big.”
Hillary’s good friend the blood-soaked mass murderer Madeline Albright telling female voters there was a “special place in Hell” for them if they backed Bernie.
The fake-progressive feminist icon Gloria Steinem’s curious claim that young women were voting for Sanders because “when you’re [a] young [woman], you’re thinking ‘where are the boys?’ The boys are with Bernie.”
Feel the Hate
Many Bernie Sanders activists and supporters are understandably disgusted by the contemptuous mistreatment they and their candidate have received from the corporate-Clintonite Democratic Party and its numerous media allies. The examples of this disrespect and abuse include:
The discourteous rapid-fire inquisition that the New York Daily News editorial board conducted with Sanders and then released as an interview transcript prior to the New York Democratic presidential primary last April.
Hillary Clinton telling MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough that the Daily News grilling “raise[d] a lot of questions” about Sanders’ qualification for the presidency.
Bill Clinton in New Hampshire calling Sanders and his team “hermetically sealed” purists, hypocrites, and thieves and mocking Sanders as “the champion of all things small and the enemy of all things big.”
Hillary’s good friend the blood-soaked mass murderer Madeline Albright telling female voters there was a “special place in Hell” for them if they backed Bernie.
The fake-progressive feminist icon Gloria Steinem’s curious claim that young women were voting for Sanders because “when you’re [a] young [woman], you’re thinking ‘where are the boys?’ The boys are with Bernie.”
Feel the Hate
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