2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why would any liberal support Hillary over Bernie? [View all]kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Lessons learned is her strength. Also, I fear the RW is just waiting for the critical time to begin to label Bernie as a dreaded "socialist." Remember all the negative jabs from the GOP base on Obama being a "socialist." This was just the RW thin line from "communist." It has worked for them in the past and will be their rallying cry if it looks like Bernie will win the primary. That tag won't stick to HRC...even we here bemoan that. Then there is the women's vote. Even though many of us love Bernie this is HRC's strong "hole card." If she sound enough like Bernie around the economic issues, this will give her the edge, I think. But then that vote for the Iraq invasion will always come back to haunt her.
For sure, Bernie speaks to all the issues in ways we (liberals, progressives) like. And that may be what works against him in the end given the American electorate of the last two elections.