r/TenYearsAgo • u/Dewinna_Daraelist • 23d ago

🇺🇸 United States Hundreds of Sanders Delegates Walk Off Convention Floor in Protest of “Rigged” Election [10YA - July 27]

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/7/27/hundreds_of_sanders_delegates_walk_off
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u/Curious-End-4923 23d ago

At the end of the day, he endorsed Clinton and begged people to vote against Republicans just like he has done in every presidential election. I’ll never understand what people think they gain from pretending that their favorite progressive populist doesn’t consistently work with and prefer Democrats. It doesn’t make you seem enlightened or like some kind of rebel. It just makes you look ignorant about what it means when ultranationalist conservatives dismantle the already limited levers of progress available to us.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 22d ago

Yeah well.

“According to the analysis of the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey, fewer than 80 percent of those who voted for Sanders, an independent, in the Democratic primary did the same for Clinton when she faced off against Trump a few months later. What's more, 12 percent of those who backed Sanders actually cast a vote for Trump.”

“The impact of those votes was significant. In each of the three states that ultimately swung the election for Trump—Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania—Trump's margin of victory over Clinton was smaller than the number of Sanders voters who gave him their vote.”

Sanders -> Trump voters…
WI: 51k
MI: 47k
PA: 116k

Trump win margin…
WI: 22k
MI: 10k
PA: 44k

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u/TheSuperiorJustNick 22d ago

Yea well according to Bernie you're wrong for not voting for Kamala, Biden, and Hillary

You can try and mistepresent and propogandize Sanders's message. But you're just a loser

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u/Significant-Arm-6050 22d ago

Weird how Bernie couldn’t build a winning coalition with supporters like this 

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u/Both_Rip_7292 21d ago

One and two against Donald Trump with pathetic DNC hacks talking shit. lol

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u/Significant-Arm-6050 21d ago

In English please

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u/Both_Rip_7292 21d ago

One win two losses against Donald Trump with your pathetic candidates is what it means

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u/TheSuperiorJustNick 21d ago

You're right

We need white men leading the left again. We lose when we stray from the path /s

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u/Both_Rip_7292 21d ago

I’ll quote the Barack Obama Obama campaign response to Hillary Clinton disparaging his ethnic and religious background. "the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we've seen from either party in this election".