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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Faces Feisty Democratic Challenger [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)If anything boosted the third-party vote(and I say this as a person who spent much of the fall, when I wasn't going door-to-door or phone-banking for our ticket, made the case over and over again online for left support for HRC), it was the message that was repeatedly sent that Bernie's campaign was a total failure and a complete waste of time.
Bernie wasn't nominated, that is true.
But his ideas influenced our platform for the better.
Had we even run ads in the Upper Midwest reminding young people who worked for Sanders that what they did was positive and of value, that it made a difference, and that this party was a place where they could effectively work for what they wanted in the future, I think we'd have carried those states, and probably several other states where the margin was narrow.
What harm would there have been in trying that?