Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The Impotence of "Stop Sanders" Democrats [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)who refused to vote Democrat in both elections.
Roughly a quarter of both Sanders' and Hillary's supporters behaved very similarly in a shockingly hostile and antagonistic way toward the other candidate during the primary. So badly that it drew a good amount of press attention.
And the same percentage in both elections then refused to vote Democrat in the general when their candidate didn't win, decamping spitefully for either the Republican or third party candidate.
I can see nothing Hillary did to draw people who would behave so contemptibly in 2008, only that she was running against Obama in that other binary, either-or election.
Think about what it would take that someone COULD claim to have progressive, inclusive principles but vote Republican in this era to smash them all, against progressive government, against regulating capitalism, against civil rights, for persecuting minorities.
And polls say the same percentages are now promising to refuse to vote Democrat in a third election if Sanders isn't the candidate. Which he won't be, of course, and many undoubtedly already know Russia and the Republicans will fail to make it possible for them. So the kind of unprincipled whackos we're talking about won't vote Democrat. Again.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden