re: #178 HappyWarrior

Exactly. And I’ll say it again but Sanders did terrible among key elements of the Dem base. I mean we’re talking nearly Republican numbers among African-American voters for one and it wasn’t much better with Hispanics. You don’t win a primary with white progressives alone. Sanders didn’t build a coalition. They want to rag on Clinton for her mistakes but they never ever want to consider Sanders made some mistakes as well.

I still consider one of the greatest “WTF!” moments for the Sanders campaign was when they put Jane Sanders in front of the cameras to declare that the era of the Obama Coalition had passed. Bernie’s downplaying and eventual dismissal of the South was bad enough, but the coalition that put a black man in the White House twice with huge margins being told they were no longer politically relevant was a major political blunder.