2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I've gotta say this. [View all]nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)... of that I have little doubt. Really. We're not used to dealing with this type of voter. As ugly as '08 was on this site, it was missing this particular voter demographic because they were off doing what they normally do ... voting third party. The vast majority of independents out there are the ones that just say they're independent because they don't want to be labeled, but they always end up voting for one of the two candidates. But this third party type ... they were always going to go for an extremist, which is why Bernie exploited the Democrats, a party he's brazenly criticized for years, to run.
I get we need to pull a lot of folks into the fold, but I think some of these people don't even qualify as a lost cause because they were never a cause to begin with.