OP dismisses something like 68% of all voters to fantasize about how well Sanders could do with a white male electorate?

"Sanders wins the real American voters."

It's amazing. Sometimes this place sounds like a Trump rally!

That's crazy talk...

African Americans, women, gays, Asian Americans, Native Americans, progressive whites — you know, what America looks like.

It doesn't work anymore just to win white votes. It took them a while to grasp that.

Like where have they been? The Obama coalition, those demographic segments I mentioned above, won in '08 and '12 yet were ignored in the early southern primaries.

Perhaps Bernie should demand his money back from Weaver and Devine for malpractice.

And I will be part of the minority of my demographic in voting for her in November. And this is a problem how...?

And kudos to you Brush.

how important it is to the country for us all to vote blue no matter who.

Here is another article noting that if California was mostly white and male, Hillary would have no chance whatsoever.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-politics-trump-sanders-20160403-story.html

But among blue-collar voters, she’s beating Sanders by 6 points because so many of those voters here are Latinos and women, two groups with which Clinton has relationships dating to her husband’s 1992 campaign.

Among Latinos making less than $50,000, for example, Clinton won, 55% to 33%. Wealthier Latinos were split between the candidates. (Their numbers are too small to measure separately, but lower-income African American and Asian American voters sided with Latinos; taken together, lower-income minority voters backed Clinton by 15 points while wealthier minority voters were split.)

Had the state’s working-class voters been mostly white, as they are in other states, the results would have been different. The poll found Clinton lost to Sanders by 12 points among white voters earning less than $50,000 annually.

When did you wake up to that realization? LOL.

Hopefully as some folks (FINALLY) wake up to the reality that they have been ignoring for the last 30 years, some desperately needed perspective will start to seep in.

Hey, I can dream, can't I??

Now we're supposed to discount the votes of women, blacks, Latinos and probably every other demographic that voted for Hillary. That's what some so called Democrats/Liberals/Progressives have gone to in their Sanders support.

The epitaph of his campaign is that the Sanders campaign and his supporters only seem to have anger, harassment and bullying in their arsenal of campaign tactics. They don't have the ability to reach out and do the soft convince at all.

They are angry at all the Demographic groups who don't support Bernie and have been from the moment the dynamic became apparent. They never reached out they were just angry and nasty towards us. This OP is the latest example.

lolz

what I've known for several months now.

Guess you are missing those days.

What a nerve. Daring to have a voice...

did not yield a huge turnout and the fabled independents didn't bother to register in time cuz they are too special to follow the rules that have been in force for decades

The right stuff period. He is a dreamer for sure...A leader, not so much. Let's see if he is a man of character now...will he bond finally with the Democratic Party and bring in his followers or go pout in Vermont?

Women and minorities don't count either.

Because we all know that Bernie could easily win the General election without getting the female or the minority vote.

wonder which way will that go? gotta wonder.

- Rush Limbaugh, 2008

Truly disappointing. This OP is almost as bad as Stockholm Syndrome.

I've been visiting this site for years, starting with the 2008 primary season. I've often included it in my website visits during elections to get a sense of candidates and saw no reason to jump into the fray until the Vatican thing because of how concerning it was to me. Though I'll say, the Stockholm Syndrome things almost got me to join as well since that was pretty egregious, as were all the defenses of it.

Not sure what you're implying, but the admins are more than capable of knowing who I am (and who I'm not) by my email address. Feel free to ask them if I'm a real person and not a sock.

I had no idea the Confederacy was this large. How did they lose the war?

Maryland is on the cusp, so to speak, so maybe it IS part of the "Deep South." Funny, I don't have a Southern accent!

WTF, dudes. They lost me.

Up until that point I was undecided..then that happened. I kept an open mind, but I had a hard time with that, especially after some people were murdered at a PP. I decided, and never looked back. Funny thing, my hubby was for her right from the get go...that silly white man

Parenthood. That he would publicly belittle any part of such an important and beloved insitituion over no more than sour grapes was really telling to me.

A bit petty to me.

a "card" to play is utter crap. We should all, as Dems, be big enough to acknowledge her advocacy. But people here had to pretend SBS had a better record. I had to wonder about their integrity.

therefore only our votes are the rightful votes.

(this is the underlying message of the OP)

cry from someone who got along pretending to be progressive for a long time.
Now they know they are not.

What I read was we are more important than you and our votes more important. You know, because white male.

This middle aged, southern man finds it disgusting.

Look the other way at this crap and you are part of the problem here.

If only voting was limited to white males? Amirite?

to republicans.

too bad.

Hillary would be losing!

You kind of want people other than white straight cis guys to vote for your revolution.

internet privacy, because priorities.

Too bad for them!

Are you sure you're on the right website?

Free republic has many members that think like you

Saved by the base voters of the democratic party again!!!

Great job yall!!!

We Got the Power!

Damn.

Without the voter disenfranchisement in Arizona, & NY, without local groups purging voter rolls and without voters being mysteriously switched from D to unaffiliated...


Without all that, Hillary would not have stood a snowballs chance in hell.

Just going to ignore it? Noted.

You guys can't be real with these constant excuses every time Sanders loses.

I mean how did you really expect him to win the nomination? He's only been in the party for 9 months, hasn't passed on any of the millions he's raised to down-ticket dems, and it's become increasingly obvious that he only joined the party to use it for the national recognition he couldn't get as an independent.

And btw, he's covered his you know what by re-upping as an independent for his upcoming senate run in 2018, so did he ever do anything but borrow the (D) to put by his name but for convenience?

But she voted AGAINST banning cluster bombs... She voted FOR the IWR.

She is so clearly compromised that I will never vote for her. So be careful when you say "women" are on her side. She offered to throw right to choose under the bus too, as long as there was an exception for life of the mother.

I think Sanders saying the Planned Parenthood was party of the establishment didn't help him with women.

No one claimed that every 59 year old woman supports any particular candidate.

However, the statistical evidence shows that being female and being over a certain age is associated with preferring one candidate versus another.

you guys never learn.

Boy it's going to be fun explaining to my friends why I went from 6 months of passionate Bernie support to early voting for Hillary.

You sound like the type that whines about SJWs and "identity politics" on Reddit honestly because they're not falling in line behind the LOGICAL WHITE HIPSTER opinion.

Nice to see you! Even if it is in this thread...!

... He has moved the whole spectrum. This OP and "Stockholm Syndrome" just prove it. At least we can point at the blatant racism of the Right and know it right for the horror that it is. The kind of patronizing tone it takes over here on the left is just despicably subversive and deeply disappointing.

thoroughly embarrassed by this OP? Just how many people are you going to tell they don't count because they don't support your candidate. Stop embarrassing yourself.;

That's...who the Democratic Party is, mostly.

Without women and minorities ... what voters do you have left?

I am hoping that this OP was posted to be illustrative

It'll be over soon

not southerners
not women
not minorities

we all know their lack of worth, don't we . . . .

...Romney would be president. Actually, scratch that: McCain would be president.

I can't tell any more.

This can't be serious, can it?

I mean, a supposed Democrat essentially saying that woman and minorities don't count?

That sinks it. It HAS to be satire.

Because otherwise I just can't even...

I don't understand the point of this post.

and critical part of the Democratic coalition.

President Obama won in 2012 even though Mitt Romney carried a majority of white men -- and white women.

Hillary will carry women of all races.

And what just happened in NY? Women went strongly for Hillary -- about 60/40, while men went for Bernie -- but only 52/48.

And African American voters were three times as likely to vote for Hillary as for Bernie.

Occasionally we get a brief moment of honesty

Proving to be so very important. We are all important, equal.

There, all better now.

People like this;



and this



and this



and not so much this;

That is definitely true.

Betcha OP didn't think that far ahead.

It seems weird for a Sanders supporter to talk about all the small counties that Bernie won in upstate NY (which votes Republican) and dismiss the huge population centers downstate that Hillary won (and which are heavily Democratic).

Voting is for straight, white, Christian, male landowners goddammit!!

That's like saying "Without great defense and special teams play, Denver would have lost the Super Bowl!"

Take away the millenial dudebros, lily-white states and so-called 'independents', and Sanders drops out last fall...

We can play this game all day, can't we?

Those pesky women and minorities are messing things up for the great Bern....

Sorry for you luck... if you want a party of exclusively white men.... try the Republicans.

And the last time I looked, Democrats in the South, white, black, or any variation have the right to contribute to who our nominee will be. This conservative brush is not as broad as many of you would like to think, but even if it is, as a Democrat, we have a say in who leads our party.

If minorities and women could not vote like in the old days, Bernie wins.

She'd barely be able to tie Bernie.

If only white guys could vote like in the 1800s she'd be in big trouble. Mmmkay.

I must say that some of my fellow Sanders supporters have gone above and beyond with embarrassing posts around here.

This place has gone so tribal most are afraid to speak out when they see such idiocy. This OP is shameful.