The Sanders camp is always bringing up the "Clinton Machine" as an excuse for Sander's lack

[lunamagica]

of support from his peers.

How come those same people were not afraid to switch heir support to Obama eight years ago? How many careers were destroyed then by "The Clinton Machine? What was the terrible revenge that "The Clinton Machine" unleashed on them?

Freud said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". Yes sometimes (or usually) the simplest explanation is the truth. The reason they didn't flock to him is simply that they don't like and/or trust him. That's it

Simple, isn't it

[stopbush]

1. If you're making excuses, you're not winning.

[savalez]

2. Bingo!

They came, they saw, they voted for someone else.

[bluestateguy]

3. They don't even know what machine politics are

Civil service reform laws killed off the political machines, first at a national level and then in the states and cities.

[tonyt53]

4. Most are first time voters

Most have never registered to vote, much less vote. most are bandwagon jumpers - they jumped on Bernie's bandwagon over two lines - free college tuition and free healthcare. I'm a lifelong Democrat and have never missed a general election and have never voted for a Republican. i also believe in working to earn things in life. Bernie-ites will be gone as soon as colleges have all let out for the summer because that is where is holds most of his rallies.

[DoBotherMe]

11. Welcome to DU

[DemonGoddess]

5. He has no peer support

because they don't like him. He doesn't work well with others.

[SharonClark]

10. That's what I hear, too

[Agnosticsherbet]

6. If it had not been for those three million Democratic voters inside the machine...

He would have gotten away with it.

[okasha]

7. Yes, Hillary's campaign is far better organized than Sander's.

That's because she is massively competent herself and hired really first-rate staff.

If Bernie wonders why he's losing, he need look no further than Devine, Weaver and the apparently scatterbrained Jane, who can't make an accurate budget or find tax returns.

[Thinkingabout]

8. It was not the Clinton machine which I support, it is a very qualified Hillary

Who is running for president. She is well versed on many issues, knows what she is talking, has the facts and when given opportunities to answer questions she did not dance off to talk about Wall Street, breaking up the banks and Hillary's speeches. I do not support Sanders because he has not been able to answer how he will break up the banks, one of his core issues, I am on Medicare and I know of the problems and I know it isn't free.

[NurseJackie]

9. Excuse-making. Demonization. Imaginary boogeyman.

[Cha]

12. Desperate BS thought his rw buzz words were going to win this primary for him. LOL