2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThere is little doubt that Hillary will be the nominee...
but it is also likely that Bernie would be ahead now if her nomination wasn't viewed as a foregone conclusion at the outset of the process.

metroins
(2,550 posts)Bernie chose a bad campaign strategy by not focusing on the southern large delegate vote in the beginning.
This is why he lost so early on.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Bernie's campaign began with the problem of conservative Southern states dominating the early primaries, artificially creating momentum for the establishment candidate. In other words, the primary schedule was set up to favor the status-quo...and unfortunately (for the people), that strategy (combined with having the corporate media in the bag for Hillary) may well have succeeded.
Bernie did what he could in the South (and is quite obviously the better candidate for that region's vast majority of working class people), but it was too much to overcome.
CentralCoaster
(1,163 posts)Hillary had name recognition and a powerful set of friends going into this.
Neither of these things give us jobs or healthcare or a healthy environment.
Quite the opposite is true.
And, shes the weaker candidate against Trump.
Sanders for the win.