2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumQuestion: I bailed out of DU before the 2008 primaries. Got tired of it all.
When the Democratic nominee for the general election is all settled, do the DUers who picked the loosing candidate buy the winners a pizza or something to make amends? Or vice versa?
Just wondering.
randys1
(16,286 posts)gets a gift certificate to Olive Garden.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)behind Obama to beat Romney
liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)Most will support the nominee and some will be so sore the will leave and the disrupt or will look for a new target.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)He has illuminated a whole lot of issues that were not talked about before. The genie is out of the bottle and it's not going back in not even after we demand our three wishes.
LiberalArkie
(15,716 posts)is to not be negative and to present the issues facing the American public and to bring them to the forefront. I think that is what he is doing. If he wins, that is just icing on the cake. If not he has won anyway because the topic is no longer austerity.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Then he will win the GE. Then REPUBLICONS will sandbag him. That is when we really need to get to work when Bernie wins. He will need as much if not more support from us than he does now.
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)this will be an ongoing fight .
LiberalArkie
(15,716 posts)The congress critters will sense that the wind might be blowing a different direction, especially with what Koch said in Time this week.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Is there any chance, do you think, of reclaiming the 2nd District seat?
LiberalArkie
(15,716 posts)If money was thrown in for the Democratic candidate, I think she god grab it.. He is my congress critter.
olddots
(10,237 posts)but I would love to buy the Hillary voters a clue ..........joke its a damned joke .
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Grumpy pizza gatherings in the break room often bring the feelings of comradery back.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)I imagine I'll dump most of my ignore list, with a small number of permaignore exceptions, and hope that I don't have to regrow it again from continued constant negativity being tossed around.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)Can't recall who I might have been on the same "side" with then who is now on the other.
Maybe that puts it into perspective. Or, as a philosopher said "In the long run we'll all be dead."
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)i was not super active then. if bernie wins, i will be campaigning hard in my world. if hillary wins, honestly i can not get jazzed and will focus on the downticket. if om wins i will be ok and pretty psyched about him as pres.
edit...in no circumstance will i spend time criticizing the nom, whoever it is. not because of tos but because it is not how i want to spend my time.
LiberalArkie
(15,716 posts)same about the other person. You end up saying "Oh yea, I am totally supporting Hillary" It is just that you don't end up talking their ear off. And it would be the same if the roles are reversed.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)to the other races. and for those of us in the non jazzed category, its a great opportunity to make a difference.
LiberalArkie
(15,716 posts)berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)And they spend the next 4 years criticizing the winner.