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In reply to the discussion: Would you rather of had Bernie run for President as an independent?! [View all]brush
(53,740 posts)Which is why he got so far behind in delegate and super delegate count in the early, southern primaries (most voters didn't know who he was) thus his lost of the nomination.
I don't know how you can say he'd have gotten more support in the GE than Hillary when he didn't get more support in the primaries though.
That doesn't make sense, especially considering what happened in the GE. The repug vote suppression, vote hacking machine and other dirty tricks would've have been directed towards Sanders just as it was on Clinton, not to mention the massive Russians/Assange interference.
And I still think as an independent he would've been a blip only known by politically active progressives and liberals who listen to Thom Hartman, and of course in Vermont and New England.
Unfortunately 3rd party candidates in the US rarely gain much traction, billionaire Ross Perot being the rare exception, billionaire and being willing to spend his money being the key there.
I said unfortunately because I actually would like it if we had a parliamentary system with multiple partys say the Democratic Party, a farther left party, the Liberal Party, the Greens (ugh),and of course the repugs and teaparty types on the right.
The parties to the left of the repugs could form coalitions and win every time since we know the rights base is just around 30% of the voters no more of that electoral college crap swinging elections to repug cheaters.