Comment on Why do leftist blame the Democratic for sabotaging Bernie Sanders?

• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  …because fewer people voted for him than for Hillary?

  Not quite sure what kind of answer you’re fishing for here.

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  • ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think what they are trying to ask is why did all the DNC undermining still stop people from voting Bernie. The point being that it came off that he was so popular that even DNC with all their undermining shouldn’t have gotten in the way of him winning the nomination.

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    • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I feel like we’ve said this to OP already too, but:

      …it came off that he was so popular…

      However it may have come off, not enough people voted for him to win him the primary. He wasn’t that popular. For reasons mentioned elsewhere.

      It’s possible some people who favored Sanders over Hillary voted for Hillary in the primary anyway fearing that she was more likely to win the primary and not wanting to chance unintentionally boosting the chances of someone other than Hillary or Sanders getting the nomination. I don’t know of any polls or anything that might have indicated that was or wasn’t the case. But that still means people didn’t vote enough for Bernie.

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