It Is Time For A President Under 70

[archer75]

Could be. On the other hand, however, candidates often do not get the close examination during the primaries that they get between the national conventions and the general election. I think that Bernie's socialist sympathies would have become a hot issue after he had vanquished the other contenders and was standing alone.

There is no doubt that the Clinton machine and the Party leadership in general took it easy on Bernie because 1) they did not want to alienate his supporters for later on and 2) they were confident that the nominating convention was wired for Hillary anyway. The result, in other words, could have been for Bernie's fortunes to have gone the other way if he had won the nomination of the party.

All fair. I will add only that it's not like he was a secret child abuser. His socialist talk was why a lot of people liked him.

 

[mark46]

All fair. I will add only that it's not like he was a secret child abuser. His socialist talk was why a lot of people liked him.

and why he might get sup[port of 40% of Americans.

 

[Albion]

All fair. I will add only that it's not like he was a secret child abuser. His socialist talk was why a lot of people liked him.

That was why some liked him, but most of them were in his corner during the primary campaigns and he still did not win the nomination.

The key to winning the presidency was the Independents, as has been said already. I am confident that his past associations and all of that was not much known by most of them while the primaries were underway and also that most of these voters would not have rallied to him when it all inevitably became a big topic during the general election campaign.