Bernie supporters could blow this election: Why refusing to vote for Hillary Clinton will only make
Bernie supporters could blow this election: Why refusing to vote for Hillary Clinton will only make everything worseby Gary LeGum at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2015/12/02/bernie_supports_could_blow_this_election_why_refusing_to_vote_for_hillary_clinton_will_only_make_things_worse/
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I recall a debate that year about whether true liberals should vote for Nader because, in his formulation, there was not a dime’s worth of difference between the two major-party candidates, Al Gore and George W. Bush. I recall email blasts from at least one acquaintance in a toss-up state trying to interest his friends in states that were safely for Gore in a voting trade of sorts, whereby one of us would cast our vote for Nader; in return, our friend would cast his vote for Gore. The thinking was that this would preserve a Democratic victory in both states while also registering liberal protests at the centrist drift of the party.
I recall spending the night before the election drinking in a P.F. Chang’s in Los Angeles with a group of friends, one of whom had brought along a reporter from the L.A. Daily News who planned on casting her vote the next day for Nader. There had been some vague concern over polls showing the race for California’s 54 electoral votes might be close, but she assured us all that this was not the case. California was safely in Gore’s column, so liberals might as well cast that protest vote.
I recall thinking that this was a dumb idea, mostly because I followed the campaign closely enough to believe that the “not a dime’s worth of difference” formulation was utter garbage. But there was a nationwide movement of voters like my acquaintance and that reporter pushing the deal.
I recall spending election night lying on the floor of my room, nursing an enormous hangover, screaming at my TV when the networks started calling Florida for Bush. It seemed that some liberals in Florida had cast those protest votes in the closest of close races because they just couldn’t bring themselves to pull the lever for Gore. So we got Florida and the recounts and the Brooks Brothers riot and generally a display of American democracy in action that was more embarrassing than anything in the previous 30 years, which up until then you wouldn’t have thought possible.
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to have pre-approved scapegoats.
Gore won Florida and Nader voters did not matter.
Shoulda counted the votes. 
What a loser, all real Democrats eat at Olive Garden, even I know that!!
I agree with your comment.
FFS
I mean that.
I don't have the patience for it, but it is nice for one of us to not appear like the boogyman to the h supporters.
The fact that I don't believe she will represent the party in the GE helps!
You are not US, you are CA.
e.g., the purported "front-runner," will blow the election... It is inappropriate to criticize those who are voting predominantly on Candidate Principle, Past voting and policy record of the Candidate, consistency of position, and on whom they feel can most be Trusted to perform as POTUS most closely to their campaign rhetoric. 
a meme. A quaint little idea really....
insufficiently caulked window wells and that nagging persistent toenail fungus......
DAMN YOU, SANDERS SUPPORTERS! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! 
Bernie Sanders: "I'm not asking Wall Street or the billionaires for money."
... but beyond the walls of this web site, they don't exist in sufficient numbers. They overestimate the value of passive-aggressive blackmail efforts. Bernie's "soft support" poll numbers already indicate the disparity between DU and the real-world.
They'll do as they please, no matter what, and I take them at their word. Why should anyone continue to indulge the vanities or validate their petty grudges?
People who say such things likely do so because they're feeling vulnerable and helpless. It's a way to regain some sense of power and control. Let them have their tantrum. Let them threaten to hold their breath until they turn-blue and pass out.
... to proudly proclaim that they are so easily influenced by the comments of anonymous strangers on an internet discussion forum.
PS: Just so you know, I don't actually believe you. You're grandstanding. It's pretty obvious where you've stood all along, and I find it laughable that little-ol' me has the power to change your opinion one way or the other. You'll do as you please, and that's perfectly fine. Find your cajoling elsewhere, it won't come from me.
And by seriously I mean I could care less whether they vote for her, write in their spouse, or whatever. There are so few of these types that what they do doesn't matter at all. This is NOT a Ralph Nader movement. 
