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Cleita

(75,480 posts)
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 12:57 PM Jan 2016

Why Hillary must be President according to her cheer leaders.

Besides the commie bashing, another meme and false equivalency arising out of camp Hillary is that we need her because we don't want Republicans appointing Supreme Court judges. Well, it seems to me that Bernie is just as capable of making those appointments and his appointments won't be corporate centrists either.

This is another disingenuous word game that plants the idea in voters' minds that Bernie can't win the general election but Hillary can. Yet, Bernie has consistently won both his Congressional and Senatorial seats in Vermont, a state that mostly votes for Republicans in everything else. So it appears that Bernie can also win voters to his side that Hillary can't. So who really should be the nominee? It's the one who can get the most votes and that one is Bernie not Hillary. Also, I hear over and over again in real life Democrats telling me that they won't vote for Hillary if she's the candidate. They are sick of the lesser of two evils vote. So that even makes her voting block even less among Democrats too. No one says that about Bernie.

One bit of advice I have for all Bernistas across the country is to make sure the millenials are registered to vote. Contact the Democratic and other clubs that lean socialist or liberal on university and college campuses to make sure they have a program to register them to vote. Offer to set up tables in their student unions if they don't have a plan. It's the crucial votes for Bernie and we have to make sure they are ready to vote in the primaries. The millenials are overwhelming enthusiastic about Bernie.

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Why Hillary must be President according to her cheer leaders. (Original Post) Cleita Jan 2016 OP
That happened several times when I was phoning Nevada eridani Jan 2016 #1

eridani

(51,907 posts)
1. That happened several times when I was phoning Nevada
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 12:54 AM
Jan 2016

Got told that no way would they support Clinton--seemed more anti-Clinton than pro-Sanders.

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