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McMarbles posted...

Bernie Sanders couldnt even beat Hillary Clinton, and people keep telling me shes literally the worst candidate ever.

She's a weak candidate in the general. Not the primary.

The primary and the general are not the same election and do not feature the same voters. Being unpopular within a political party is not the same as being unpopular within the whole country at large. Independents, a big portion of Bernie's support, can't even vote in most primaries. When the voters are mostly party loyalists, having the endorsements of the grand majority of party leaders like Hillary did is an insurmountable advantage.

An example of how different primaries and generals are was shown in 2010, when Lisa Murkowski lost the Alaskan Senate primary, but then when she ran independent she won the general of the same race.

You cannot use someone losing among one set of voters to say that they'd also lose among another group of mostly different voters (the general electorate far outnumbers the primary electorate), especially when no recorded data supports that conclusion at all.