2016 Postmortem

Last edited Fri Dec 2, 2016, 02:19 AM - Edit history (2)

and should've won. If either sides followers decided to honor the parties nominee.
I'm sure by and large Sanders supporters voted for Hilary. However I still think there was a significant number of Sanders supporters that either didn't vote. Voted for a 3rd party candidate. Left the Presidential vote blank or even worse voted for Trump out of spite for Sanders losing the primary. Those folks as far as I'm concerned are not fit to be called progressive or liberals. They were only given lip service to progressive/liberal ideas. They demonstrated that they don't really care about issues. Hilary was a lot closer to Sanders than Trump was therefore not voting or voting for anyone other than the democratic nominee was a vote for Trump. They might as well be republicans. Finally the old phrase that Ralph Nader has been spouting for the last 20 years needs to be put to bed. God has never ran for President and never will. So to be real about it every Presidential election has been a choice between the lesser of two evils and everyone in the future will be too. For some the Hilary was not the candidate of their fantasies so now Trump will be the President of their reality and the rest of ours too. Thanks a lot!

If your a democrat you support the democratic you support the democratic nominee end of story.
Republicans have figured this out which is why regardless of what they think of their candidate they are still far less likely to break ranks than democrats are during elections an I'm sick of it.

As far as Clinton unfavorable ratings.Which was largely manufactured. That could've been defended if the Bernie or bust people decided to unite with and fight with us during the general election and on election day. Instead they chose to fight against us. Didn't really want to fight against republicans when it really mattered though.