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Originally Posted by rubecube
Where was the great coalition that was promised by Biden? It's too early to tell without the full numbers but so far it sounds like he lost the senior vote he was supposed to bring in, bled a massive amount of support among PoCs, and didn't deliver the huge suburban college-educated white vote share he was supposed to.
It also looks like he probably underperformed with independents. On what basis are you saying a progressive candidate would have done worse?
I'm not saying a progressive candidate would have fared better, but it's hard for me to see them doing much worse, and you would have had way higher voter enthusiasm metrics for one.
FTR, I'm not saying Bernie is or was that candidate, but the DNC needs to do some soul-searching after this.
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On the basis that clearly "socialist!" is still an effective strategy. If it could be used on someone who is even further left it would have been even more effective. Thus, they would have got dummied.
The US isn't ready for someone even approaching Bernie yet, let alone Bernie. If it happens it will be incremental.