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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders Will Win, Despite Rigged Debate Schedules, Skewed Polls, and Clinton's 'Inevitability' [View all]Android3.14
(5,402 posts)61. The logic is pretty sound
If Bernie represents your values more so than Clinton, then it is smart strategy to vote for him in the primaries. If he wins, he has as good, or even better, chances against the GOP nutballs as Clinton does, and we might have a freakin' awesome president.
If he loses in the primaries and Clinton is the nominee, then vote for Clinton in the general. We won't have as awesome a nominee and potential leader, but she still has a reasonable chance to beat the GOP.
Despite the mean spirit of The Swarm, many who currently support Clinton are kind thoughtful people who are just now realizing that a vote for Bernie is smart strategy and smart democracy.
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Sanders Will Win, Despite Rigged Debate Schedules, Skewed Polls, and Clinton's 'Inevitability' [View all]
Skinner
Dec 2015
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Or he's covering all his bases just in case. I suspect that a lot of Clinton supporters view
totodeinhere
Dec 2015
#52
There is an important force in politics that all of us that mock HA Goodman's writing forget about.
FSogol
Dec 2015
#3
Yeah, I support Sanders, but I think Goodman's glasses are too rose-colored
thesquanderer
Dec 2015
#7
The author should have picked a photograph that doesn't make Sanders look grumpy. nt
Agnosticsherbet
Dec 2015
#31
I am sure the Sanders campaign could provide one or two if given enough time.
Agnosticsherbet
Dec 2015
#34