(April 19, 2025 at 4:19 pm)Alan V Wrote:(April 19, 2025 at 4:12 pm)Belacqua Wrote: There is strong evidence that the candidate preferred by the majority of Democrats in the primary election didn't get the nomination because more conservative Democrat officials didn't like him.
As a Democrat, I consider that a cynical assessment. After all, before the other Democrats dropped out after South Carolina, they were splitting the Democratic voters between them.
As an independent, it strikes me as fairly plausible. Sanders had a small but vocal base here in Central Texas. While I doubt they voted for Trump en masse, I'm sure at least a few did -- and more to the point, many sat out the polling altogether.
