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In reply to the discussion: Incredible moment. Perez moves for Ellison as Deputy Chair [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)We've actually never done well in a fall election after a non-incumbent presidential primary where there was no real contest.
Look at 1952 and 1956. Look at 2000. Look at 2004.
In each case, the "obvious: candidate locked it up early.
the best result in any of those cases was a narrow EC loss caused by our nominee failing to carry his home state.
The election turned on Comey, the Russians and whatever they did, and on the refusal of the party to be explicitly anti-TPP(President Obama, with all his achievements, should have let the party break with it).
Having Hillary clinch at the beginning and having her run on a platform with no Sanders proposals at all would have made no positive difference(our fall campaign ads barely mentioned the platform).
I say all this someone who grieves deeply about the EC imposition of near-fascism.
A few minor changes, none of which would have betrayed anyone in the Democratic base, and Hillary would be president now.