2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If the Democratic Party continues to go [View all]reACTIONary
(5,768 posts).... and I took a close look at it.
But it doesn't, and can't, address the impact of the vicious, negative campaigning Sanders will be subject to by the repugs if he is nominated. That campaign will focus on his socialist identity, and that won't be a smear because that's what he calls himself. He will spend all of his time explaining and excusing and justifing socialism and if you are explaining, you are losing.
Right now Sanders is struggling to break 30% among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents. That's a very sympathetic population, but he doesn't seem to be doing very well. So I would not be optimistic about his chances in the general election.