2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why would any liberal support Hillary over Bernie? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)the support was based on his campaign promises, he had no real record for us to see, and when he voted for the FISA Amendment, that was a disappointment.
Bernie however has a long, long and very consistent record on all of the major issues, he is truthful, he is not afraid of questions which is a sign that someone has firm convictions.
The only difference in whether or not he can win, re Obama, Obama was supported by some major Corporations and Wall St donors. At that time, I didn't view that as all that important, I didn't exactly like it, but talked myself into thinking it would not affect his decisions.
Those donors clearly believed they could 'work with' Obama. They will do everything they can to stop Bernie from winning.
We've learned a lot more about the corrosive effect of money in politics. Obscene amounts of money will be spent to try to stop because he will represent the interests of the people first, and that is not why they donate all that money to political candidates. THAT is my only fear that anything could prevent him from winning this race.