Bernie Sanders voters helped Trump become President

[GaryCnf]

407. Trust me, you do not want to discuss facts.

And, as is usual when you are confronted, you will not discuss them here.

The statement that 25% of Clinton 2008 primary voters crossed over and voted for McCain is not only stated in the source article for the OP, the source article cites the study upon which it is based. IF the article lacks credibility on that score, it lacks credibility on the claim that 12% of Sanders 2016 primary voters crossed over and voted for Trump.

If we are to take the article as factual and based upon sound research, pointing out this fact has nothing to do with "whataboutism" and everything to do with whether the 12% of Sanders voters supposedly crossing over to vote for Trump is "proof" that Sanders' primary campaign hurt Clinton in the general election or, as another poster pointed out, it is "proof" that Sanders' 2016 primary voters displayed a far greater loyalty to the Democratic Party in the general election than did Clinton's 2008 primary voters.

However, neither the self-righteousness of those touting this article as proof for their "Blame Bernie" obsession, nor the above-average/HC2008 loyalty to the Democratic Party of Sanders supporters, is what I consider the most revealing aspect of this study. It is the exceptionally high number of NEW voters Sanders brought to the Party. While I see some consider this a negative, the fact is that a huge percentage of Sanders' supporters either only slightly leaned toward the Democratic Party or had never before considered themselves as Democrats AND STILL they came out and voted in a Democratic primary for likely the first time in their lives AND only 12% of them voted Republican even after Sanders was defeated. CONTRARY TO WHAT SOME claimed during the primaries, Sanders brought NEW BLOOD to the party during the primaries and most of them stayed with us during the general election.

Now you can go back to Comey, and Russia, voter suppression, or, heck, maybe even the campaign (btw, ZERO goes on Clinton. Candidates don't run campaigns and she did not make a single significant personal miscue during the entire GE), for explanations for 2016, but the "but Berrrrrrrrrinie" ticket don't sell to anyone without an agenda.