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MrPurple

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2. Biden was just an example, my point wasn't about him
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 01:37 PM
Dec 2016

My point wasn't about Biden at all, but that too many people in here seem to blame the loss on Bernie supporters who were dissatisfied with Hillary. The issue wasn't the left, but all the people in the middle who bought into the narrative built around Hillary's email that she was corrupt and that Trump (ironically the most corrupt candidate in history) was a better choice.

I think that if Hillary had handled the email story differently when it started, she could have defused it a lot more. But, my contention was that the problem wasn't that Hillary wasn't progressive enough for the Bernie people. It doesn't need to be Biden, but another centrist Dem like Hillary, who didn't have her perceived baggage would have won.

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