Don't trust the people predicting that Sanders would have done better in the general.
There are a lot of dispirited Sanders supporters claiming that Clinton will lose the general election, and Sanders would have won it.
The thing to remember about these people is that, almost universally, until recently they were predicting that Clinton would lose the primary and Sanders would win it, in defiance of all the evidence.
They've demonstrated over and over again that, for reasons of cognitive bias, they underestimate Clinton and overestimate Sanders.
So their predictions should be given less wait than the predictions of the majority of informed commentators who thought that Clinton would almost certainly win the primary, and will be more likely to win the general.
I'm far from certain that Clinton will win the White House. For the last four years, I've been pessimistically predicting that a Republican victory this year was more likely, because the Dems have been in power for eight years and longer than that is very rare. There were only two possible matchups this year where I think the Democrat would be the favourite to win - Trump/Clinton and Trump/O'Malley (one might conceivably make a case for Cruz/Clinton and Cruz/O'Malley, but I think those are more toss-ups). But it's looking like we're going to get one of those. If the Republicans do nominate Trump, the election is now the democrats' to lose.
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