2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I hereby pledge to give no indication whatsoever about how I intend to vote [View all]LynneSin
(95,337 posts)and when the primaries are done it has always been expressed by the owners that this site is for people who support the Democrats. This will be my 4th Presidential Election posting here at DU, it hasn't changed.
I am all for a great primary but in the end this site is called DEMOCRATIC Underground and it was founded by democrats. Not sure what people are still surprised after all this time about this site's policy about supporting Non-Democrats in general elections.
And yes exceptions have been made when there have been no Democrats actually running in the race. The Democratic Party has always been supportive of Bernie Sanders up in Vermont and made it a point to not field any opponents against him when he ran as an Independent. Having no Democrat in the race, there was not an issue for people supporting Sanders as he ran for both the House and US Senate. He would side with the Dems so it is all good. And as a presidential candidate he is running as a Democrat.