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In reply to the discussion: Bernie To Dems: Stop Neglecting Trump Voters! [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)39. You make a good point. I was 100% behind Hillary in the Primary
and General. But one mistake Hillary made was staying off the campaign trail too much, she gave Bernie critical life a couple times by doing that and she played right into Trump's claim that she was old and feeble. Hillary should have used her abundant financial resources to live on the road, visiting small cities and large cities in battleground states, going to red states that she didn't expect to win to help life local Democrats, staying the simple homes of supporters like Obama made a habit of doing - those images would have played massively to offset the conned image that Trump was trying to convey.
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Just not true because many areas that went overwhelmingly for Obama twice, switched to trump. That
manicraven
Mar 2017
#31
Recognizing that a decent chunk of the voters have a below-average IQ (more on 45's side than not),
JudyM
Mar 2017
#182
Great analysis. However I do think we can peel away a bit more than 5% of Deplorables.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2017
#203
Exactly! Democrats will be a lost party into the future. Democrats need to support everyone. Trump
RKP5637
Mar 2017
#51
Cause Russia had nothing to do with Clinton's loss? I'm sick of the ignore Russia crowd
uponit7771
Mar 2017
#2
It's weird, isn't it. But I guess it's hard for people to accept they were manipulated by wikileaks
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#115
Some of us are sick of the everything is hunky dory, Hillary/we won the popular vote crowd.
KPN
Mar 2017
#139
Strawman... No one is even attempting to feign perfection but you. Just not going to ignore reality
uponit7771
Mar 2017
#180
Another strawman, no one is saying the only reason she lost was cheating but you
uponit7771
Mar 2017
#193
There are a small percent of them we might be able to peel off, maybe 10% -20%.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2017
#85
When you call them that on a public board, you're calling them that to their faces. (n/t)
Jim Lane
Mar 2017
#124
Hekate to Bernie:YOU take care of the Trump voters!The rest of us are hanging on by our fingernails
Hekate
Mar 2017
#4
They WON. They got everything they thought they wanted. Sorest bunch of winners in the land.
Hekate
Mar 2017
#62
Bernie is taking care of their feelings. He's going to them with the message the Democratic Party
KPN
Mar 2017
#143
Hekate to Bernie:YOU take care of the Trump voters!The rest of us are hanging on by our fingernails.
LenaBaby61
Mar 2017
#54
Oh. So I should try to kowtow to folks who voted to deport my relatives, because?????
bravenak
Mar 2017
#95
Of those responses, I reject pandering. I also reject dismissing and ignoring.
Jim Lane
Mar 2017
#135
Howard Dean actually implemented that strategy but many Sanders supporters turned on him
KittyWampus
Mar 2017
#27
just read the whole piece. Sanders has a whole spiel quoted where he attacks the Democratic party.
KittyWampus
Mar 2017
#29
I agree. The people who voted for Obama (some twice) are not racist. They just had not felt any of
manicraven
Mar 2017
#41
Ok. How do we love them? Let's count the ways: (1) Build the wall, (2) Kill Obamacare, (3) ...
dalton99a
Mar 2017
#28
Which Democrat is not aware we need a 50 state strategy? Hasn't Ellison and Perez talked about this?
JHan
Mar 2017
#35
"only 7 percent of Obama voters flipped to support Trump, and the real number could be even less"
dalton99a
Mar 2017
#58
Most people do, there's already an acknowledgement we need to become a party of local government...
JHan
Mar 2017
#68
I agree with Senator Sanders - Dems need to be in the red states as well.
Talk Is Cheap
Mar 2017
#67
Maybe Trump voters should show some reasons why they should be paid attention to!
hrmjustin
Mar 2017
#101
Well said. What we need to go after the 47% who didn't vote for one reason or another
still_one
Mar 2017
#113
NO!!!. Everyone who voted for trump knew he was a racist, sexist, and xenophobe, and they
still_one
Mar 2017
#108
There are plenty of people who voted for Obama and chose tRump. Should we give up on their future
JudyM
Mar 2017
#164
So voting for 45 is a litmus test for voters we should appeal to? Forget the ones who voted Obama?
JudyM
Mar 2017
#183
Where we need to focus is on the 47% who didn't bother to vote. That is where
still_one
Mar 2017
#184
They voted for Trump. It's just a normal mistake anybody makes. Like dropping a baby on its' head.
Tiggeroshii
Mar 2017
#132
Hey Bernie! Stop worrying about Trump voters and worry about Russia for a change
leftofcool
Mar 2017
#133
I can worry about more than one thing -- and Bernie is smarter than I am. (n/t)
Jim Lane
Mar 2017
#138
I'm uninterested in what a white, male, non-Dem Senator from a racially-homogenized state has to
msanthrope
Mar 2017
#154
I don't know, he couldn't even get his BoBers to vote for the Democrat, not seeing
seaglass
Mar 2017
#157
The position he has that he's presumably using for all of these "town halls" and appearances...
George II
Mar 2017
#176
A number of them are single issue voters. Anti-choice being a major culprit.
ismnotwasm
Mar 2017
#192