Did lingering resentment from the 2008 Democratic primaries and caucuses hurt Hillary in 2016?
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« on: September 13, 2020, 07:34:48 PM »
Maybe the 2008 primaries and caucuses resulted in some younger Obama supporters seeing Hillary as “the person who ran against the first black President”, resulting in them supporting Sanders in 2016 or staying home or voting for Stein in the general election?
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« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2020, 10:32:55 PM »
This sounds pretty baseless.
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« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2020, 10:47:54 PM »
Quote from: darklordoftech on September 13, 2020, 07:34:48 PM
Maybe the 2008 primaries and caucuses resulted in some younger Obama supporters seeing Hillary as “the person who ran against the first black President”, resulting in them supporting Sanders in 2016 or staying home or voting for Stein in the general election?

A lot of young people in 2016 barely remembered Hillary's 2008 run. A 20-year-old in 2016 is 12 in 2008 and probably wasn't paying much, or any, attention to politics at the time.
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« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2020, 10:48:32 PM »
Quote from: EastOfEden on September 15, 2020, 10:47:54 PM
Quote from: darklordoftech on September 13, 2020, 07:34:48 PM
Maybe the 2008 primaries and caucuses resulted in some younger Obama supporters seeing Hillary as “the person who ran against the first black President”, resulting in them supporting Sanders in 2016 or staying home or voting for Stein in the general election?

A lot of young people in 2016 barely remembered Hillary's 2008 run. A 20-year-old in 2016 is 12 in 2008 and probably wasn't paying much, or any, attention to politics at the time.

Sure, but apply that to slightly older Millennials. A 26 year old in 2016 would have been 18 in 2008 and thus quite possibly an enthusiastic Obama supporter. Moreover, a lot of this late 20s/early 30s cohort were radicalized by the Great Recession and the seeming lack of change after 2008. Not hard for them to remember that Hillary voted for Iraq (certainly a common line of attack in 2008), among other things.
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« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2021, 07:35:16 PM »
Not at all

Americans do not remember or care about previous primary runs

How many Americans know who the runner up to Kerry was in 2004? Or the runner up to Romney in 2012?

While most might vagualy remember Hillary running in 2008, I don't think they have enough memory (or sh**ts to give) about it
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