Where was the sympathy for Bush voters

[karynnj]

77. I disagree

You can not ignore that he was most often with the Black Caucus in the House on votes and that he was willing to protest in the streets of Chicago in the late 1960s for Civil Rights and was arrested. on women's rights. he scored 100% from NOW - (2007/2008) https://votesmart.org/interest-group/1475/rating/4275?p=2&of=#.WGfj0_krI54 ) and Naral (2015) http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/assets/download-files/2015-congressional-record.pdf These were the ones found by google.

I have seen NO analysis that has indicated that anyone who would have come out to vote for HRC in the rust belt did not vote or voted for Trump because of anything Sanders did. He was no tougher on her than Clinton and Edwards were on Obama. Imagine that Obama would have lost in 2008 in the general election, I assume that many might have cited her comments that she and McCain were ready for a 3 am call and he wasn't or that he was just inspiring words. BOTH of those are tougher than anything that Sanders said and they were said by a powerful politician and repeated by a former President!

In any election, you will find that some charges made in the primaries resurface in the general election. It would be silly to argue that Dean calling Kerry a flip flopper (bringing giant posters of flip flops out in the primaries) led to Kerry's close lose in 2004. (It incidentally is a very common charge against a legislator when a governor runs) In 1998, it was AL Gore who first brought up Willie Horton against Dukakis.

In fact, the main things Trump used against Clinton were things Bernie Sanders did not make issues. He famously dismissed that anyone should speak of her "damned emails" and he never called her untrustworthy or dishonest. She actually shifted to many of his positions. He did point out that she had spoken well of TPP and - in fact - as the core of her shift to Asia, it was in reality, what she could have called one of her strongest State Department accomplishments. That issue - and the Goldman/Saks speeches were the ONLY common charges that I heard from both Sanders and Trump. Trump further was able to use the purported leaks of some Goldman/Saks speeches to make her sound like her shift on TPP was political and not honest.

HRC ran a close election -- and she lost. Like any candidate, there were errors she made and post mortems that try to explain the result will (painfully) focus on them and ignore any flaws of the winner.