2016 Postmortem

IMO, Sanders didn't have adequate media coverage for people to know where he was coming from until well after Super Tuesday. That created a huge deficit. I say this as someone who spent a ton of time talking to dem voters in one of those Super Tuesday states. They liked him but they knew Clinton better so they voted for her. Obviously this wasn't everyone, but it was a massive issue in the early states because of his lack of media attention (don't even get me started on why that was the case!). Had he done better in Super Tuesday states, he very likely would've won the primary, if you look at the numbers. There are other circumstances that kept him from winning that I also won't address because of the volatility here.

So returning to your point, if he'd made less of an issue about what distinguished him from Clinton, which was primarily the economic issues, you think he would've done better. You might be right, I'm just not sure.