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On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Michael Meeropol <mameerop at gmail.com> wrote:
> I totally agree with Marv -- but if Bernie had won the nomination, I would
> have welcomed the effort to fight the good fight and win ....
>
> Trump would have had very few arrows in his quiver besides anti-communism
> --- and his worship of Putin might have confused his redbaiting supporters
> --- but imaginary history, though interesting, doesn't get you very far in
> the present ....
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A reputable poll earlier this month showed Sanders as the most highly
>> regarded politician in the United States.
>>
>> https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/10/bernie-sanders-polling-
>> favorability-trump-hillary-clinton/
>>
>> Had Sanders somehow managed to win the nomination, however, many of
>> Clinton’s supporters would have stayed home, and the election would have
>> turned on whether the inevitable vicious red-baiting by a united Republican
>> party would have retained enough of its traditional toxicity to overwhelm
>> Sanders’ personal appeal and popular social policies.
>>
>> *****
>>
>> In Hindsight, Backers of Bernie Sanders Lament What Might Have Been
>> By Matt Flegenheimer and Yamiche Alcindor
>> New York Times
>> Oct 18 2016
>>
>> Even to skeptics, the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders has
>> often appeared less quixotic with the benefit of hindsight.
>>
>> If Mr. Sanders had only edged Hillary Clinton in Iowa — and not the other
>> way around — before winning a blowout in New Hampshire, perhaps things
>> would have been different.
>>
>> If he had only attacked Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server as
>> secretary of state, instead of offering her a reprieve, some supporters
>> lamented, perhaps things would have been different.
>>
>> And now, as Mrs. Clinton contends with daily disclosures from the hacked
>> messages of top campaign aides — missives that have reinforced the central
>> progressive criticisms of her bid, including her coziness with Wall Street
>> — some of Mr. Sanders’s admirers have been compelled to consider again what
>> might have been.
>>
>> Full: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/19/us/politics/bernie-sanders
>> -campaign.html?action=click&contentCollection=us&module=
>> NextInCollection®ion=Footer&pgtype=article&version=
>> newsevent&rref=collection%2Fnews-event%2Felection-2016
>>
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