Democratic Ides of March Tuesday results thread (first polls close at 7pm ET)

[catographer]

I have no enthusiasm for Hillary at all. My only incentive to vote for her is to stop Trump.

She will lower turnout in the General.

Not against Trump!

[RightBehind]

I have no enthusiasm for Hillary at all. My only incentive to vote for her is to stop Trump.

She will lower turnout in the General.

Exactly. Many people who supported Bernie are going third party or not voting at all.


If Trump becomes president, I'm pointing the finger at Hillary's primary voters.

[Crumpets]

The Sanders hacks are unbearable. Hillary won. Get over it. She'd make a great president. She will still get things done. It may not be free college and universal healthcare. But it's good enough. Stop deluding yourselves or being sore losers. It's imperative that Trump does not make it to the White House, and none of you are helping.
I am switching my endorsement, by the way.

I don't know how good she'd make. We've put up eight years of obstruction under Obama and I think they hate Hillary way more.

But they're just fine with Sanders and will go along with all of his proposals?

[yourelection]

Where does Sanders go from here?

[The Free North]

To be fair, Hillary still has a cringingly annoying speech voice.

Agreed, I pointed this out several times. The faux excitement makes nails on a chalkboard soundly soothing.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

To be fair, Hillary still has a cringingly annoying speech voice.

She does, but also to be fair, we've all been spoiled by going on 9 years of Obama's soaring rhetorical skills. This speech was probably her best since the campaign began, she seemed on fire.

[Antonio the Sixth]

well sh*t

[RightBehind]

The Sanders hacks are unbearable. Hillary won. Get over it. She'd make a great president. She will still get things done. It may not be free college and universal healthcare. But it's good enough. Stop deluding yourselves or being sore losers. It's imperative that Trump does not make it to the White House, and none of you are helping.
I am switching my endorsement, by the way.

I don't know how good she'd make. We've put up eight years of obstruction under Obama and I think they hate Hillary way more.

But they're just fine with Sanders and will go along with all of his proposals?

If the Dems keep the White House regardless it'll be tough but I know would be somebody for the people.

[RightBehind]

Where does Sanders go from here?

Probably back to the Senate knowing he'll be one of the greatest presidents that never was.

[yourelection]

To be fair, Hillary still has a cringingly annoying speech voice.

Would she be more electable if she had a better voice?

[Crumpets]

Another gem from r/sandersforpresident:

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[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

I have no enthusiasm for Hillary at all. My only incentive to vote for her is to stop Trump.

She will lower turnout in the General.

Exactly. Many people who supported Bernie are going third party or not voting at all.


If Trump becomes president, I'm pointing the finger at Hillary's primary voters.

Sooooo you're gonna blame Hillary's 66% of voters for sticking with her instead of Bernie's 30% for jumping ship to an obvious GE spoiler?

[The Other Castro]

Clinton won, Sanders lost, it's over, so now can we please stop with the animosity around here?

[Gass3268]

Can we put the whining and complaining in another thread and focus on the results coming in here. K, thanks!

[Crumpets]

And another:

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[DrScholl]

And another:

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Wow. Insanity.

[IceSpear]

Clinton won, Sanders lost, it's over, so now can we please stop with the animosity around here?

Meh, might as well get it all out now. There's a long way til November.

[emailking]

I have no enthusiasm for Hillary at all. My only incentive to vote for her is to stop Trump.

She will lower turnout in the General.

Exactly. Many people who supported Bernie are going third party or not voting at all. 

We hear about this kind of thing every single election cycle and it never seems to actually happen.

[Gass3268]

And another:

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This is embarrassing. 

[RaphaelDLG]

1) Hilldog is really a way, way worse option than Bernie

2) At the same time, if Bernie supporters seriously think the correct response is to vote for Trump or not vote, they are ing fools.  Clinton is competent, intelligent, way more liberal than the Repubs, and will take care of Supreme Court business.

3) In general people need to be less childish/impatient and recognize that actual change happens with consistent dialogue, protest, and voting in ALL elections, whether midterm, primary, general, local, federal over many, many years, not just freaking out over one dude in one primary.

[Yan]

Sorry I disappeared for a while there, I had to go drown my sorrows in about six Coronas.

[Gass3268]

Sanders Supporters Venting Zone

Please, get the complaining out of this thread!

[IceSpear]

1) Hilldog is really a way, way worse option than Bernie

2) At the same time, if Bernie supporters seriously think the correct response is to vote for Trump or not vote, they are ing fools.  Clinton is competent, intelligent, way more liberal than the Repubs, and will take care of Supreme Court business.

3) In general people need to be less childish/impatient and recognize that actual change happens with consistent dialogue, protest, and voting in ALL elections, whether midterm, primary, general, local, federal over many, many years, not just freaking out over one dude in one primary.

I agree with you so much on #3. If Bernie people directed even a fraction of their effort for Bernie that they did on Congress, they could make some major positive change. But it's hard for a lot of people to understand there's more to government than a president. I blame our education system.

[Admiral Kizaru]

If you are a Sanders supporter and you think a literal fascist is better than Clinton, you are literally an embarrassment to Senator Sanders and the campaign he's running.

This.


Some of the reactions from the usual suspects tonight have been pathetic.

[RJEvans]

Where does Sanders go from here?

Arizona apparently. The next couple weeks will be kind to him but he can't win blowouts in NY, CA or NJ to offset Clintons lead. He needs to realize this. Keep going but lay off the attacks on Clinton. Spread the message but stop running against Clinton.