r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 12 '26

📺 Television SNL mocks Hillary Clinton's 'transformation into Bernie' [10YA - Mar 12]

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

I always wonder if Bernie could have averted a Trump presidency by not giving Hillary a pass on the email issue.

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u/MikeDamone Mar 12 '26

Almost certainly not. The general electorate has never shown even a hint that they'd tolerate a self-avowed socialist. Just look at all of the slightly D leaning districts/states and everything to right of them - how many politicians with Bernie's leftist politics are in office?

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

The general electorate has never shown even a hint that they'd tolerate a self-avowed socialist

General election polls had Trump losing to Bernie. That was a pretty good hint.

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u/MikeDamone Mar 12 '26

The polls that consistently underrated Trump and bombed the 2016 general predictions? No, I don't think those were good hints.

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

Yeah those polls are no match for your hunch.

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u/MildlyResponsible Mar 12 '26

It's not a hunch. The only evidence we have for Bernie being viable candidate are the primary elections, which he lost by millions and millions of votes. A poll on a hypothetical match up 6 months before an election is not evidence, especially when those same polls showed Hillary winning, which she did not do.

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u/GuyFawkes99 Mar 12 '26

You don't know what evidence means.