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In reply to the discussion: A Bernie Sanders Supporter Confronted a Superdelegate — Then Leaked Their Private Conversation [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)We're coming out of a two-term democratic presidency. Winning a third term is pretty hard for any party to do. And our presumptive nominee has nothing to offer, except that she's not a Republican. That plays well with hardcore party loyalists, but you can't win an election with just that nugget of absolutists.
We're coming into a hard stretch, one that has almost never seen victory without the previous presdient dying in office, and we're offering, what, a stopgap? A candidate that has little to no appeal to the majority if Americans, beyond hteir slightly higher disgust for the presumptive Republican nominee? A candidate that has very openly, very ardently made it clear that she's completely willing, even eager, to discard over a third of her own party in an effort to make goody-goody with the very people she's running as a stopgap against?
Trump isn't Bob Dole, but Clinton is looking a lot like Mondale.