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Originally Posted by Adder
Heck, it was one of the reasons Bernie couldn't get the nomination.
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Other reasons I'd nominate for the top ten reasons Bernie failed being:
(1) years of ineffective work in Washington;
(2) treating minorities with disregard, from whitesplaining John Lewis and Dolores Huerta to his constant lectures on why his economic policies should take priority over civil rights legislation and issues;
(3) that damn finger wag;
(4) disdain for women in general, starting with things like referring to Emily's List as the "establishment" and going on to his support for right-to-life candidates;
(5) his inability to expound on his own policy priorities for more than ten seconds - remember the NY Daily New Interview?;
(6) the assholes who supported him, especially the misogynists;
(7) his inability to gain traction in large primary states where he had to appeal to more than 5% of the total electorate;
(8) his ego-maniacal priority on filling stadiums rather than organizing votes (which he does know how to do - he was capable of running a 50 state field organization but chose not to);
(9) his reliance on a narrow group of policy and political advisors, and inability to build out his thought-leader network;
(10) his lack of transparency, such as refusing to release his tax returns;
(11) his hypocrisy in doing things like promising to release his returns "when Jane got back to Vermont" and criticizing Clinton for things he was guilt of; and don't forget
(12) losing the debates.
But those are just my nominees - sorry I couldn't keep it to ten. I'm sure others have some thoughts. Bernie was a mediocre candidate whose greatest strengths were nothing more than Clinton's weaknesses.
