Bernie would have been worse? Let's talk evidence.

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Thursday November 10, 2016 · 7:55 AM PST

2016/11/10 · 07:55

I’m not sure I buy that Bernie would have ‘been worse’. Having looked at the numbers, the obvious issue was turnout in D areas. If someone can post a good map showing total votes by county 2012/2016 you’ll see what I mean, Rust Belt especially.

The question that solves the problem is “Why?” and I think the answer is “We didn’t give them enough to vote *for*”. I was a Bernie voter that was not 100% for either one, but Hillary was obviously fine. But I would put myself in the well-educated and highly-informed and engaged groups, so I’m not really who needed to be convinced.

From @BenSasse in APR post today:

08Obama 69M* 12Obama 66M*
04Bush 62M
12Romney 61M
8McCain 60M
16Clinton 59.6M* 16Trump 59.4M

Democratic vote *totals* have fallen with our excitement level with the candidate, while the GOP votes have remained nearly constant with a slight fall. That, my friends, is the story. Was Bernie exciting enough, that’s another story, but it is hard to argue that Hillary had a broad set of people fired up for sure, as we all know she had very many people grudgingly accepting her. A little more follows below:

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