Bernie Sanders best-case EV scenario: 112 Sanders - 423 any Republican

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17. Bernie's fundraising style is a huge problem

The GOP's current frontrunner is a billionaire who's gone bankrupt four times. The rest of the candidates are backed by Koch money and dark money. The world hasn't changed; if he really wants to be president Bernie Sanders will have to match GOP spending dollar-for-dollar, which means SuperPACs, 529s and all the rest of the seamy underside of financing a large-scale political campaign. And that's a massive problem for Sanders. If he refuses megadonor money he gets buried in an avalanche of negative ads and loses the election. If he accepts it he gets branded as a flip-flopper and loses the election.

One of Clinton's advantages is Boy who Cried Wolf Syndrome: the GOP has heaped so much shit on the Clintons, the general population is all "yeah, right motherfucker; that was proven to be bullshit the last six times you said it."

The problem with the "trust" talking point Sanders supporters like to use is, people are more likely to trust a used-car salesman than a politician. If trustworthiness was a requisite for electing politicians, Congress would be empty.