2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: US Uncut: How 107 Superdelegates Robbed 11 Million Democratic Voters [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,835 posts)... for the last month was that if he won BIG in California, he would have a viable argument to take to the SDs, and could convince them to flip to his camp. The same was said of the remaining states - that a BIG win would convince the SDs that Bernie had the "momentum" in the last days of the primary contests.
Ergo, the media announcing that HRC had clinched the nomination should have had no bearing on Bernie voters, who already knew that Bernie's ONLY shot at the nomination would be via flipping the SDs on the basis of YUGE wins in California and the remaining contests. In fact, it should have led them to get out and vote for him to ensure his numbers were as high as possible.
The fact that Bernie lost California by double-digits leads to the obvious conclusion that the BS votes were never there in the first place.
It had long been predicted that Hillary would clinch the nomination by July 7th, and the fact that the media called it the night before wasn't a surprise to anyone paying attention.
If you want to hold yourself out as revolutionists who are willing to do whatever necessary to "take back the country", it seems rather silly to now claim that those supporting "the Revolution" stayed home and didn't vote because it was too much trouble to do so, and whining about defeat after-the-fact was simply the more convenient option.
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