Comments by "NickTheEnlightened" (@NickTheEnlightened) on "Bernie Sanders Will Lose by Walter Mondale Proportions if Nominated" video.
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Ideally, you would be correct. However, even though I believe Bernie will lose spectacularly, I don't think he'll lose quite THAT spectacularly. Here's why.
Ever since the administration of Daddy Bush, the two political parties have slowly but surely grown ever more partisan and in two completely different worlds from each other. We're now at a point in which Republicans and Democrats are so distingushed from one another to where most people feel like there is only one way to vote all the time (and even most so called "independents" still end up voting the same way the vast majority of the time). Knowing this, even if Bernie bleeds a substantial amount of traditional Dem support, it won't be quite enough to make a landslide equivalent to the Reagan-Mondale 1984 romping possible. The fact of the matter is, politics have become far too partisan and most people lean too clearly in one direction or the other to even consider voting for someone else. Therefore, the best we can hope for is a Bush/Dukakis style landslide, and even that would take an extraordinary amount of luck to happen.
Just trying to be realistic here. I absolutely hate Bernie and would panic the fuck out if he actually won, but even though I'm at least 85% sure he won't win, I'm also not going to get carried away and predict that he'll lose in such a fashion.
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