(03-12-2016, 01:10 AM)Resentine Wrote:

(03-12-2016, 01:07 AM)Imperial Frost Federation Wrote: Pick Sanders and the Republicans will most likely win, while picking trump will let the Democrats win the election. Either way both parties are screwed regardless of the nomination.

Like I pointed out to Punchwood earlier, current polling suggests that Bernie would beat all of the current Republican candidates, and by a larger margin than Hillary. I have no idea where this idea of "The Republicans win if Bernie is the nominee" is coming from, but, for the moment it has no evidence supporting it.

Bernie would do better in a general election than Hillary for two reasons:

He can galvanize the young vote into the polls; and

He's not Hillary Clinton.

A lot of millennials that support Bernie now are not likely to turn around and support Hillary if Bernie fails to get the nomination. That is the price of his attacks on her, particularly over her ties to Wall Street. Odds are that many millennials will not vote if Hillary gets the nomination, because to them, both candidates aren't really a great option.

I also know that no matter how much they may agree with Bernie's policies, a lot of liberals and moderates will not support Hillary Clinton, period. It doesn't matter what she will try to say to appease the left- to them, she is just another politician, saying whatever she needs to say to get elected.