2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders did NOT ... NOT say ditch identity politics !!! [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)If he hadn't over-used his snide "Perfesser" schtick, rather like a Mel Blanc cartoon character, and half-way prepared for debate, he would have done better than he did on that end, too. A candidate with a sharp knife-like wit could have been her undoing.
Massachusetts has a sense of decency. That "Pocahontas" shit gained a bit of traction, but then when Scott's Bro Brigade started tomahawk chopping and using misogynistic commentaries, Bay Staters recoiled.
You think that would have been the case in the rust belt? They would have eaten her for LUNCH. "Pocahontas" would have been a FEATURE, not a bug.
People have this MISTAKEN idea that Warren sailed to victory. She did not. It was a hard fought battle and it was all hands on deck to make it happen. I drove over a HUNDRED people to the polls that day.
She hobbled to victory, held up by the MOST OUT-OF-STATE MONEY ever spent on a MA Senate campaign. Again--EVER spent. It wasn't some home-grown, truth-will-set-you-free exercise. It was cash, cash and more cash--and a shitload of outta towners coming in and organizing. She didn't do that on her own.
Facts matter. She would have been crushed, not won almost two million more votes than that Orange Anus "winner."