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2016 Postmortem

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9. Exactly. As if the repugs, Russians and Assange would stop just because it was Sanders

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 23, 2016, 02:30 PM

Dec 2016

They had plenty of oppo research on Sanders, and I'm sure if the Russians could get into Clinton's campaign email, the could get into Sanders', and they probably did.

Be interesting what was discussed between Weaver, Devine and Sanders about the DNC firewall breech.

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I think the reason why so many people suggest that Bernie could have beaten Trump [View all] mtnsnake Dec 2016 OP

No one can know the answer to either question... TCJ70 Dec 2016 #1

She only lost the EC. That is what matters and we know why. duffyduff Dec 2016 #17

That's an irrelevant question not a 'fairer' one. n/t PoliticAverse Dec 2016 #2

Irrelevant to what? Anyway, I'll edit it to change "fairer" to "better" mtnsnake Dec 2016 #4

Irrelevant because Trump was the actual nominee that the Democratic candidate had to defeat. n/t PoliticAverse Dec 2016 #6

If I recall the polls showed he could beat them all but then again we all know how the shenanigans onecaliberal Dec 2016 #3

There is another reason. HassleCat Dec 2016 #5

+1 YoungDemCA Dec 2016 #14

Could? Well that's obviously yes but nothing in life is guaranteed. NWCorona Dec 2016 #7

OR ... Could Bernie Beat COMEY, VOTER SUPPRESSION and RUSSIA !?!?!!? These kind of question suppose uponit7771 Dec 2016 #8

Exactly. As if the repugs, Russians and Assange would stop just because it was Sanders brush Dec 2016 #9

+1, this is watergate 2016 style but this time fuckin Nixon said break in on national TV !!! uponit7771 Dec 2016 #10

What research? I keep hearing about it, but show me the Repug playbook against Sanders. Exilednight Dec 2016 #11

Already been through it with you before. You know how to google for yourself. brush Dec 2016 #12

"Could Bernie have beaten any Republican candidate OTHER than Trump?" YoungDemCA Dec 2016 #13

Most people here, including me, thought Hillary was going to destroy Trump in the general election. m-lekktor Dec 2016 #15

He couldn't have beaten any Republican duffyduff Dec 2016 #16

We'll never know about any BlueMTexpat Dec 2016 #18