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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think the Bernie-Clinton tensions are overstated by a media that loves to play up conflict. Bernie's attacks on her were often self-indulgent and were more negative than they might have been, and I didn't agree with them, but I also don't think the fact that he was attacking her made much difference in the end. Trump's opponents in the primaries said much worse about him, and yet he won. There continues to be a center-left split in the party, but it has been there for years, and Bernie and Clinton are manifestations of it rather than the causes. The left will continue to suspect that the center is overly pragmatic and cautious, and the center will continue to complain that the left is a bunch of hippies and communists who will never be accepted by most of America. They're both right.
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The thing that amazes me about the results is that all analysis I see focuses on disgruntled white people in Ohio or Pa or Mi. None of it looks at the third party issue. When I met Less he said "why do you think Johnson voters wouldn't break as much for Trump as Clinton?" I have no answer, I just cannot believe they would go Trump. I can't believe there has been no analysis of that breakdown.
