MT-SU Billings: Clinton getting crushed, Sanders doing much better

[Holmes]

It's imaginary support. No one is paying close enough attention to know who Sanders really is, and they'll never have to because he won't be the nominee. If he's so strong, why isn't this support translating into support in the primaries? The media spends 5 minutes on Sanders for every 50 minutes on Clinton, Trump, and other candidates with an actual shot. Republicans spend $100 million on negative ads against Clinton for every $100k on negative ads against Sanders. The only people who really talk at length about Sanders are people on blogs, Reddit or Tumblr who pretty much just whine and complain about how the Democratic establishment is so in the bag for Clinton, as if they'd really go out of their way to help give a non-Democrat the nomination.

If it gives you any solace, jfern, we will never know how Sanders would fare in a general election, after months and months of negative ads - and there's a lot of ammo against Sanders that Republicans can use, don't be so deluded into believing that he'd be able toughen it out an win, but you will always have these polls to comfort you.

Or do you actually believe that Sanders' r[love]ution will save the day for him - like it did for Democrats in 2010 and 2014?