Democrats: If it is down to Clinton/Sanders rematch who do you support?

[DK_Mo82]

"Don't you realize you're here forever?"

The field starts out with nine candidates.  Sanders wins Iowa with Clinton placing distant third.  But then Hillary Clinton, butt of joke for most of the campaign, surges to a surprising 2nd place in New Hampshire, losing to Sanders by only eight, and then turns around and wins Nevada by 1pct and South Carolina by 12pct, including the Black vote in SC by 55:25 over Sanders.

So it comes down to the rest of the Nation. In this Sanders Clinton 2020 primary rematch, how do you vote?

[DK_Mo82]

I voted for Clinton in last year's primary, and I would vote for Sanders if they ran against each other again.

The likelihood of the race boiling down to those two candidates again is extraordinarily low, though.

I would agree if either side (establishment or activists) had a necessary hero in waiting. They don't.

[DK_Mo82]

If Hillary insists on running again, I'll have no choice but to believe she's actually an alien from Mars that was sent here to infiltrate and destroy human society.

A frustrated Democrat might have said that to Hubert Humphrey at this time in 1969. It would be very hard for her to win and she would be very unpopular with larger electorate, but still more popular than Trump if his current trajectory is any indication.

She knows that if somehow she gets the Dem nomination in 2020 she once again will be big favorite to be the president. The only thing I think would stop her is if Chelsea wants to go into politics and they decide another Hillary campaign would risk damaging Chelsea's career.

Another factor here, if the third candidate is someone like Cory Booker, Sanders could get plurality of delegates but lose as Booker trades in his delegates for vp slot or whatever he wanted.  In that scenario Clinton would be leaking voters from the moment she got the nomination and she would have to spend the general election catering to Sanders concerns.

[DK_Mo82]

^^^
At least Hubert Humphrey who was a true progressive champion actually made a race of 1968. He was trailing a majority of the Campaign and almost pulled it off.

Clinton did not make a race of 2016? In strict terms she did better than Humphrey. You and I understand why this is fallacy logic but most voters won't. Expect facile 'Re-elect Clinton' bumper stickers in reference to her over 2% popular vote win.

Anyway I think Sanders squeezes it out in this scenario if only on the strength of disproportionate caucus wins in the plains and mountain states.