Any anecdotal evidence of fall out from Hillary's Nancy Reagan gaffe?

[1monster]

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I ask because a co-worker of my husband lost a lot of friends in the 80s to AIDS. He worked in the music business, which like the theatre business, had way too many people contracting and dying of AIDS.

This co-worker had been planning on voting for Hillary, but is so livid about Hillary's crediting Nancy Reagan with working to solve the AIDS crises that he is now going to vote for Bernie.

I remember those years. My husband and I worked in theatre and we knew far too many young men who died of AIDS. A young man who I had known since he was fifteen years old, and who I loved like a brother died in January, 1987, two weeks before his 29th birthday. He was diagnosed in 1985. When he told me about his diagnosis, AZT was just beginning its trials and I begged him to try and get in on it, but he was not chosen.

AIDS began to be noticed in the early 80s. Had Reagan done anything to try to stem the tide of that plague, my friend might never have contracted AIDS or might have had a chance to live with it. (RIP Jonny. Love you. Still miss you.)

Since we are already Bernie supporters, Hillary's gaffe doesn't affect our votes. But I'm wondering if others who lost friends to AIDS in the 80s who were uncommitted have now decided to vote for Bernie or if they were committed to Hillary now have doubts.

[rhett o rick]

1. Her remark most likely did little damage because those that follow her, do so blindly.

They don't know what her postilions are on issues because they fear, for good reason, that she will change her position and leave them high and dry.

[Kalidurga]

2. Good question

I don't know the answer. I won't pretend to. I haven't even talked to anyone about it because real life stuff. But, eventually I will. It is bound to come up at some point in the circle of people I come in contact with. I haven't gone to Facebook to talk yet, I still can't really. I never knew how much a 22 year old wound could still hurt. So, in a few days I will go and I will talk about my uncle and I hope to not make anyone terribly sad or to open up old wounds as well. One good thing happened in all of this. I remembered how my family reacted my uncle having AIDS. They didn't pretend it was something else, they didn't hide him. So, there is that from my somewhat right leaning family members. I got to remember we have each other's backs even if sometimes we are at each other's throats.

[Gore1FL]

3. It flipped my sister to Sanders. nt

[1monster]

4. That's two.