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Originally Posted by nik-
Personally, I think Sanders not being a member of the Democratic party and being able to answer the question "what have you done for the party" with "not much" is a huge selling point. Party loyalty isn't a virtue. Him having to run under the Democrat banner is an indictment of the political status quo, not of him.
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Bingo.
The vast majority of primary voters, to say nothing of general election voters, could not give less of a crap about your years of partisan loyalty. The parties are broadly looked at as incompetent insular country clubs. Obviously this sort of attitude matters to some extent in the primaries because it's the party itself that is running the thing, and a lot of those people are going to think much like John Kerry about Bernie. But there's a reason he's very likely going to end up with the win in 3 of the first 4 primaries (including Iowa, if they ever figure out the remaining precincts).