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2016 Postmortem

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Merryland

(1,134 posts)
Sun May 22, 2016, 12:09 AM May 2016

Interesting editorial in the Wall Street Journal about the primary [View all]

As more polls show that Hillary Clinton could lose to Donald Trump, Democratic media and political elites have decided that the problem is—Bernie Sanders. The socialist warhorse has had his campaign fun, but now he and his supporters refuse to slink away quietly into Howard Dean obscurity. Doesn’t he know that his persistence is helping Republicans?

We’d humbly suggest that these Democrats are looking through the wrong end of the campaign telescope. Bernie’s continuing string of victories is the symptom of the political...

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/bernie-isnt-hillarys-problem-1463784149
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HRC is HRC's problem. nt antigop May 2016 #1
And ours until she is finally dispatched from this primary. nt silvershadow May 2016 #6
The problem is Hillary Clinton and her party boss buddies. Alex4Martinez May 2016 #2
The time for her to have done that with grace and dignity was when the wheels fell off the bus silvershadow May 2016 #7
Most Clinton supporters will never entertain such a thought. snowy owl May 2016 #3
more importantly, he gets Republicans to vote for him by *being a Democrat* MisterP May 2016 #4
Like something from Lewis Carroll isn't it? silvershadow May 2016 #8
This is a very important point. Obama did that too. Ignore his base and court the Republicans pdsimdars May 2016 #11
his rightie instincts (Rahm used him to destroy any IL Congresspeople who got too liberal) and his MisterP May 2016 #18
At some point, there might have been *something* that the WSJ editorial page said Orangepeel May 2016 #5
Surprise, surprise. The RW extremist WSJ editorial page supports Bernie Sanders. baldguy May 2016 #9
Amazing, isn't it? No matter how RW the source, the Bernistas COLGATE4 May 2016 #14
Funny how popular right-wing sources are around here oberliner May 2016 #10
Yea, you can't read the whole story at that link unless you are a subscriber so I don't know pdsimdars May 2016 #12
A "Trudge Up The Hill" candidate in an insurgent year. Waiting For Everyman May 2016 #13
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2016 #15
Christopher Ruddy of Newsmax and James Murdoch of Fox News are Clinton allies BernieforPres2016 May 2016 #16
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shocking that the WSJ thinks the Democratic Party is the problem bigtree May 2016 #19
The leading paragraphs and the conclusion paragraphs are accurate. The middle is propaganda. w4rma May 2016 #20
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