2016 Postmortem

I am amused that your feelings are hurt but your analysis is simply wrong and sad. You were not there. One of my friends was a co-chair of the rules committee and that committee worked until 2AM Sunday morning to resolve issues with the Sanders people. When I left to go to the convention, Clinton delegates were warned to expect up to five floor/roll call votes due to Sanders' demands. Those roll calls were averted and even then the bernie supporters were not happy.

Again I was at the delegate breakfast where a number of young sanders supporters came in after winning all of the concessions and demanded that we condemn Hillary Clinton and overturn the will of the voters in our state by voting for Sanders. It was not a fun time. I was pleased to see the older sanders supporters apologized for the actions of these young sanders supporters. The labor people who were supporting Sanders were really upset.

As for painting Sanders supporters as BOB, I was there and there were a large number of Sanders supporters who fit this description. My daughter and I were yelled at by Sanders supporters at the convention (it was not a fun experience).

Sanders never had a chance of being the nominee. Sanders lacked support from Jewish, African American and Latino voters. Hillary Clinton had more than four times the lead in pledged delegates overs Sanders compared to the lead that President Obama had over Hillary Clinton in 2008. Sanders won less than 43% of the vote in the primaries and his only real victories were in non-democratic caucus states. The fact that so many concessions were made to a non-viable candidate was sad and wrong in my opinion.

Again you were not at the convention. I was. Your attempt at analysis is wrong but amusing