Perspective from a Sanders supporter: Last night makes unity less painful

[Rose Siding]

From ?@AlGiordano:

Everybody, read this. A Sanders supporter just emailed it to me. Will give you perspective.

That seems genuine to me. Then there's this for fun:

AlGiordano
?@AlGiordano AlGiordano Retweeted Mark Herman
Here is a stat: 85 percent of Sanders voters tell pollsters they'll vote for Clinton in November.

chris amundsen
?@chris_amundsen
@AlGiordano the other 15% all seem to have Twitter accounts...

AlGiordano
?@AlGiordano AlGiordano Retweeted chris amundsen
Yup. And Daily Kos. And Reddit. And Democratic Underground. And Facebook. But they really need to get out more.

[DemonGoddess]

1. K&R!

I have an interesting household as far as political composition

You have the hubs, a staunch R
You have the oldest son, a Dem who supported Sanders
You have the 2 women, my daughter and I, who enthusiastically support Hillary

All FOUR of us are voting for Hillary in November.

Hubs says Trump is not acceptable in any way, shape or form.
Oldest says that Sanders lost in March, and is just embarrassing himself now.

[Her Sister]

3. Thanks for voting yesterday!

Delegates pretty split! He cut into her 300 lead by 10 or so only! She did not advertise or campaigned there!:

[DemonGoddess]

5. She campaigned

She campaigned, Pres Clinton campaigned, her state surrogates campaigned. She didn't spend any ad money, saving it for the general.

Plus, even though she lost the state, she still won Marion and Lake counties. Those are the DIVERSE counties in a very white, very RED state.

[Her Sister]

9. Yes that's great!

Meant not personally! I see what you mean!

[Cha]

10. Hehe.. good to know! Love that the Diverse counties are out there for her.

[BlueMTexpat]

15. Hillary actually achieved her

538 target goal for IN delegates! http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/delegate-targets/democrats/

[Her Sister]

16. Yes I saw that! 39 delegates! and her percentage is strong & over her target

while BS is under as he's been all along!

[BlueMTexpat]

18. That wonderful 538 delegate chart

has really helped with the blood pressure throughout these seemingly interminable primaries!

[Cha]

4. I bet you're happy about that! My son will be voting for Hillary, too.

We don't talk politics now.. I miss that.. we were on the same page for so long and then BS fever hit the scene.

I can't wait until we're all united against trump.

[DemonGoddess]

7. EXTREMELY happy about it, yes

[BlueMTexpat]

17. My two birth sons

are split. The older son, like me, supports Hillary (early on, he was a MOM supporter). The younger son likes Sanders. Neither has voted in the primaries yet, but will in June. Both will support Hillary in the GE.

As for the "steps," two sons like Bernie mainly because their kids (millennial "grands&quot do, our daughter and hers are staunch Hillary supporters, and the fourth step is Trans who likes Bernie right now, but is more Libertarian than anything else and HATES the GOP with a passion.

My husband and I are firmly in Hillary's corner and have been since the beginning. Every other family member (including in-laws) will support Hillary in the GE, no matter who they support now.

Every single voter in our family understands exactly what is at stake.

[Rose Siding]

6. There's a house in my neighborhood that has a Sanders sign on a fence to the driveway

The day after our NY win, I drove by and there was a Hillary sign up right next to it.

It made an impact on me.

Glad your family can agree. It would be rough otherwise. The best I'll get out of my dad is that he won't vote Trump.

[DemonGoddess]

8. We've all had our differences politically

you should have heard us all ganging up on hubs in 2012 about Romney. It got quite tense.

[Hortensis]

11. All great. We should be seeing more of this from that 85%.

[Rose Siding]

12. A bunch of them never did talk smack about Hillary

My daughter and her wife preferred BS but always made sure to note that Hillary would be great too.

BS even had a surrogate (one, that I know about) that didn't embarrass him. Sarah Silverman said she liked Hillary but loved Bernie, or something like that.

So I wouldn't look for any great big unity gesture from those types of BSers. They were ready to swing to Hillary from the get.

[Hortensis]

13. Umhm. It's been clear ever since the exit polls

way back when primary voting started, when 80% of Bernie voters said that they were glad to have Hillary as their second choice and that they respected her ("second choice" and "respect" asked by the pollster). That 80% was only the ones glad to have her as their backup.

[Her Sister]

2. KnR

[SunSeeker]

14. K & R

[Tarheel_Dem]

19. DudetteBros like Susan Sarandon haven't helped BS. Unbridled anger makes for good movies, but....

not when you're trying to attract ALL of us to your nominee. I'll be so glad when all the Bros have gone away.

[Her Sister]

20. More from Al Giordano and the BS supporters

AlGiordano ?@AlGiordano 8h8 hours ago
I can't even keep up with the emails from Bernie supporters asking me if there is room for them in the tent. Yes, yes, so much yes.
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@AlGiordano some of my Bernie friends and family. Jumped on the Hillary train. Because of Cruz announcement. They said it changed the game
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Spifffan ?@spifffan 7h7 hours ago
@soulsister27 @AlGiordano That's awesome! We need to be welcoming (and not gloating). #gladtheyrewithher