2016 Postmortem

HRC's campaign to have superdelegates declare early and declare often led to over 400 superdelegates putting their thumbs on the scale before a single primary/caucus vote was cast.

1. Sure we know now that he didn't receive a majority of Jewish, African-American, and latino votes but that's an after the fact event. We didn't know how minorities would react to Bernie until he ran and articulated his national vision. Notably, his support among POC kept rising throughout the primaries. Even Ta Nehisi Coates voted for him after all was said and done. Thank you, TNC.

2. You're misrepresenting what Bernie said. He ran as a Democrat, in part, for media and financial access, not that he ran at all.

3. The famous oppo research that was seen and supposedly devastating, but the reporter provides no details except to say, "trust me". LOL. Just like Hillary, Trump would have had to deal with backlash had he gone too negative against Bernie. People like Bernie.

But as usual, I will admit that I do not have a crystal ball to see the alternative reality. Bernie didn't win the primary and Hillary didn't win the election. That's all we know for sure.