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« on: February 15, 2022, 03:09:29 PM »

How would it have turned out? Would he have beaten Hillary? And would Bernie still do well in caucus states?
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« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2022, 09:26:58 PM »

He'd have been creamed and embarrassed.
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« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2022, 12:23:10 AM »

I think he loses, but makes Clinton's nomination even closer. I think, ironically, Biden would take more support from Bernie that he would from Hillary, I'd say a 60-40 split.
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« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2022, 06:52:15 AM »

Bernie would drop out fairly quickly, probably before Iowa, as his source of free media and fundraising dries up.

As for the primaries, Biden becomes the anti-Clinton, and does much better than Sanders, and might be able to force a contested convention, unless Obama intervenes with an endorsement late.
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« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2022, 06:14:54 PM »

He'd have been creamed and embarrassed.
Why do people have to make politics sound so sexual all the time...
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« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2022, 12:12:39 PM »

He would do well with rural whites and blacks, but Hillary would obliterate him with Hispanics.
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« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2022, 12:59:17 PM »

He would do well with rural whites and blacks, but Hillary would obliterate him with Hispanics.

2020 for Hispanics was more a positive reception of the Sanders campaign that year than a condemnation of Biden in particular. In this 2016, Hispanics would more likely be split to some degree between Clinton and Biden depending on what stances a Biden campaign took on issues affecting the communities and how much outreach it would do. I see Clinton more firmly rejecting the Obama administration in this scenario and maybe even pivoting to attacking Biden on the 2014 immigration crisis: she would certainly dominate with Cuban-Americans, but not necessarily Mexican-Americans. Or maybe Sanders would have an opening with the neoliberal wing potentially being tugged to the right.
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