2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Tens of thousands to leave Democratic party the day after their primaries in protest [View all]pinebox
(5,761 posts)See that is the difference between our camp and yours.
The middle class under Obama has gotten WORSE so if you want to invoke that train of thought into things I'll throw that fact at you.
It doesn't matter of they are actual Democrats or not and your camp keeps throwing it out there like it's a beam from a lighthouse. You can't win the White House on just the backing of Democrats. You NEED the Indy vote in order to win and the nominee is Trump, want to take a guess who gets that Indy vote? It's not Hillary. Hello perfect storm.
Myself, I am not a Dem but an Indy who switched to Dem in order to caucus for Bernie, sorry but that doesn't make my opinion worth any less than your own no matter how much you wish or want to believe. My vote is just as strong and as meaningful as yours.
Hillary is winning the old fashioned way *for now* but the rest of the map looks good for Bernie. If she is the nominee, Dems will lose and all polls show that.