2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: There is no doubt it's been a tough week for HRC. [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)...who referred the matter to the FBI? Barack Obama, who appointed all those people? (As to Obama, he quite possibly feels very betrayed for having appointed her SoS. She defied him secretly on Blumenthal. She created one big clusterfuck in Libya and, in another, Honduras, wrecked U.S. diplomacy in Latin America for several years, until Obama and Kerry did the opening to Cuba, etc. She defied all protocol and all common sense with the private email server, which now threatens his legacy with its only scandal.)
The Washington Psst "have attacked her for years"? The Atlantic? MSNBC?
"Bernie would never win a general..."? It's Hillary who is in trouble, with falling polls against Trump. She's now losing to him. And it's Bernie who has been beating Trump, and beating him badly, in every poll since January.
His very high trustworthy and favorability numbers will overcome any negatives on "democratic socialism," and there are many indications that the American people couldn't give a crap about labels like "socialism" any more. They want HELP...from THEIR government! Bernie has easily been able to show that he's no more radical than Dwight Eisenhower (90% taxes on the rich; free public college tuition; said that anybody who opposed the New Deal "doesn't belong in American politics."