Where was the sympathy for Bush voters

[karynnj]

103. Reread your own divisive post

In short, you are blaming Bernie because the Reagan Democrats deserted HRC. You are fixated on an idea that Bernie supporters gave the election to Trump. Bill Clinton himself says the campaign did not do enough to reach those people.

I absolutely disagree. Consider that Bernie won two groups of people in the primary - Democrats who prefered him to Clinton AND many people he brought in who were libertarians, people who never voted or Republicans who preferred him over their choice. When HRC won, she got the Democrats who had preferred Sanders and Sanders and his supporters worked hard to win some of the latter group, who likely would not have voted for HRC if there had been no primary. There were people that Bernie pulled away from Trump in NH in the primaries -- and these were people that Sanders tried to win for HRC in the general election.

Sanders himself made the case you are making here -- as did many of his ardent supporters - against Trump.

As to the primary it was repeatedly noted during the primary how polite it was vs the Republican primary where all 17 called each other names and made accusations. As to prolonged, I would ask -- what about 2008. Bernie was not technically eliminated from winning the most pledged delegates until California voted. Hillary conceded a few days after all the primaries were over. She argued the tough primary made Obama tougher. Not to mention, you still have not identified anything where Bernie said that TRUMP was better on a key issue as she did in crediting that she and McCain were ready for the 3 am call. That primary fight was FAR nastier than 2016.

It wasn't Bernie's team who argued that "Hillary was not the person in a picture" used by her team ---- when it fact it was! As favored as she was, her team was out smearing Bernie's choice of where to announce - rather uncontroversially in a beautiful city park in his home town where he had been mayor - as a sign that he did not care enough about POC. These were all early things - so if the primary got negative, HRC's team can be said to have started it.