2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: PURE SPECULATION: Could Bernie be staying in because he knows something we don't? [View all]JudyM
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just stay home if he were running vs Bernie. Hillary is an *icon* to so many, in a very negative way.
Truth is, this concept of which dem would bring out more "anti" voters from the right was the reason I first decided against Hillary. I could vividly picture people staying home rather than vote for anyone in the clown car, unless they got a chance to vote *against* her, and talk about that with their friends. And this is not sexist, her personality and entitlement is a huge turnoff to a lot of people, particularly on the right who also hate what Bill represents, or at least they've bought that.
Hillary came into this race already a lightning rod. Now she is even more so as a result of the curtain being lifted enough to see more of how she operates. Now it's more than just people having gotten to know and respect Bernie, it's that we are seeing the sad shallowness of her values, the corruption that seems to emanate from her actions like a Pigpen cloud (election filthiness, SOS deals-for-donations, national security cavalierness, etc.,) and the lack of focus on really making progressive progress.