2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: In the end, Bernie Sanders was right, and what the Democrats need to learn from his campaign. [View all]TheBlackAdder
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The Democratic Party was to accept people, have them register at the last minute to onboard as many new people into the party, but many states actually wanted to play a closed-loop system and shut out people eagerly wanting to join the Democrats.
Clinton would go to one state and say how she was against Sanders' positions, go to a state that leaned his way and she co-opted his positions to neutralize any differences between candidates, then went to coal country and reversed her positions--selectively pandering to each state, as the primary rolled along.
The DNC reading of voter databases was debunked by me months ago, ad no data center on the planet protects information by firewall only. There are userid, session tokens and database record level security which is common practice, not even best practice protocols.
The constant presentation of superdelegates, to say Sanders will never win contributed.
I could go on with a whole bunch of other things, but it will probably drive a flag campaign against me.
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Too many people are still myopic in their views as to what happened, but suffice it to say, not selecting Tim Kaine sealed this election loss, as I just wrote on another OP. Had Sanders been onboarded, nothing would have prevented her win--nothing!
There would have been a lot of Independents, left-leaning Republicans, Never-Trumpers, and some Bernie or Busters.
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