Who has sparked the imagination of the left, opened a door thought closed forever. He also, in my opinion, cannot win the presidency--he has a much better shot at the nomination. If Sanders wins the nomination, Republicans would have to fuck up much worse than Sarah Palin to lose. He also has to deal with the political process as it is and not how he thinks it should be. Obama has a hell of a time getting shit done. Sanders would have a much worse time dealing with a system that is broken in so many places. Clinton has vast amounts of experience with this system, and she knows how to negotiate it. She has contacts on every level of politics, including a round understanding of our foreign policy. She was trying to 'fix' healthcare over 20 years ago and was roundly rejected because of it. She's tough. She's a surviver in very dangerous political waters. That fact that she's a woman in the U.S. --a county not any more excited about women in politics, and a great deal less excited than some--is simply gravy, and precedent.
We are dealing (underneath every political opinion) with unstated Racism and sexism. People want to pretend politics are post-racial, post-sexism, when we are facing the biggest crisis challenging women's rights since Roe, and young black men are being shot in the street.
The ACA for instance is not understood, and roundly hated by the right/libertarians--who make up around half the vote. Look at RW political sights, and using the hatred and misinformation about Obama and Clinton they will be voting against them, if not for, any actual candidate.
So while Sanders fits closer to my personal political nirvana, and he's by no means radical enough when it gets right down to it, at this point I don't believe he can deliver what he's talking about. I believe Clinton can.
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